The first FIDAL Open Call took place from 15th September and 20th December 2023.
The Open Call provided applicants the opportunity to enter in the FIDAL project receiving up to 250.000 euros per application. The total available budget for the first Open Call was of 4 Million euros.
Out of the 92 applications received, FIDAL has selected 19 winners. Scroll through the table below to learn more about the 19 projects that have been selected
PROJECTS
PARTNERS
PARTNERS WEBSITES
B5G-MOBITRUST - Enhancing Public Safety by Leveraging the Mobitrust Situational Awareness Ecosystem for Policing Large-Scale Events
B5G-MOBITRUST trials will expand the FIDAL Málaga Testbed with edge nodes and mobile Command and Control Centres. These trials aim to test and demonstrate the FIDAL 5G and B5G infrastructures in five real-world events, involving over one million people, to validate and promote disaster response capabilities.
FIDAL-VLC: 5G Robot Race
The FIDAL-VLC project implements a beyond 5G testbed for remote driving applications, demonstrated by a use case that features an immersive race between two mobile robots with AI-based obstacle avoidance system, remotely driven through a 5G private network at UPV’s outdoor velodrome, with cockpits located indoors at the Immersive Communications Lab displaying a cyber-physical twin-based user interface
SecurEye StreamSense: On-Demand AI for Real-Time Video Security 
The SecurEye StreamSense project, led by Secmotic, will be deployed at the University of Málaga and central Málaga with Telefónica. It uses 5G video cameras to capture and transmit real-time high-definition video data, analyzed by AI-driven apps for enhanced public safety and emergency response. The project aims to revolutionize security through automatic real-time incident detection and classification
5G EVEARA LiveStream and 5G EVEARA Music Co-Creation
5G EVEARA will be working on two Use Cases:
Use Case 1: 5G EVEARA LiveStream - Enhanced Live Music Streaming with 5G: which aims to develop a live music streaming service that utilizes FIDAL's 5G network capabilities to deliver high-fidelity audio with ultra-low latency to users.
Use Case 2: 5G EVEARA Music Co-Creation - Real-Time Collaborative Music Production which aims to validate the use of 5G technology in enabling real-time, distributed music production and to quantify the benefits in terms of production efficiency and creative outcomes.
EFFECT
EFFECT will deploy a system/service for the Early detection of fires based on in-situ sensors and an effective management of events by responding teams. The trial aims to exploit the evolved 5G technology in these challenging contexts, marking a leap forward in connectivity for fire detection systems in critical environments.
5G-SDA project : 5G private networking for low latency, time critical and high bandwidth driving training applications. 
The 5G-SDA project aims to provide FIDAL network with a pilot infrastructure, a track testbed for driver training and exams. AI-assisted performance assessment tool, leveraging on 5G network, coupled with a new AR tool that will offer real-time feedback on driving behavior, specifically gaze direction, using smart glasses and other sensors, will improve driver training, infrastructure, traffic management, and road safety, benefiting vulnerable road users and reducing accidents.
MC-SEAL 
Mission Critical SEAL as enabler of AI-based emergency coordination and decision-making
MC-SEAL Trial explores new ways of exposing 3GPP compliant Mission Critical Services (MCX) in a Service Enabler Architecture Layer (SEAL) approach. The MC service-based SEAL substratum will be exposed to different Vertical Application Layers (VAL) developed by Nuuk Technologies SL, for AI-based emergency coordination and decision-making. Such an approach not only facilitates access to MCX technology for end-users, but also enables interaction between different services and reinforces synergies. This framework can nurture and grow, resulting in solutions of greater value..
AI-HOLOCOM 
Affordable and Immersive Holographic Communication service (AI-HOLOCOM), aims to provide portable and easy-to-access holographic experiences relying on an affordable setup and leaning on the features of beyond 5G networks to compensate for other technical limitations.
CORAL - Consortium of SMEs fOr 5G tRiALs
The project involves two key activities: 1. the integration of the CORAL Testing Facility into the FIDAL Test Bed, featuring Linux-based servers, 5G gNodeB emulators, and advanced virtualization tools (OSM, OpenStack, Kubernetes), 2. the implementation of two use cases: i) remote robot control via Augmented Reality to manage a warehouse robot remotely, ii) urban flood alert system using a network of IoT rainfall sensors to monitor and predict floods across a large area.
