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An Economic Assessment of the Contributions of 5G into the Railways and Energy Sectors

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This paper presents an economical assessment of the benefits of introducing 5G technologies into pilot use cases pertaining to the railroad transportation and energy sectors. For each of the pilots, undergone by EFACEC Engenharia e Sistemas and EFACEC Energia, respectively, under the scope of the H2020 5Growth project, the expenditure and benefits expected from introducing 5G capabilities over their on-going operations are evaluated regarding the Portugal case, and are also scaled to assess the European-wide case. The main objective of the study summarized in this paper is to understand if solutions proposed by the H2020 5Growth project, and 5G as a whole, are also advantageous from an economic point of view. The results of the techno-economic analysis reported in this paper show, on a European scale, millions of euros saved by the different stakeholders involved in the deployment of 5G solutions.

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  2. H2020 5G-Transformer - 5G Mobile Transport Platform for Verticals - http://5G-transformer.eu/

  3. H2020 5G-EVE - 5G European Validation platform for Extensive trials - http://5G-eve.ey/

  4. H2020 5G-VINNI - 5G Verticals Innovation Infrastructure - http://5g-vinni.eu/

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This work is funded by the European Commission through the H2020 project 5GROWTH (Project ID 856709) and supported by the project “Evolution of mobile telecommunications beyond 5G” funded by Huawei and supported by the 5GAINer - 5G+AI Networks Reliability Center - a joint initiative between Huawei, Instituto de Telecomunicações and Universidade de Aveiro.

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This work is funded by the European Commission through the H2020 project 5GROWTH (Project ID 856709) and supported by the project “Evolution of mobile telecommunications beyond 5G” funded by Huawei and supported by the 5GAINer - 5G+AI Networks Reliability Center - a joint initiative between Huawei, Instituto de Telecomunicações and Universidade de Aveiro.

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  1. Instituto de Telecomunicações, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal

    Daniel Corujo, José Quevedo & Rui L. Aguiar

  2. EFACEC Portugal, Via de Francisco Sá Carneiro, Apartado 3078, 4471-907, Moreira da Maia, Portugal

    Paulo Paixão & Hugo Martins

  3. Altice Labs S.A., Rua Eng. Jose Ferreira Pinto Basto, Aveiro, Portugal

    Álvaro Gomes

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Corujo, D., Quevedo, J., Aguiar, R.L. et al. An Economic Assessment of the Contributions of 5G into the Railways and Energy Sectors. Wireless Pers Commun 129, 71–94 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-022-10086-5

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