Tay Cities Deal Tay5G Programme
Delivery is now complete with business and university partners of the £2 million Tay5G programme of 12 projects of diverse innovative applications supported by 5G mobile communications. 5G is relevant to virtually every sector from entertainment to manufacturing, healthcare to construction, fashion to automated transport. It is especially great for enabling advanced communications, tools and experiences like immersive (VR, AR and XR), virtual production, automation and the Internet of Things that is a key tool for Smart Cities, places, buildings and business, industrial and welfare operations.
To find out more please get in touch. Email tay5g@dundeecity.gov.uk or call +44 (0)1382 432483.
Tay Cities Region Deal
The project is part of Tay Cities Region Deal that is a partnership of the Councils of Angus, Dundee, Fife and Perth & Kinross. It is funded by the Scottish and UK Governments and supported projects for verticals that also reflect regional strengths and priorities.
The programme delivered on the concept that by encouraging and supporting engagement with 5G, it's easier to understand what it offers. In turn, this helps to generate demand. So that telecoms companies respond with faster commercial roll-out.
We worked with partners and stakeholders including the Scottish Futures Trust and regional Councils, Universities – Abertay, Dundee and St. Andrews and colleges – Dundee & Angus, Fife and Perth UHI. We also worked closely with the Scotland 5G Centre and Folk Consulting.
Outcomes & Benefits Realisation
The project has delivered outcomes including:
- Use of Tay Cities Deal investment to lever business relationships of great value to regional strategic aims, reputation and inward investment.
- Working with key regional stakeholders to develop use case trials to deliver new products, processes or services, showcasing the benefits of 5G.
- Early stimulation towards job creation of jobs attributable to 5G and the wider creative, digital, technology ecosystem exploiting 5G. (According to a Deloitte report, 5G will help to generate between 60,000 and 160,000 across Scotland).
- Sustainable business growth through companies developing, testing and accelerating delivery of products, applications and innovation.
- Growth of talent pool through attraction of skills and engagement with skills development to respond to the opportunities arising from 5G, 5G supply chain and 5G enabled sectors and evidence to support skills development facilities (such as at MSIP).
Inclusive Growth - The 5G Effect: Jobs, Skills, Business
Diverse & Inclusive
Inclusive Growth is a key focus across jobs, skills and business for individuals and SMEs. We welcome collaboration and discussion with a wide range of organisations across Scotland and the UK to raise awareness of opportunities and benefits for diverse client groups and networks.
Innovative applications are adding to the growing need for skills and services across telecoms, creative, digital and technology and diverse sectors like fashion, energy, entertainment, construction, connected communities, agriculture and healthcare. These also offer significant scope for public and private sectors to embrace diversity, inclusivity and equality.
5G connectivity and applications for many sectors need diverse skills and services to support service delivery, training, marketing, R&D, manufacturing, media production and more.
The emergence of fifth-generation and now also sixth-generation mobile communications technology, is revolutionising industrial, public service and commercial landscapes, presenting signficant opportunities. As deployment progresses, the potential for a faster, high-capacity, and low-latency wireless connection opens the door to transformative applications for service delivery, marketing, training, manufacturing and media production.
This is generating growing need for skills and services across telecoms, creative, digital and technology and diverse sectors like fashion, energy, entertainment, construction, connected communities, agriculture and healthcare. These offer significant scope for public and private sectors to embrace diversity, inclusivity and equality.
We invite you to take a look at more about 5G and just some of the jobs, skills and business opportunities. Going forward we will highlight findings on approaches to development including collaboration by SMEs.