Capital Equipment News September 2019

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The rise of 5G coincides with the explosion of connected devices and systems associated with the Internet of Things

Today’s mining vehicles all bring with them large amounts of data. Processing the high volumes of data, at a faster speed, requires new antennas, new devices and new applications for wireless data

In addition to more processing power, 5G promises speeds 10 times faster than those of 4G

Today’s mining vehicles all bring with them large amounts of data. Processing these high volumes of data, at a faster speed, will require new antennas, new devices and new applications for wireless data. No matter what the setup looks like, the influx of additional data – which will need to be processed in real-time – is driving the need for a faster network. In addition to more processing power, 5G promises speeds 10 times faster than those of 4G. It is for this reason that the industry is investigating how the fifth generation technology can operate successfully on an industrial scale. By investigating the use of remote-controlled machines over 5G for

Telecommunications company Ericsson installed a 5G mast at the Technology Centre in Eskilstuna, Sweden, in March to allow Volvo CE to test remote- controlled machines with extremely short response times over the next two years A test autonomous beCloud network using 5G technologies, working in conjunction with the LTE- Advanced Pro network, has been deployed at the BELAZ plant in Belarus. This is a prototype of the future 5G network

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