RescueSync - Beyond 5G Emergency Coordination 
RescueSync envisions revolutionizing emergency response and Public Protection and Disaster Relief coordination (PPDR) through the power of Augmented Reality (AR). By leveraging the capabilities of Beyond 5G, RescueSync aims to provide a seamless, real-time, and immersive communication platform that bridges the gap between on-site field officers and Command and Control (C2) operators....
Magos Bakri Balloon Placement Training (MBBPT)
DADOLTI: Drone-based Automated Distribution Overhead Lines and Towers Inspection through 5G-enabled hierarchical inference in the drone-captured video feed.
DADOLTI uses Hierarchical Inference (HI) to combine cloud and edge computing for cost-effective, secure predictive maintenance in distribution grids. As drones move, dynamic server allocation for the DL model will be managed by leveraging the decentralized 5G architecture and instantiating a UPF instance on an edge server near the relevant gNBs.
B5GVN
B5GVideoNet (B5GVN) is a B5G/6G platform for providing live video uplink & sharing services for media sports and news creators. Live video is the corner stone for sports and news productions. 5GVideoNet explores the leading remote production workflows as a service over B5G and cloud environments. These include remote on and off site productions using bonded multilink for UL and DL, over B5G NPN, slices, Edge computing and network exposure technologies.
TiFi 
Tactile Internet Fidelity over FIDAL for Bilateral Teleoperation
Bilateral teleoperation is the process of efficiently carrying out the operator’s action in a smooth, secured fashion at a remote end, for example, operating a remote robotic device using a haptic device. Through TiFi, we aim to combine the best capabilities/features that the next generation wireless network (5G and beyond) can offer along with the digital twin at the local operator end to achieve high tactile internet (TI) fidelity, i.e. to make TI-enabled teleoperation over long distances a reality.
E5GForTCA
Enterprise 5G for Time Critical Applications
It will enhance the capabilities of the Norwegian Facility within the FIDAL initiative by undertaking the deployment and field testing of programmable, fully automated private 5G networks for Time Critical Applications.
AI ARMORS 
Assisted V2X time cRitical coMmunicatiOns for enhanced Road Safety
Set-up and carry out experiments related to V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) communications for road safety use case by enabling the involved stakeholders in road traffic environments to communicate and synchronize so as to avoid accidents or manage them in the best possible way using on site information from sensors and cameras and employing AI/ML techniques.
VideoGee 
Personalized VIDEO summarization over 5G infrastructure for an Enhanced user Experience in event streaming
Personalised VIDEO summarization over a 5G backbWithin VideoGee, LiveMedia aims to further advance its AI services and integrate them in the PNET 5G testbed. The developed AI services will analyse video, audio and text streams from live presentation. Users asking for a video summary will indicate their time availability and interests, whereas a higher level AI service will take this information into account, combine it with the video indexer and generate a personalized video summary. The user will see AR overlays providing explanation and context on each summarized snippet, on near zero latency and delay.one for an Enhanced user Experience.
Isafeco
In the ISAFECO use case, the "Stream Selector Network Application" developed by the FIDAL consortium will be utilized. This network application will provide a detailed Operational Picture for the Incident Commander and First Responder (FR) support teams. It will consolidate data from various video-capturing sources into a unified Common Operational Picture displayed on the Incident Commander’s (IC) screen. Additionally, ISAFECO will enhance the Stream Selector NApp to equip the IC with a dashboard that features video selection and routing capabilities.
SwarmCatcher
The SwarmCatcher project aims to deploy an advanced anti-drone and surveillance infrastructure, by utilizing AI techniques and 5G communication. SwarmCatcher incorporates a variety of sensors: optical/thermal cameras, RF detectors, and acoustic sensors, integrated with AI techniques for threat detection and classification. The system supports real-time situational awareness and decision-making for end-users such as law enforcement agencies and emergency responders. SwarmCatcher seeks to enhance public safety, environmental monitoring, and critical infrastructure protection..
