Energy Magazine April 2022 | Page 70

SMART ENERGY
The high bandwidth and low latency provided by 5G networks are driving process industries to partner with strategic 5G providers . In addition to the organisational and economic benefits of industrial digitisation , falling prices of technologies such as machine learning and Big Data analytics push manufacturers toward technological solutions that improve their quality and efficiency .
Marina Salaber , Research Analyst , Industrial Practice , Frost & Sullivan , said 5G broadband ' s capabilities enable connections to numerous devices and simultaneously process large masses of data , addressing the concern about the increasing requirement of data traffic that modern factories need .
“ High reliability allows businesses to incorporate automation processes that depend on the correct network operations ,” she said . “ 5G , in this regard , surpasses the boundaries of digitisation , allowing a dependency on network processes and protecting companies from high production costs and stoppages that connection dropouts cause ."
Suppliers accelerate Industrial 4.0 with new solutions and routers Queclink , a supplier of IoT devices and technologies , recently launched its network solutions for the energy industry .
“ It ' s time to deliver our network solutions that help establish stable and private cellular connectivity for IoT ," said Edwin Peng , Queclink ' s Senior Vice President . " This kind of connectivity is easy to deploy in a data-massive environment . We have been proactive in IoT that truly has initiated ' Industrial 4.0 ', at the core of which is to leverage big data for delicacy management .”
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