Dr. Andreas Mueller is the Head of Communication and Network Technology in the Corporate Research Department of Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart, Germany. In addition to that, he is coordinating the 5G activities of Bosch in the context of Industry 4.0 across the different business units. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of the “5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation” (5G-ACIA), which has been established in order to make sure that 5G for the industrial domain becomes a success. This is done by providing a global forum for discussing related technical, regulatory and business aspects and by bringing all relevant stakeholders together.

Prior to joining Bosch, Andreas was a Research Staff Member at the Institute of Telecommunications of the University of Stuttgart, Germany, where he was contributing to the further development of the 3GPP Long Term Evolution towards LTE-Advanced. Besides, he was working as a Systems Engineer for Rohde & Schwarz, developing a novel software-defined radio based communication system for the German Armed Forces. Andreas holds a German Diploma degree as well as a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (with distinction) and an M.Sc. degree in Information Technology, all from the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

5G does not only come along with an unprecedented performance in order to support new use cases and applications in different vertical domains, but it will also support new deployment models, such as non-public networks (NPNs). NPNs will play a crucial role for many local applications of 5G, for example in manufacturing or agriculture. This talk will give an overview of relevant drivers and technical enablers for NPNs in the industrial domain and will point out open challenges that still need to be adressed in future.

The Industrial IoT is one of the most promising new application areas of 5G with a tremendous economic potential, but also very demanding requirements. The '5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation' (5G-ACIA) has been established as a global forum for the ICT and OT industry in order to jointly make sure that 5G for the Industrial IoT becomes a major success. In this talk, 5G-ACIA is briefly introduced and an overview of recent activities as well as remaining challenges is given.