Airbus demonstrates progress made in the PRIORITY innovation research program

Airbus highlighted hybrid solutions advantages and features during a demonstation event dedicated to the contributors of the Finnish government-funded research program in Oulu between the 28th of September, and 2nd of October. The aim of the event was to demonstrate the progress made by the twenty Priority program participants towards the future of critical communications.

The two-year Priority research program for innovation in the field of critical communications funded by Business Finland -the Finnish government organisation for innovation funding- was launched in August last year. The program focuses on finding answers to various key research questions in the fields of 5G security, Artificial Intelligence (AI), rural area coverage, and quality of service in hybrid networks as well as improving critical communications and situational awareness for public safety users.

Based on a real-life scenario of public safety operations, Airbus’ Tactilon Agnet solution was in the limelight, and was used to present mission-critical collaboration through a deployable 5G network for the very first time, showing the tools’ capability of integrating and delivering video from external sources. The Tactical bubble itself is composed of a mast, a core network, and at least one base station. It can be used in local areas where the network connection is sparse.

Video data collected by drones was integrated with Tactilon Agnet for the occasion, and delivered to users via the tools’ collaboration capabilities. Thanks to these new innovative features, the users are able to enrich the situational awareness of both first responders in the field, and the commander of the operations in the command and control rooms, in real-time, and with the required level of security and reliability.