Rural Community Accelerator

Overview

Project partners Vodafone have deployed a new base station in Worth Matravers. The project will use new 5G mobile services to unlock social and commercial benefits for the area.

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Objectives

This research area has developed the social and economic case for rural 5G deployment by mobile network operators, considering additional use cases from leisure and tourism to education.

In addition the project explored the barriers to the roll out of telecoms infrastructure in very rural locations, including planning consent challenges and challenges around the provision of both power and backhaul connectivity for very rural locations.

The project has provided a new site at Worth Matravers which is providing improved 3G and 4G connectivity as well as the very latest in 5G technology. Here we explored two specific use cases:

  • Whether NBIoT connectivity can improve the monitoring of vulnerable individuals in their own homes
  • Whether higher speed 5G connectivity can be used as a viable alternative to fixed broadband connectivity

Delivered in collaboration with

Vodafone

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Other research areas

Connected Coast

This research area will focus on improving public coastal safety…

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Future of Food

We will be trialling uses of 5G connectivity in agriculture and aquaculture

Innovation Accelerator

Advanced mobile connectivity at the heart of Dorset Innovation Park