In modern industrial environments, the need for automated solutions increased as mobile network technology progressed. With the deployment of the fifth-generation standards (i.e., 5G), it is now possible to achieve a level of automation never reached before. 5G allows low latency, high throughput, and large bandwidth, which make it possible to deploy time-sensitive applications like autonomous driving and automated control of robots in an industrial environment. This thesis focuses on the deployment of a low-cost 5G network exploiting the tools provided by the open-source software OpenAirInterface (OAI) and the successive development of a Robot Operating System (ROS) 2 mobile robot application that could be deployed across the 5G network to automatically control the robot’s movement.