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5G is available on the consumer market, but what will it bring to IoT?
The video covers:
What benefits does 5G bring to IoT for enterprises?
How will 5G help them, which IoT applications are likely to benefit most?
When should enterprises start using 5G for IoT?
What will happen to 4G?
Join Telenor Connexion as we discuss the opportunities of 5G for the future of IoT and connectivity.
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First of all, we will go through an outlook of 5G with a focus on the enterprises and what the real implications for them to consider are.
We are sure that many of you have been following in the press and read about 5G but, if you’re not into the details on a daily basis there could confusion and questions with regard to what it actually is and how it affects you as an enterprise. You’re probably looking into the potential of 5G for IoT applications and when we can start use it.
Let’s start by looking at it backwards. There have been several generations of mobile networks over the decades and there has been a ten-year cycle that has seen the introduction of a new technology within the mobile industry approximately every ten years. That is a very long time for mobile operators but not such a long time for enterprises producing goods that they want to have connected so it’s important to consider these lifecycle aspects when you design your solutions.
2G was the first technology to hit the market at mass scale and was designed for voice and messaging and simple services but it was also used for some IoT-related things, although in those days the terminology was machine-to-machine (M2M). Now, we’re in the Internet of Things era and 5G is the first technology that is having an impact on IoT use cases as part of the design pattern from the start.
We’ve been using other technologies for these services in the past but it’s been a bolt-on of using networks that were actually designed for other types of communication. Now with 5G, we introduce things like critical communication, we have IoT mobility solutions like LTE-M and narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) which to some extent are already working in 4G but are definitely part of the 5G era.