18 higher education centers and companies participate in the Campus 5G project to investigate and experiment with the new network.Four universities are already carrying out the first pilots of solutions for health, agriculture, safety and even training heavy machinery operators with virtual reality.After years of tests and tenders, today the main telecommunications companies in the country have the approval of the Comptroller for the deployment of the 5G network.For now, the research and experimentation is carried out by the academy, companies in the sector and startups, which are beginning to implement the first pilots of solutions in agriculture, health, security and intelligent monitoring, within the framework of the Campus 5G project.Last February, the Undersecretary of Telecommunications (Subtel) awarded the tender for four bands of the 5G network.The 3.5 GhZ band remained in the hands of Movistar, Entel and WOM;the AWS and 700 MHz WOM took it;and the 26 GHz one went to Claro, Entel and WOM.Of these, the three winners of the 3.5 GHz band published their decrees, with which they can start the construction and deployment of the network to market it within a maximum period of 18 months.5G is the fifth generation of mobile devices and networks, a high-speed wireless technology with low latency -network response time- that will allow a large number of devices to be connected in real time and will promote the massification and development of new technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), big data and machine learning.The undersecretary of Telecommunications, Francisco Moreno, explains that the technology will also benefit productive sectors such as agriculture-forestry, ports and the health area.For example, it will make it possible to monitor and analyze crops in real time, train crane operators in ports and in health with augmented reality, "telemedicine, the development of remote examinations and diagnoses, which will be of great importance, can be greatly improved." to make up for the lack of specialists in regions, mainly in extreme or isolated areas”.To promote the development of solutions, they created the 5G Campuses, an initiative between the Government and higher and technical study centers, which have experimental spectrum to investigate and experiment with the new network.18 academic entities and two research and technology transfer centers have already joined, which have the support of the companies that will operate 5G and technology companies that have equipped the laboratories.Of these, there are four operating laboratories at the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad Católica de Chile and Universidad de Concepción, and the rest will start operations this year and in early 2022.Some of the projects that are underway seek to leverage the 5G network to connect IoT sensors to monitor different variables in real time, in industries, agriculture, road and perimeter security, and in the health sector.In Claro's 5G laboratory and the UC Innovation Center that opened last August, the startup Health Tracker -which develops technological solutions for health- began 5G proofs of concept for its Lighthouse project.This initiative enables and connects electronic medical devices, through IoT, to monitor palliative care patients at home, who today receive care with face-to-face teams once a week. With 5G they seek to implement continuous monitoring, which adapts to the requirements of each patient."The solution we are developing transforms the patient's bed into an IoT device with 24 sensors that deliver different signals, changes in position, respiratory and heart rate, and temperature to interpret them in real time," says Fernando Moreno, founder of Health Tracker. .The entrepreneur points out that with 5G they will be able to connect more sensors to each patient and even monitor an entire patient unit.To do this, they are adapting their circuit to 5G and seek to test the solution in a real environment in the first half of 2022.The Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV) inaugurated its 5G campus in partnership with Nokia and Movistar at the beginning of October.They already have two projects underway, one with the startup Yoy Simulators and an academic initiative to monitor the drought in the region.Yoy Simulators focuses on enhancing people's learning through creative use of virtual reality.With it they carry out simulations and training for operators of different machinery that handle risk equipment in different industries, such as mining, construction or ports.Mauricio Rodríguez, academic and researcher at the PUCV, comments that the startup is testing how to use the 5G network in its solution, because "they want the simulation to be carried out remotely, without having to attend a specific installation," he says.The second project, led by Geography professor Roberto Chávez, focuses on monitoring the drought in La Campaña National Park, where they have installed a camera (Phenocam) that captures images of the area.They are currently conducting tests inside the campus to assess how the cameras react to 5G.The objective is to detect the necessary adjustments, so that once the network is operational at the regional level, they can scale the monitoring solution to different national parks, continuously and connected to the servers of the National Forestry Corporation (Conaf).At the University of Concepción (UdeC) they have two infrastructures around 5G.One is through the association with WOM, Campus 5G and it will be enabled in December.On the other hand, they have the 5G Laboratory -owned by the study house- product of the donation of the Chinese companies CICT and FiberHome.Jorge Pezoa, an academic from the UdeC department of electrical engineering, comments that the 5G Campus aims to bring technology closer to the university community or campus residents, since "it will allow new ideas and applications to emerge."In the 5G Laboratory they are piloting an intelligent agriculture platform, which allows a farmer to know in real time the status of their crops, irrigation, fertilizers, environmental variables, in addition to systematizing functions that are approximately executed in the field.The solution was developed in China, but it came with an out-of-the-box configuration that was fine-tuned in the lab.Now they are piloting the sending of the data captured by the sensors through 5G, added to tests of signal, speed, latency, reliability and indoor coverage of communications.Once the tests are finished, they will go to the Ñuble region and the pilots will start on the ground in the first half of 2022.The 5G campus of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile (FCFM) was inaugurated in December 2020, becoming the first operational laboratory, after an alliance with Entel and Ericsson.One of the most advanced projects is that of the company Safe Wave, with the support of academics from this faculty.The firm, which builds security zones through IoT and artificial intelligence, is dedicated to monitoring and detecting unwanted agents within protected zones, transmitting threat notifications to its clients.The academic and coordinator of the 5G Space at the FCFM, Cesar Azurdia, comments that the first pilot tests on campus have already been completed, where Safe Wave tested its systems and integrated them into the 5G network.“We realized that it was necessary to make some adjustments to carry out a new test, in which one of its motion sensors uploaded information via 5G and the image from the camera was also connected to the network, to optimize its system with the new connectivity. , have better quality images and monitor in real time”, explains the academic.In addition, he indicates that Beauchef professionals help them with the configuration of 5G connectivity and support them in algorithm problems associated with the new connection.The 5G campus of the Federico Santa María University in alliance with Movistar, is about to open, however, there are already projects that are waiting for the inauguration of the space to test their services, such as Sun and Play.The startup, founded by professors from that house of studies, aims to generate sensors to measure various environmental variables and transmit them to a central node that processes information to deliver it to the client.The project consists of capturing information from the roads, such as temperature, humidity or vibrations and concentrating it on a server, in which they will develop AI to process the data and deliver it to the entity that regulates the route so that it can make decisions or identify some type of abnormality. ."We are piloting our technology, testing the sensors in a controlled environment to calibrate them and see how they behave in terms of communication and energy storage," explains Marcelo Pérez, CEO of Sun and Play.Once the university has 5G operational, they will start a sensor network that is connected to that campus network, which they estimate could be in the first half of 2022.Fundadores Building, Badajoz No. 45, 10th floor. 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