Overall goals, project goals and milestones The overall goal of the project is to strengthen innovation in the region’s SME to enable new services, products, methods and business models that are adapted to the changes in technology companies that mm-waves and 5G lead to. The project goal is to provide conditions for the region’s SME to be proactive in its technological development and its technical choices by providing test bed, demonstrator, data and models, for the use of mm waves and 5G in industrial automation. In order to achieve the goals, the project has set milestones: 1.Data and models for the use of radio in industrial environments, especially for mm waves and massive MIMOs, developed to be particularly relevant to SME in the region. 2. Models to compensate imperfections of different types of components for radio and millimetre waves. 3.Test bed for mm waves at HIG, which is relevant to the industrial participants of the project, which are SMEs. The instrumentation will be able to be taken to companies. 4. Demonstrators where wireless communication has been used for control within process automation and Mounting automation relevant to the region’s SME 5. An important technical part of the project is that new wireless communication should be as energy efficient as possible. It is also important that it is effective in the utilisation of radio frequencies. Wireless sensor networks are often used for environmental monitoring, which is a purpose that is considered in the project. 6. The scientific results will be presented at national and international conferences. The goal is 10 scientific publications in the project. How the regional business sector will participate in implementation Measurements in industrial environments will be done at companies in the region. Companies will have access to the test-bed for microwave components if set up at HIG. The demonstrator for radio communication and process control will be formulated in cooperation with the technical reference group, which also includes companies. According to the project, the added value of the project in relation to other projects and other research is that the project collaborates with SME on the new technology and has a user perspective which is not common. Most of the research is conducted in collaboration with large companies that are suppliers rather than users of the new technology. The project’s expected results and benefits at the end of the project period -A working test bed and a demonstrator. These must have been used for relevant technical problems. There must be a structured technical expertise. —By implementing technical projects in collaboration between industry and HIG, technical results are utilised in industry. Technology transfer becomes relatively simple through close cooperation with industry; synergies between companies, academic research and higher education are achieved in the field of technology, e.g. through the test bed and the demonstrator that is being developed. —In the long run, this should lead to new innovations. —Technical know-how is increasing in regional industry in the use of mm waves and 5G telecoms in the process and manufacturing industry, especially with regard to process regulation, wireless communication and measurement technology. —When new technology is introduced in SME in the region, not only the quality and performance of products and the efficiency of production are taken into account, but also environmental and work environment aspects.