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Safeguarding Communities with 5G
Reliable communication is crucial for emergency service teams. Mission-critical broadband allows public safety personnel and command centers to communicate effectively, securely transmit vital information and enhance situational awareness during emergencies
The Importance of Network Reliability
In emergencies, the network’s quality can greatly affect response success. To maintain high standards of public safety, services like police, fire departments, and EMS are moving to more dependable communication networks.
5G Network for Emergency Services
For Law Enforcement
5G technology provides law enforcement with enhanced communication tools, real-time data sharing, and improved situational awareness, enabling officers to respond more effectively to emergencies.
For Fire Departments
Fire departments benefit from 5G’s high-speed, low-latency network, which supports real-time video streaming, advanced location tracking, and better coordination during firefighting operations.
For EMS
Emergency medical services (EMS) can leverage 5G to access critical patient data on the go, use telemedicine capabilities, and ensure faster, more accurate response times to medical emergencies.
For Disaster Management
5G technology enhances disaster management efforts by enabling real-time damage assessment through drones, supporting IoT sensors for early warning systems, and ensuring rapid, coordinated responses during natural disasters like earthquakes and floods.
Our Solution
5G Slice Management System for Public Safety | 5G SlimanCes
- Critical workers and devices, like IoT, require specific quality of service from the mobile network, characterized by data speed, latency, jitter, and security.
- Our solution integrates "5G Network-Slicing" and "5G Network-APIs" (both unique to 5G-SA technology) using innovative machine-learning algorithms.
- Our platform, 5G Slimances, maps the workload from public safety personnel into a suitable network slice and onboards the critical user into this slice until the critical event has concluded. This provides guaranteed and differentiated quality of service to critical users who depend on the mobile network to deliver essential services.
Benefits
- Long-Term, Cost-Effective Solution
5G Slimances provides a cost-effective alternative for Critical and Emergency Networks, handling workloads more efficiently than legacy systems.
- Enhanced Security Features
5G Stand-Alone technologies offer built-in security features like Concealed Identity, Confidentiality, and Integrity protection.
- Smooth Transition and Integration
5G Slimances streamlines migration from legacy systems to a secure, high-bandwidth network over a 5G slice, reducing integration complexity with open architecture.
- Cost Reduction and Efficiency
The platform’s “One slice fits all” approach supports Critical Networks and eMBB 5G users, cutting OPEX by 40% with a “Pay as you use” policy.
- Revenue Generation & New Use Cases
MNOs can generate revenue from their 5G SA network, enabling advanced use cases with high-bandwidth, low-latency, and high-reliability features, while prioritizing QoS in LTE/4G where 5G coverage is unavailable.
How Our Solution Works
Our 5G SlimanCes platform utilizes advanced technologies and machine-learning algorithms to ensure critical devices and users receive the connectivity they need during emergencies
5G SlimanCes tracks the cellular location of critical devices using the 3GPP specified location-reporting event-exposure API. The SSACS (application function) subscribes to the 5G-Core-NEF to monitor changes in users’ cellular locations, ensuring up-to-date location tracking for critical devices.
By applying a set of novel ML algorithms, 5G Slimances creates a “heat-map” of critical devices. This heat-map helps predict when and where critical devices are likely to be deployed, enabling proactive
resource allocation and improved response readiness.
To guarantee connectivity for critical devices, 5G SlimanCes pre-allocates slots in an appropriate 5G network slice based on the predicted locations of critical events. This ensures that essential services are prioritised and receive the necessary bandwidth and low latency.
In the event of a critical situation, 5G SlimanCes can take pre-emptive action by freeing up slice resources from the affected location. This involves removing other eMBB users (mobile consumers) from the slice if
required, to accommodate critical devices and ensure uninterrupted service.
If critical devices cannot be immediately onboarded into a slice due to resource constraints, 5G SlimanCes implements an “intelligent queue.” This system ensures that critical devices are onboarded as soon as space in the slice becomes available, maintaining service continuity during high-demand periods.
Once the critical event has concluded or the critical users have moved out of the given cellular locations, 5G SlimanCes dynamically removes the critical devices from the slice. This action frees up resources, making them available for other users and maintaining overall network efficiency.
Our platform provides prioritized and guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) for 80% of critical devices, users, and IoT applications. This ensures that essential services receive the highest level of connectivity and performance during critical events.
How do we start?
We don’t presume that your network must already be fully prepared for seamless integration with our solution. Instead, we’re eager to align with you at any point in your 5G evolution. Whether you’re at the initial stages of developing commercial 5G slice products or on the verge of their launch, we stand ready to provide comprehensive support. Leveraging our deep expertise in 5G networks, we’re committed to helping you maximize the benefits of 5G slicing for your specific needs.