In the Adlershof Technology Park in the southeast of Berlin, one of the largest of its kind in Germany with more than 1,200 companies, 5G is now also to move in. (Picture: Technology Park Adlershof)
5G is to move into the Adlershof Technology Park. However, support is needed on the campus to network telecommunications, energy supply, urban infrastructure, mobility, production, logistics and buildings, as the following example shows.

We are in the year 2020 A.D. All industries are pushing networking with 5G and its advantages. All industries? No! Unrelenting activists do not stop advancing the telecommunications infrastructure. Some experts from the company Wista are also committed to the issue of telecommunications infrastructure: In the Adlershof Technology Park, 5G is to open up new branches of industry and develop innovative technologies so that companies can position themselves with their products on the market.

The Wista company aims to create the technological framework for economic growth in the Adlershof Technology Park. In the southeast of Berlin, an area of 4.2 km² has established one of the best (inter)national addresses for high technology with more than 1,200 companies. Resident companies, scientific institutions and universities concentrate on the fields of photonics and optics, photovoltaics and renewable energies, microsystems and materials, information technology (IT) and media, as well as biotechnology and the environment.

5G building automation as an innovation inventory

The relevance of 5G in the Adlershof Technology Park is essential for Wista: after all, the company wants to ensure an efficient environment for cooperation between science and industry to accelerate innovation. “Over the past decades, we have built up a special infrastructure consisting of laboratories for biotech, optics and semiconductor companies – an absolute key factor for mutual success,” says Roland Sillmann, CEO of Wista Management GmbH, reflecting on the approach.

„Companies using 5G early on will have a real advantage and great growth opportunities. As soon as the first companies start using 5G, they will give impulses to other companies to use 5G. Start-ups in particular will benefit enormously.“

Roland Sillmann, CEO of Wista Management GmbH

His absolute core task is to offer the resident institutes and companies the best possible conditions for their growth in order to achieve their individual goals. To face the constantly changing conditions and challenges and to plan the measures as a site operator helps the resident companies to concentrate on their core competences.

In the last ten years, the rapidly increasing demand for IT infrastructure has played a major role in this process. Innovative products can only be created in a digital world if companies are located in an appropriately equipped environment. Wista secured its first campus license in Berlin for the Adlershof Technology Park at the beginning of 2020. The company is currently evaluating the possibilities of implementing the 5G campus network for research and development purposes.

Networking as a technological feel-good ambience

The 5G mobile communications standard is to become a permanent fixture in the Berlin Technology Park Adlershof, which will act as a nucleus for growth, impetus and also new business models.

An app that displays vacancies in workplaces and rooms when entering buildings would be conceivable, for example. Or applications that activate ventilation when the CO2 content of the room air rises due to high occupancy. Rooms without occupancy would automatically be less heated and ventilated. Work processes could also be optimized if a tracking system were to record the distances travelled by people in the building. Cleaning staff would be informed which offices need to be cleaned and when.

As much as some things are still at the idea stage, the basic approach is already groundbreaking. In large cities, the expansion of the 5G network is a clear trend. The 5G expansion depends technologically, for example, on the location of the antennas and their number. Furthermore, the migration of existing systems to 5G must be considered, as far as this is technically feasible.

“For us, the 5G mobile phone standard offers a great opportunity. We assume that the business models of companies in almost all sectors of the economy will adapt to 5G,” says Sillmann.

Tip: Keynote on 5G in the Technology Park

At a virtual conference of the US telecommunications group Verizon on 24 November, Roland Sillmann, CEO at Wista der Management GmbH, will give a keynote speech on the role of private 5G in business life using the Adlershof Technology Park as an example. Here he will highlight both the opportunities for growth and business success that the 5G infrastructure offers local companies. Under the following link you can register for the event for free: “5G-ready: Built Right for Business with Verizon

 

Parts of this article were translated with www.deepl.com.