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The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has claimed a series of successes from the Liverpool 5G Testbed project for using the technology in health and social care.
It said the project – led by the University of Liverpool under the DCMS £200 million 5G Testbed and Trials Programme – has shown that healthcare applications and devices can deliver substantial cost savings to providers and improved health and quality of life to users.
DCMS highlighted a group of use cases of 5G, including for the CGA Simulation social gaming app, which allows users to meet with online to chat and play games. Of the 49 who took part there was over a 25% reduction in those who often or sometimes felt lonely, and a better quality of life equated to over £8,000 per person.
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A health, social care and education project will offer participating residents of Kensington in Liverpool free access to its 5G mesh network, which it believes is the largest of its kind in Europe.
Liverpool 5G Create, which is funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s £200 million 5G Testbeds and Trials Programme and led by the University of Liverpool, has built its own high speed network using unlicensed spectrum covering the area. It said this allows it to offer free connectivity to participants in its work.
The project is designed to support interactive health and care services, so it has built a mesh network which relies on line of sight with similar levels of incoming and outgoing capacity rather than using base stations designed mainly to send data. It has also built a ‘digital twin’ of Kensington in working out how to construct this network, which includes 120 outdoor sites and is connected to Liverpool City Council’s network, one of