During the visit to Oulu University Smart Hospital, participants can witness cutting-edge technologies and advanced medical practices and learn about the hospital’s commitment to excellence in specialized medical care. The hospital will be at the forefront of innovation, utilizing 5G networks, AI, robotic surgery, digital imaging, telemedicine, smart buildings, information technology infrastructure to provide high-quality care. Additionally, Oulu University Hospital aims to be the smartest hospital in the world by integrating new technologies, sustainability, as well as embracing data-driven opportunities. Part of the departments have been opened in 2024 and it will be fully opened by 2030.

Immersive rooms
The MetaHealth Infra site at Oamk offers an immersive, metaverse-inspired environment where visitors can explore and test digital health and wellbeing technologies. It simulates real-world healthcare scenarios using gamified and interactive tools, enabling collaboration between researchers, companies, and public sector actors in a future-oriented, experiential setting.

Enabling Home
The Enabling Home is an accessible and homelike learning and simulation environment that can be adapted to various purposes. The home includes different technology-supported living solutions. The home’s accessible and safe construction and interior design solutions utilize technology to enable individuals with special needs in mobility, vision, hearing, memory, comprehension, or communication to participate in their daily activities and social interactions according to their abilities.

Nokia is pushing 5G technology to become faster and more cost-efficient through its flagship laboratory 5G Over-the-Air Validation Area, which was built to enable controlled environment for wireless testing, but still using real end-user devices. Furthermore, this unique test lab enables precise evaluations of network performance in critical site deployments with special construction materials or radio interference, like Future Hospital (OYS2030). During your visit, you will see labs which could be from James Bond films, gain insights into the importance of realistic testing of wireless mobile connectivity (both in a lab and on the field), and experience with tangible examples how modern technology enables e.g. drones operated from 30km distance are used daily in mobile network testing.

Bringing medical technology from innovation to patient care is slow and costly due to the complexity of the needed technologies and regulations. VTT’s pilot environment for medical devices, based on printed and flexible electronics and photonics technologies, accelerates the market entry of patient-friendly innovations. The medical device pilot enables the production of small and middle-size prototype series for pre-clinical studies using the most advanced electronic, photonic, microelectronic and microfluidic components and integration manufacturing technologies following ISO-13485 practises. These enable the development of comfortable-to-wear, skin-like wearable sensors combined with wireless communication and data processing functionalities.

Key application focus areas for the pilot line include preventive monitoring of cardiovascular diseases, metabolic syndromes and early cancer detection and recurrence as well as rapid diagnostics. Opened in early 2025, the facility is unique in Europe.

Human Robotic Lab
The Humanoid Robotic Lab at the University of Oulu is part of the BISG Robotics Group. It focuses on developing intelligent mobile and humanoid robots that can interact and cooperate with humans in complex environments. The lab combines multimodal sensing, embedded systems, and virtual reality to enable remote operation and autonomous behavior. Research themes include robotic inspection, search and rescue, and industrial collaboration, often in challenging or harsh conditions. The lab also works closely with industry partners like Probot Oy to bridge academic innovation with practical applications.

UbiComp Lab
UBICOMP (Center for Ubiquitous Computing) at the University of Oulu is a hub for cutting-edge research in Ubiquitous Computing and Human-Computer Interaction. Visitors to the lab can explore innovative technologies, including techniques for modeling human behavior, research-focused virtual spaces, and systems engineering to enable ubiquitous applications and services.

Human Body Twin Lab
The Human Body Twin Lab at the University of Oulu is developed by researchers from the Health Science and Technology (HST) and Optoelectronics and Measurement Techniques (OPEM) research units. Its purpose is to enable realistic evaluation of various medical monitoring applications. During the visit, guests will see different human organ twins, learn how they are prepared, and observe how they are used to test technologies such as brain monitoring headbands, capsule endoscopy devices, and breast cancer detectors.

Intravital microscopy laboratory is a part of BCO light microscopy core facility which provides open access state-of-the-art image acquisition and analysis services for researchers, non-academic users and companies. A guided tour to techniques and instrumentation for in vivo microscopy and optical monitoring of brain hemo -and hydrodynamics.

The Hola 5G Oulu site visit offers an opportunity to explore Europe’s first private 5G standalone (SA) network deployed in a functioning hospital environment, at Oulu University Hospital (OYS). The visit demonstrates how advanced wireless connectivity can support digital healthcare services, improve hospital operations, and enable innovative medical applications.

Participants will learn about the deployment and operation of the private 5G network and see demonstrations of healthcare use cases such as using wearable technologies and augmented reality in clinical workflows.

The Hola 5G Oulu initiative brings together healthcare, research and industry partners to develop secure and reliable wireless solutions for smart hospitals. The visit also introduces ongoing research on private 5G and future 6G healthcare services.

Further information:
https://hola5g-oulu.eu/
https://www.oulu.fi/en/projects/hola-5g