Ultrahack’s Post

Privileged to share that our team MOD5G (consisting of Norshahida Saba, Amy Sokhna Sidibé, and myself) was selected as the 1st place winner during the Ultrahack #UnbreakableConnectivity Hackathon held at Nokia premise in Espoo. During the hackathon, we were proposing Modbus TCP simulator platform, which is able to perform scalable simulation of Modbus TCP traffic in 5G network in a scalable way, obtain latency measurement results, and adjust dynamically the network's quality of service on demand / QoD via Nokia's Network as Code API (NAC). This allows interested stakeholders, from network solution providers and end users to actually see how the 5G network behave and perform in handling Modbus TCP traffic under various conditions and obtain objective/quantifiable evidence in such conditions. Such simulation platform is fundamental as the industrial automation domain ("Industry 4.0") is looking to embrace wireless connectivity and distributed compute and automation (such as IEC 61499) architecture, where its crucial to obtain actual evidence of guarantee of timing performance in different scenarios to guide the stakeholders in making investment decision and the engineers who operate industry 4.0, industrial automation OT system that utilizes such network on how they should adjust the network to fit the need they are facing. It's important to have the possibility to observe and test accounting for widely-used communication protocol standard used in the domain such as Modbus, before the network is commissioned and even when the network is used and operational. Would like to appreciate the support of the mentors : Lauri Alho, Markus Heikkilä and also for the very supportive Ultrahack organizing team Madelin Kivikangas and her colleagues. Massive congratulations to the other teams participating during the hackathon, i was very impressed with all of the solutions presented - the level of creativity and quality is remarkable! Finally, would like to thank the colleagues in the Zero-SWARM and CloViC - Cloud Virtual Commissioning project, for the cumulative experience and inspiration that helps us to shape our thought during the hackathon.