5G technology opens new business opportunities for smart manufacturing

5G technology opens new business opportunities for smart manufacturing

In the manufacturing transformation process, machines and people need to communicate with each other more and more. Traditional wired technology has limited this way of communicating with each other, and it has also affected the flexibility required by the existing technology to achieve continuous improvement. .
The new generation of wireless 5G communication has the characteristics of reliability and responsiveness, which will be an obvious opportunity in process control. In many ways, 5G will be the enabler of the Internet of Things, as data acquisition from factory sensors can flow in real time with controlled delays.
For manufacturing, a challenge will be to establish reliable radio networks in indoor environments that may be subject to radio interference. Another challenge is the availability of spectrum. Public networks operating in the same spectrum can provide even more interference to wireless signals that the manufacturing process depends on.
Many industrial IoT systems are envisaged as private and dedicated to the entities in question. Dedicated spectrum and smaller combinations can avoid interference, and some countries may use certain frequency bands for industrial IoT use.
The 5G vision aims to improve the performance of all key performance indicators of mobile wireless networks, not just the increase in capacity and speed. 5G networks will provide faster and more reliable services, opening new business opportunities for the Internet of Things, autonomous driving, wireless broadband, and faster video reception and transmission.
The latency of a data connection is mainly the delay that occurs when a transmission establishes a data connection, which affects the network response from a mobile device or sensor. Connections above 5G will allow more data to be transmitted with less delay. In earlier technologies, this delay was longer and unpredictable.
5G technology will not only reduce latency, but also be more predictable, which means that processes with time-critical events can rely on 5G wireless data transmission and can communicate with other time-critical event processes. For example, during the manufacturing process, 5G wireless data communication may be a reliable communication method for transmitting time-critical events, and may even be the preferred method.