With great 5G speed, comes great opportunity. Elisa is now co-creating 5G services with startups. One important method is through the 5G Co-Creation Challenge. So far, every team selected has created very unique 5G service, among which three teams stood out and made it to the final!
The Elisa 5G Co-Creation Challenge is a competition where we challenge startups, researchers and corporations to build new services requiring 5G.
The focus can be either consumers or B2B customers, but the service must utilise one of the following core attributes of 5G:
1. Massive Internet of Things.
2. Ultra fast mobile broadband
3. Critical and very low latency communication.
The more dependent a service on one or more of these core attributes, the more relevant we will find as elgible for this competition.
On August 13th, we kicked off the competition with a 5G Futures Workshop, through which nine teams mapped out their 5G plans together with Elisa business stakeholders and facilitators.
On September 16, each team presented their demos and three were selected to the final (according to the order of first alphabet):
Domos has the "gamer first" concept. It is a real-time application prioritization algorithm that can ensure premium connectivity for specific customer use cases like online gaming, HD streaming or video conferencing. “Gaming First” solution can guarantee great online gaming experiences over Wi-Fi with low latency for the whole gaming session.
Exove design created a concept for real time quality control, that can be utilized on construction sites. Combine imaging (helmet camera) and IoT data from sensors to detect faults to automatically add these faults to the existing management system and schedule the fixing.
Varjo has realized and kept improving the video streaming technique over their human eye resolution VR-1 and XR-1 headsets. They showed the high relevance between the 5G network and virtual reality. They are now creating VR solutions utilizing 5G with Elisa.
The three finalists mentioned above are awarded 4,000 Euros each to carry out further experimentation before the final during Slush. The final winning team will be announced during Slush and awarded with 25,000 euro pilot, as well as a chance to demo at MWC 2020.
MAY 24
The challenge is announced and submission of entries starts.
JUNE 23 @ 23:59
The submission of entries ends.
JULY 1
The chosen participating teams are informed.
AUGUST 13
Co-Creation begins with Co-Creation workshop day.
SEPTEMBER 16
Semi-final pitching. Three finalists are announced - Domos, Exove and Varjo!
NOVEMBER 20-22
Three finalists will pitch during Slush 2019, and the winner announced. Pilot project begins shortly after.
Lifemote predicts problems in home WiFi service before the customer even knows there i. The solution not only predicts potential issues but can also identify customers that will be affected by the problem. This way the service provider has a chance to ensure the correct resources and response to a customers problem or even to solve a problem before it becomes visible to the customer.
See video below: