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Abstract
The high bandwidth available at millimeter-wave frequencies allows for very high data rates, but at the same time enables highly accurate localization and environment sensing. In this talk, we discuss how to implement low overhead location and sensing systems. As an example, we present results on the location accuracy that can be achieved with simple millimeter-wave commercial off-the-shelf communication devices. We also discuss how to use communication hardware (rather than dedicated radars) to perform zero-cost monitoring of human movement and activities in indoor spaces, by extracting micro-Doppler effects caused by human motion from the access points. We will specifically focus on the practical implementation aspects, testbed design and experimental results with such systems.

About the speaker
Joerg Widmer is Research Professor and Research Director of IMDEA Networks in Madrid, Spain. Before, he held positions at DOCOMO Euro-Labs in Munich, Germany and EPFL, Switzerland. He was a visiting researcher at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, USA, University College London, UK, and TU Darmstadt, Germany. His research focuses on wireless networks, ranging from extremely high frequency millimeter-wave communication and MAC layer design to mobile network architectures. Joerg Widmer authored more than 200 conference and journal papers and three IETF RFCs, and holds 14 patents. He was awarded an ERC consolidator grant, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a Mercator Fellowship of the German Research Foundation, a Spanish Ramon y Cajal grant, as well as nine best paper awards. He is an IEEE Fellow and Distinguished Member of the ACM.

Abstract
LOCUS is an ongoing EU Horizon 2020 funded collaborative R&D project started in 2019 focused on the localization and analytics in new 5G applications. Core technical work covers use cases, system architecture and proof of concepts based on the novel localization enablers and localization and analytics mechanisms for Smart Network Management and new services e.g. Network-assisted Self-Driving Objects and People Mobility and Flow Monitoring. The project consortium includes partners from the academia and the industry and this talk will illustrate the perspective of one of the industrial partners and will provide an overview of its main research activities. Finally, Samsung technical contributions to different work packages will be presented including their links to standardization.

About the speaker
Tomasz Mach holds PhD degree in mobile communications from the University of Surrey UK with almost twenty years of experience in various technical and leadership roles in the wireless industry. Those include 3G protocol software development, 4G small cells and SON architecture and systems engineering, technical marketing and pre-sales, research and mobile communications standards development including his work in various 3GPP, ETSI, 5GAA and O-RAN Alliance groups. Before joining Samsung in 2015, he worked at Orange, Motorola, Thales, Nokia, Blackberry and Cisco. Recently, he contributed to and coordinated various EU funded international 5G R&D activities including LOCUS project. He is a co-author of "5G System Design: Architectural and Functional Considerations and Long Term Research" book and also authored many patent applications, standards contributions and research papers. Among others, his current interest includes beyond 5G systems and V2X.

Abstract
In today's fast-paced telecom industry, it is very important to have access to the up-to-date research questions, concerns and problems timely. Standardization fora are the platforms in which these problems would be tackled and while not always the solutions are the best and the most optimum ones, they are basically the result of consensus among many different sectors and players in this field. LOCUS has the muscles in terms of engaged partners to monitor, identify and impact on the problems and solutions brought up in the positioning field of these standardization fora such as 3GPP and ETSI. These engagements are the sources of standard related IPRs as well as platforms initiating global solutions that would be adopted in all devices, networks in future releases in a wide aspect. Ericsson, as one of the LOCUS partners, is actively engaged in 3GPP in all levels of SA, CT and RAN, and is an active contributor in terms of positioning standardization topic since its start from LTE Release 9. The LOCUS project time frame was aligned with Release 17 RAN standardization and the start of Release 18, and the project has been monitoring, reviewing, and contributing to the enhancement of the positioning solutions during its time frame.

About the speaker
Sara Modarres Razavi has recently become the Innovation Program Manager for Ericsson Cloud RAN. Before that she was Master Researcher and the project manager of 5G and 5G-Advanced 3GPP RAN standardization project at Ericsson. She holds a Ph.D. in Infra-Informatics from Linköping University (2014) and MSc. in Hardware for Wireless Communication from Chalmers University of Technology (2008), Sweden. Her research focus has been on 4G, 5G and now 5G-Advanced cellular networks positioning, radio resource optimization and tracking area management. She contributes to several EU funded international 5G R&D projects including LOCUS and ESA funded project called HOP-5G. Sara Modarres Razavi has more than 15 years’ experience in the R&D within the area of wireless communication and networks and her published contributions include 30+ peer reviewed articles and 100+ filed patents mainly in the area of positioning in wireless networks.