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While the Internet of Things is revolutionizing our society at an unprecedented pace, more recent research and development and industrial innovation focus is shifting towards the new direction of massive Internet of Things, which refers to the 10''s of billions of devices, objects, and machines that require ubiquitous connectivity at a density of 1 million devices per square kilometer. Massive Internet of Things raises high challenges for future communication networks and data processing. The emergent 5G technology with slicing capabilities can offer a stronger and more flexible networking support for Massive Internet of Things and for special applications (e.g. maritime services.) .Another technology trend is moving the centralized cloud computing architecture towards the edge. The project will develop innovative research and development solutions to foster the uptake of the newest 5G technologies and services in two envisaged use cases and enable upscaling and exploitation of beyond state-of-the-art 5G technologies from theory to reality. The technologies addressed in this project have potential applications mainly to public transportation, maritime services, environment, but also possible to other domains like asset monitoring, energy (smart grid), smart city, smart agriculture, and healthcare services. As a joint effort to greet the dawn of the emerging massive Internet of things and beyond 5G ( era, we propose this collaborative research project which combines the expertise from five leading research and industrial organizations in Romania and Norway. The quality of the consortium is enriched by the participation of two third-county partners in Spain and Canada respectively.