  Just before the commercial roll out of European 5G networks, 5G trials in
realistic environments have been recently initiated all around Europe, as pat
of the Phase 3 projects of 5GPPP H2020 program [1]. The goal is to showcase
5G's capabilities and to convince stakeholders about its value adding business
potential. The approach is to offer advanced 5G connectivity to real vertical
industries and showcase how it enables them to overcome existing 4G network
limitations and other long standing issues. The 5G EVE H2020 5GPPP project [2]
offers cutting edge 5G end to end facilities (in 4 countries) to diversified
vertical industry experimenters. The objective is to understand the needs of
prominent industries across Europe and to offer tailor made 5G experience to
each and every one of them. This paper contributes to the understanding of
vertical services' needs, by offering a thorough and concise vertical
requirements analysis methodology, including an examination of the 4G
limitations. It also provides real life values for the targeted KPIs of three
vertical sectors namely, Smart Industry (4.0), Smart Cities / Health and Smart
Energy, while assisting market roll out by prioritizing their connectivity
needs.
