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Background information: What is 5G?
LTE or 4G, the current mobile data usage is available to more than 96 per cent of German households and has an area coverage of approximately 65 percent. To improve mass connectivity regarding the Internet of Things or to realize real-time applications, the performance of mobile communications needs to be further increased. Basically, 5G is a lot faster and at the same time more efficient than the previous version 4G or LTE. In addition, the network of the future is much more variable than a 4G network. This means that the network will notice whether a few devices require a high data rate or whether many devices with comparatively low demand are in one place. The network can adapt and precisely distribute its performance according to the requirements determined. 5G should be able to connect up to one million devices per square kilometer simultaneously. This is significantly more than with the previous standard. Thus, 5G is very interesting for industrial solutions in the first place since any wireless connection of machines require a solid network connection. In some countries there is already a nationwide 5G network. In Germany, the network is currently under construction. However, 5G is already available in some pilot regions. Further details regarding Germany’s 5G strategy can be found here:
5G - what does it mean?
5G Strategy for Germany
Which effects can 5G have on societies?
5G technology has great potential for innovation: for the vision of fully networked driving, efficiency increase in logistics, the management of decentralized energy networks or further developments in the medical technology or media sector are high performance mobile communication infrastructures are indispensable. Even at very high user and device densities, 5G will meet the necessary requirements. In addition, 5G enables the continuous networking of wearables, assistance systems, household electronics and a large number of sensors and actuators in the Internet of Things via convergent data networks. The different requirements and sometimes only temporary usage scenarios require flexible networks that provide the required performance parameters in combination, depending on the situation.
What are possible fields of application of 5G?
Mainly three application groups have been defined in accordance with the United Nations:
1. Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB): For many users in a cell, high bit-rate applications such as ultra-high-resolution vi8909deo streaming depend on high bandwidths per user and high capacities in a cell. The provision of such data rates is based on technologies that significantly increase spectral efficiency and requires wide frequency ranges. eMBB applies in improved user experiences, high device connectivity, high mobile data rates, mobile VR/AR applications (e.g. training and qualification for police, emergency forces etc.).
2. Massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC): Through the connection of everyday objects, the Internet of Things becomes reality. The resulting communication with control centers places high demands on the network capacity for the management of several hundred thousand registered devices per cell. In addition, radio transmission must be carried out with maximum energy efficiency in order to enable battery life of networked sensors of ten years and more. mMTCs applies in e-health, industry 4.0, intelligent logistics, environment monitoring, intelligent power supplies, smart farming, waste disposal of municipalities etc.
3. Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communication (URLLC): Safety-critical applications, e.g. from the manufacturing sector, depend on the highest connection quality, availability and interference immunity (Quality of Service). They also require tactile networks that transmit mission-critical data in real time. URLLCs applies in car-to-X-communication, packet drone control, to e.g. deliver medicine to rural areas or to elderly / sick people, monitoring of vital data, smart manufacturing
5G Strategy for Germany
Some examples for 5G applications and effects
- Intelligent mobility, e.g. optimized parking space management through automated parking display systems; improve traffic flow and reduce emissions; public transport adapts to demand
- Smart Farming: Fertilizer and harvesting strategies, automation of the process chain
- Intelligent supply networks: producers, network operators and consumers are connected, and electricity consumption is adapted to conditions (e.g. weather, consumption); intelligent street lighting / traffic control / waste disposal
- E-Health: remote treatment and telemonitoring of long-term patients, video-based doctor's consultations, care in rural areas; networking of ambulances to transmit vital data to the hospital
- Media of the future: interactive TN and participation in events (concerts, tourism hotspots, sports events such as the Olympics or the World Cup), Smart Wearables for young sportspeople