2021 Science for Technological Innovation (SfTI) National Science Challenge Grant

The Industrial AI Team at the University of Auckland was awarded the prestigious SfTI seed grant over two years to advance time-sensitive industrial control technologies in a 5G environment, in collaboration with Victoria University of Wellington, Spark New Zealand, and Nokia.

Project Title

Ultra-reliable time-sensitive industrial control in the cloud

Overview

As the momentum of 5G builds, a range of applications will be developed — including real-time cloud-controlled industrial systems and self-driving vehicles. The need is for 5G technology to provide robust and time-sensitive data transmission over wide area networks (WANs).

This project, led by University of Auckland researchers, aims to design a data communication scheduling algorithm and supporting streaming technologies. This will enable time-sensitive transmission of control data for multiple devices over WANs, ensuring that cloud-controlled robots can operate safely and precisely.