Design and Implementation of 5G IoT for Retirement Village in Metaverse

This paper proposes the use of metaverse in the design, implementation, and pretest of 5G IoT systems for smart cities, in which this paper, a retirement village is selected as a preliminary example for the demonstration. Metaverse not only enables the system design and integration under multidisciplinary considerations including electrical system, solar energy system, 5G IoT system, communication, and automation, to be carried out economically but the system functionalities can also be carefully tested under various scenarios due to less limitation in the virtual world. The developed 5G IoT system for the retirement village monitors electrical power usage, solar power generation and consumption, air pollution, and environmental status. Moreover, the developed system also allows users to directly control lights and CCTV cameras using dashboards. To support various demands of such IoT services, the 5G network slice templates are designed and prepared according to the service requirements. In the system test, the monitoring data is shown on the dashboards to confirm the system connections and functionalities. Besides, wireless CCTV cameras via the developed 5G IoT systems are tested and compared between the virtual video in metaverse and the actual video from the real world. The results of both cases reveal no significant difference in terms of video quality degradation and latency. This shows the benefits and potentials of using metaverse in the design, implementation, and testing especially the system integration.