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Coming Soon – Liverpool 5G Showcase Event, 26th March 2019
The Liverpool 5G Testbed consortium have been working together for nearly a year now, and to celebrate that, and the approval of phase 2 of the project, we are holding a Showcase Event on 26th March 2019. The event will tell the story of the project’s first 12 months and lessons we’ve learned about adopting and…
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Digital and Culture Minister, Margot James, visits Liverpool 5G project volunteers at Kensington home
The Minister for Digital and Culture, Margot James, has been in Liverpool meeting project volunteers from Kensington, who are using 5G supported health devices and apps as part of the Liverpool 5G health and Social Care Project. The minister also met with members of the consortium who created IoT health technologies being trialled on our…
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Liverpool 5G consortium partners at international Global MBB Forum in London
Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care joined UK5G and the five other 5G testbeds at the 2018 Global MBB Forum at the ExCel in London this week. Our project leads Rosemary Kay, from eHealth Cluster, and Ann Williams, from Liverpool City Council, delivered a talk about the potential for 5G to positively disrupt how health and social…
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Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care’s Ann Williams wins Inside Housing Digital Leaders award
Liverpool 5G project lead, Ann Williams, has been named an Inside Housing Digital Leader 2018. She’s recognised for her hard work promoting digital solutions and IoT within the housing and social care sectors. Ann’s day job as Contracts and Commissioning Manager at Liverpool City Council, has seen her initiate a series of innovate city-wide projects…
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Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen!
3D simulation specialists, CGA Simulation, and tech SME, Digicredis are representing the Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care project at an international tech conference in Copenhagen. CGA Simulation won a place at the renowned ITS World Conference in Copenhagen as part of a competition run by Innovate UK. The Liverpool based tech company will represent…
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Ian Smith, DCMS Director of Testbed and Trials, visits the Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care
The Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care project enjoyed a visit from DCMS’s Director of Testbed and Trials this week. Ian Smith spent the day in Liverpool learning about the positive impact 5G technology could have on the health and social care sector. The Liverpool 5G project is demonstrating how 5G technology best supports the…
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Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care hosts visitors from South Korea
Liverpool 5G health and Social Care hosted an event at Sensor City this week to welcome visitors from a 5G consortium in South Korea. The South Korean group had come to Liverpool to learn about how the Liverpool 5G team have put together the largest 5G supported health and social care network in Europe. Throughout…
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Liverpool 5G explore how new and emerging technologies like 5G could impact cities and travel
Liverpool 5G spent a day finding out how emerging technologies like 5G, machine learning and machine to machine communications could impact Liverpool city centre and Liverpool’s transport systems. The Smart Mobility Event was hosted by the Liverpool Exhibition Centre and attended by a range of public and private sector organisations. Speakers included Innovate UK, The…
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eHealth Cluster and Liverpool City Council Council iNnovation Network Event
The success of projects like Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care, is dependent on care providers adopting new health technologies in their day-to-day work. The telehealth devices, supported by the 5G mesh network, have the potential to save care providers valuable time and resources. That’s why Liverpool’s eHealth Cluster has begun running a number of…
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We’re at Liverpool’s International Festival of Business!
Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care joined partner CGA Simulation at Liverpool’s International Festival of Business this week. Liverpool 5G exhibited products including digital video-pharmacy link device, Paman, and Defproc’s anti-loneliness device, Push to Talk. CGA Simulation were at the event to promote their 5G network planning tool, which allows people to plan a 5G…
