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The future of the manufacturing industry highly depends on digital systems that transform existing production and monitoring systems into autonomous systems fulfilling stringent requirements in terms of availability, reliability, security, low latency, and positioning with high accuracy. In order to meet such requirements, private 5G networks are considered a key enabling technology. In this paper, we introduce the 5G-CLARITY system that integrates 5G new radio (5GNR), Wi-Fi and light fidelity (LiFi) access networks, and develops novel management enablers to operate 5G-Advanced private networks. We describe three core features of 5G-CLARITY including a multi-connectivity framework, a high precision positioning server and a management system to orchestrate private network slices. These features are evaluated by means of packet level simulations and an experimental testbed demonstrating the ability of 5G-CLARITY to police access network traffic, to achieve cm-level positioning accuracy, and to provision private network slices in less than one minute.

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