IoT, 5G, & O-RAN: Gearing Up for Industry 4.0 with Native AI and ML

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That’s why 5G is designed from the ground up to support demanding IoT use cases and requirements—including ones that 4G and Wi-Fi find challenging to handle.For example 5G has three feature sets that are ideal for Industry 4.0 applications.

These include Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) which reduces latency to as little as one millisecond key for mission-critical use cases such as 12141″ target=”_blank”>time-sensitive networking (TSN) and Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) which enables 5G networks to support up to one million IoT devices per square kilometer such as autonomous material handlers industrial robots and sensors.Even with these and other advanced capabilities mobile operators will need additional tools to ensure that their 5G networks can take full advantage of the IoT opportunity.This is also the case for operators of private 5G networks which 76 percent of manufacturers plan to deploy by 2024 according to an Analysys Mason survey.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI ML) provide the foundation for Industry 4.0 and the benefits they enable.The mission-critical use cases in Industry 4.0 demand ultra-real-time AI ML performance.So 5G can’t just be AI enabled.AI native is when AI ML capabilities are built inside 5G network functions.One example of this has been to integrate AI ML to enhance the radio access network (RAN) medium access control (MAC) scheduler.

What’s more this kind of AI ML enhancement also does not have to lock the operator into a proprietary ecosystem and suffer from vendor lock-in.This example also highlights how AI ML will fundamentally transform 5G communication systems and how they will be designed and deployed in the future.AI ML will have the capability to even control parts of the physical (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) layer functions.All of this directly benefits IoT

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