On 26 and 27 May 2026, we hosted the seventh ENVELOPE plenary meeting in Turin, a working session that brought together the partners of the European project to align activities, results and next steps ahead of the final phase.
ENVELOPE is the European project dedicated to the development and testing of 5G and 6G platforms and services for connected and autonomous mobility. Teoresi is involved as a technical partner, contributing its expertise in smart mobility and providing two prototypes of autonomous and connected cars.
A moment of exchange ahead of the project’s final phase
When a European project enters its final phase, research and development activities need to converge towards field testing.
During the two-day meeting in Turin, the ENVELOPE partners reviewed ongoing activities and next steps. The discussion focused on the preparation of the trial sites, the status of the technology platforms, the criteria for measuring the effectiveness of the tests and the external contributions gathered through the open calls, namely calls open to new partners to use ENVELOPE assets in new use cases or scenarios. The exchange also addressed future actions to communicate and enhance the value of the project results, including the final demonstration events.
Turin will host the Italian trial
The city is the Italian trial site of the project, designed to test connected and autonomous mobility services in an urban context. Vehicles, data, networks and urban infrastructure will work together to validate two new application scenarios: on the one hand, using the potential of 5G to reconstruct the dynamics of an accident by sending data collected by the sensors of autonomous cars; on the other, sharing real-time updates on the maps used by autonomous vehicles. The data collected by the vehicles may, for example, contribute to mapping the surrounding environment, identifying obstacles or route changes and reconstructing the dynamics of a possible accident in real time.
Our contribution
Our contribution builds on the work carried out in recent years in the field of autonomous and connected mobility.
Within ENVELOPE, we are providing two prototypes of autonomous and connected city cars, equipped with HD cameras, LiDAR, ultrasonic sensors, radar and GPS. These technologies collect real-time data, which is then integrated through sensor fusion techniques to digitally reconstruct the surrounding environment.
The two-day meeting was therefore also an opportunity to connect the technical work of the partners with the testing path that will bring the project from applied research to testing in an urban context.
“ENVELOPE represents an important step for Teoresi in its research path on autonomous and connected mobility. The meeting in Turin was a concrete working moment ahead of the testing phase, where prototypes, infrastructure, data and advanced connectivity will be brought together and validated in an urban scenario.” – Marco Bazzani, Innovation Manager at Teoresi Group
Towards the September trial
The seventh plenary meeting marked a step towards the Turin trial scheduled for autumn 2026, when the technical and project alignment work will move into the field-testing phase.
It will be one of the key moments of the project: a concrete test to observe how autonomous and connected vehicles, advanced networks, data and urban infrastructure can work together to enable new connected mobility services.