5G Remote Driving: Ericsson Unveils Live Teledrive Technology at MWC 2023

Imagine this. You are ready to go somewhere but overwhelmed by the parking issues when an unoccupied electric vehicle arrives at your doorstep magically and all you have to do is, start driving it to your destination. Sounds lovely, right?

This may soon become a reality, all thanks to Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom (DT), and Teledriving Company Vay’s cutting-edge concept of 5G remote driving. This concept is set to become one of the key highlights at MWC 2023 in Barcelona.

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How Does Remote Driving Work?

A customer takes control of the vehicle but in reality, it will be driven remotely by a professionally trained teledriver from a teledrive center. Teledriving Company Vay works with redundant mobile networks and is used to combating network woes. If one network connection is insufficient, you can count on the signal via another network.

Features of Remote Driving:

• Detect network congestion in advance.
• Stabilize latency.
• Avoid packet loss

It ‘is a significant use case proof point for L4S (Low Latency Low Loss Scalable), key technology for high-quality, latency-critical applications. It enables consistent low latency in challenging radio conditions such as network congestion’, Ericsson mentioned in its blog.  L4S is part of Ericsson’s Time-Critical Communication capabilities.

Vay’s Affordable, Door-to-Door Mobility Service

Since October 2022, the companies came together and began implementing and testing L4S. Vay’s vision is to ‘launch a sustainable, affordable, door-to-door mobility service’ with the help of remotely driven cars. The service is starting in Germany and US. This partnership will make Vay the first European company to drive a driverless car on public roads.

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The demonstration at Fira Gran Via during MWC 2023 Barcelona, will showcase a teledriver remotely driving a vehicle in Berlin from the teledrive station in Barcelona. The operated car in Berlin optimized with 5G managed latency using L4S will be visible in a livestream onsite.

Thomas von der Ohe, co-founder and CEO of Vay, says:

“L4S can bring fundamental improvements to Vay’s teledrive technology. This feature makes it possible to detect network congestion in advance, stabilize latency and avoid packet loss. The main advantage of L4S is the improvement in utilizing network capacity and therefore keeping quality of data transmission permanently at its best possible level – while decreasing the level of network redundancy. Additionally, by reducing the amount of networks needed per car, we can lower costs while increasing our service area coverage, also in more rural areas. This brings Vay one step closer towards its goal of a sustainable door-to-door mobility service at large scale.”

Kaniz Mahdi, SVP Technology Architecture & Innovation, Deutsche Telekom, while speaking about driverless mobility service says that:

“Demonstrating the quality of experience benefits of L4S for Vay’s teledriving technology brings us closer to the era of driverless mobility services at scale. L4S, network slicing, and other advanced features in the 5G toolbox will play a crucial role in enabling new and innovative services for consumers and businesses.”

Final Thoughts

All in all, we firmly believe Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom, and Vay’s partnership can truly highlight L4S’s potential to improve the quality and safety of remote driving. In the future, the companies plan to expand by imbibing autonomous driving functions. With this innovative concept, the era of remote driving safely and securely in real-time with the help of 5G connectivity shows tremendous potential to transform the existing mobility services.