Senior Cork IT researcher, Mark Roddy, is guest speaker at the inaugural Smart Health conference being held at the W5 Arena in Belfast this coming Thursday the 17th.Mark will present his current research, looking at next generation tele-medicine for emergency ambulance services over 5G cellular networks. This research is part of an EU funded H2020 project, that is developing a number of network slicing prototypes for three vertical sectors – Smart City, eHealth and Smart Grid.
Mark heads up the eHealth vertical use case and he will talk about “How next generation 5G cellular networks are likely to impact the delivery of pre-hospital Emergency Services.” The fifteen partner SliceNet project started in June 2017 and has an EU contribution budget of €8 million over three years.