Smart Logistics and Future Industry will move into Herøya this autumn. Yara uses Telenor's 5G pilot network to test digital logistics and loading operations in the industrial park.

In collaboration with Yara, Telenor has established 5G in the industrial park used in the EU's flagship project «5G Solutions», and for Industry 4.0 projects.

Input to Europe's 5G road map
Together with 23 other international players, Yara, Telenor and NTNU are three Norwegian partners who are helping to realize Europe's 5G vision, a roadmap for how 5G networks can contribute to developing the industry of the future and smart ports in practice.

Over the next two years, Yara will conduct a series of tests of 5G networks and equipment, involving users in the field at Herøya. They will test, among other things, coverage, download and upload speeds, delays and other elements that will clarify whether 5G is a good choice for the future, now that the next industrial revolution, Industry 4.0, is on the way.

Operators perform user tests
Two men in white helmet with mobile device at hand testing
Out and about testing, Arve Haavik, IT security expert and Stig Myrland, Manager Process Data. Photo: Ole Bjørn Ulsnæs.

Soon, logistics operators in Yara Porsgrunn will have a tablet in hand with systems connected to Telenor's 5G network.

"We start by testing the use of tablets, and gradually we expand to more areas of use within logistics functions here at Herøya", Arve Haavik and Stig Myrland say. "A number of field tests will be carried out. Operators, technology experts and other users of the equipment will test usability, Cyber security and how the systems connected to Telenor's 5G network work in different operations."

The testing is carried out in close collaboration with TietoEVRY's developers. "They have developed the systems that now communicate across people, machines and equipment in real time," Haavik and Myrland say.

EVRY was chosen as the supplier of an IT solution for fully automatic data flow for the Yara Birkeland project a year and a half ago. They are now working on digitizing the workflow which today is based on email, fax and telephone.