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44 Focus | 5G networks Uncrewed shipping 5G is also being tested for controlling uncrewed ships remotely as they approach port. The world’s first 5G marine-focused testbed is the Smart Sound Connect Marine 5G Mobile Private Network deployed at Plymouth, on England’s south coast (see UST 47, December 2022/January 2023). It uses a 5G mesh network with relays on solar-powered buoys out at sea to provide 5G signals up to 20 miles offshore. Its uses live data from Smart Sound Connect on a digital twin platform to test autonomous ships for a certification and classification programme. The network is also being used to relay data back from sonar systems under the buoys to test UUVs. On the ground 5G networks rolling out for consumer applications also opens up opportunities for driverless cars. Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) chipsets are now supporting 5G networks in two ways. The Day 1 version of 5G-V2X offers life-saving situational awareness alerts, with the 5G network relaying data on the local situation to a vehicle. It is now being designed into passenger cars to give advance warning of hazards. Day 2 5G-V2X applications can use sensor data shared by other vehicles, and enable critical actions such as automatic braking. First samples are expected to be available this year. The new chipsets are designed to support all upcoming V2X requirements in dedicated short-range comms (DSRC) and C-V2X comms technologies, including the latest 5G-V2X (C-V2X Release 16/17/18) and IEEE 802.11bd next-generation DSRC. The chipsets concurrently support full backwards compatibility to any Day 1 vehicle, where each vehicle reports its own data using DSRC or LTE-V2X (C-V2X Release 14), with any Day 2 technology, where the vehicle also reports all the information detected by its sensors. Both radios use two antennas with full transmit and receive diversity. The chipsets will embed ultra-low- latency V2X hardware security February/March 2023 | Uncrewed Systems Technology The Day 1 version of 5G-V2X offers life-saving situational awareness alerts, with the 5G network relaying data on the local situation to a vehicle UAVs are used by network equipment supplier Nokia to monitor the performance of 5G networks (Courtesy of Rohde & Schwarz) 5G has been added to V2X chipsets to provide low-latency comms from kerbside infrastructure to driverless vehicles (Courtesy of Autotalks)