What conditions are needed for the “5G+Industrial Internet” to move toward a large-scale landing?
2021.09.07
With the increasing maturity of
technologies such as connectivity, computing, cloud, and AI, ICT has become a
link between industrial terminals and industrial applications, and has promoted
the industrial Internet to become a reality. Among them, 5G is undoubtedly one
of the most critical technologies. "
Nowadays, a new round of scientific and
technological revolution and industrial reforms are deeply advancing on a
global scale, and information technology is changing with each passing day. In
this process, the integration of 5G and industrial Internet will accelerate the
construction of digital China and a smart society, accelerate the process of
China’s new industrialization, and inject China’s economic development. New
kinetic energy. Based on this, the development of "5G+Industrial
Internet" has become a key focus of the industry.
my country's "14th Five-Year
Plan" clearly stated in accelerating the construction of new
infrastructures that it is necessary to accelerate the large-scale deployment
of 5G networks and actively and steadily develop the industrial Internet. The
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Industrial
Internet Innovation and Development Action Plan 2021-2023" to accelerate
the integration and development of 5G and industrial Internet. All parties in
government, industry, university, research and users are also working together
to create a new pattern of 5G processing industrial Internet development.
Under the country's strong policy guidance
and the active efforts of the industry, China has taken the lead in 5G. The
number of 5G base stations has reached 993,000, accounting for 70% of the
world, and the number of 5G connections is 392 million, accounting for 80% of
the world. At present, Chinese operators have carried out more than 6,000 5G
innovation projects. By the end of 2021, 5G-related projects will reach more
than 20 billion. Compared with the exploration of 5G in other industries, the
5G industrial Internet has gradually moved from an innovation pilot to a
large-scale development.
It is reported that with the joint efforts
of all parties in the industry, nearly 1,600 projects of "5G + Industrial
Internet" have been built, covering more than 20 key industries and fields
of the national economy, and will play a role in the transformation and
upgrading of the real economy to digital, networked, and intelligent Played an
important role.
There are
still challenges to widespread implementation
With the increasing maturity of
technologies such as connectivity, computing, cloud, and AI, ICT has become a
link between industrial terminals and industrial applications, and has promoted
the industrial Internet to become a reality. Among them, 5G is undoubtedly one
of the most critical technologies. "The characteristics of 5G include the
three major characteristics of large bandwidth, low latency and wide coverage,
which can effectively solve the connection problems of poor mobility,
insufficient coverage, and insufficient real-time performance in industrial
Internet application scenarios." Huawei vice president, Huawei ICT product
portfolio Ma Haixu, President of Management and Solutions, said.
Therefore, “5G+Industrial Internet” is the
most active area of
In this regard, Li Guangju, president of
China Unicom Digital Technology Co., Ltd., pointed out that although the
prospect of "5G + Industrial Internet" is optimistic, it is still
necessary to face up to the difficulties faced by the wider implementation of
5G in the industrial field. "The application of 5G in the public market is
very different from the application in the industrial market. Various
applications in the public market have relatively strong homogeneity, and it is
easy to switch between the use of new technologies. In the industrial field,
different companies The scenarios supported by 5G vary greatly. The use of new
technologies requires a long program design, technical verification, and actual
testing before they can be promoted on a large scale."
Cui Li, chief development officer of ZTE,
also said that when many application innovations are deeply integrated with
scenarios and services, fragmentation will be very serious. "5G+Industrial
Internet, the core is to focus on value, the digital base "responds to all
changes with the same", and application innovation "looks for the
same from all changes", effectively finding a balance between fragmented
applications and large-scale economic benefits, using "agile innovation
"And "rapid iteration" embrace the future of digital
intelligence."
In addition to the above-mentioned
challenges, security issues are also an issue that must be addressed in the
development of "5G + Industrial Internet". “In the past development
of IT systems and the Internet, network security has been relatively lagging
behind, leading to many limitations in security protection. However, whether it
is at the policy level, or planning and construction, security elements have
been integrated into the industrial Internet, but security issues have not been
Relax." said Wang Tao, senior technical director of the Industrial
Internet Security Division of Qi'anxin Group.
Although the “5G+Industrial Internet” still
has these practical problems, with national policies, technological progress
and the continuous vigorous promotion of the industry, the 5G Industrial
Internet is moving towards an inflection point of scale growth. Yu Xiaohui of
the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology has publicly
stated that it is expected that the Industrial Internet will enter a stage of
rapid development next year. After three years of rapid growth, the Industrial
Internet will achieve scale growth in 2024.
Four elements of scale development
In Ma Haixu's view, the scale development
of 5G industrial Internet requires four key elements:
l One is to enter the production system to solve the rigid needs of
the business. Specifically, from the perspective of industry practice, reducing
costs, improving efficiency, improving quality and safe production are the
rigid needs of enterprises. Ma Haixu, for example, said that in Hunan, Huawei
and Xiangtan Iron & Steel have realized 5G+ remote crane control, and
workers can transport scrap steel to designated areas for remanufacturing in an
air-conditioned room. In Shanxi, Huawei and Pangpangta jointly created a 5G
smart mine solution to realize unmanned inspection and remote control of fully
mechanized mining face in a 534-meter-deep mine, reducing the number of fully
mechanized mining face by 60%. "5G Industrial Internet solves the key
problems of the industrial production system, so it has been promoted and
developed on a large scale in the industry."
l The second is the overall planning, construction, maintenance and
optimization to realize flexible manufacturing. Flexible manufacturing is an
important prerequisite for meeting personalized customization. It requires
flexible adjustment of production lines and rapid model change. This requires
5G networks to have the capabilities of integrated network construction,
flexible adjustment of network slicing, and visual self-monitoring. For
example, Huawei has created a series of automation tools covering planning,
construction and maintenance, making 5GtoB network construction out of the
traditional way of others, greatly improving work efficiency and providing a
strong guarantee for flexible manufacturing.
l The third is to formulate industry standard documents and quickly
replicate them on a large scale. 5G industrial Internet solutions have
fragmentation and customization issues. Huawei hopes to work with all parties in
the industry chain to formulate reproducible and tradable solution standard
parts, ecological standard parts, and industry standard standard parts to
promote the closed loop and scale of the industry chain. develop.
l Fourth, all parties in the industry chain collaborate to build
ecological prosperity. The 5G Industrial Internet has a huge industrial chain
and extremely complex ecological integration. To this end, Huawei proposes two
major ecological construction measures. First of all, Huawei plans to build a
test and certification center composed of 7 open laboratories and deploy an
automated test platform. Currently, it has completed certification for 33 types
of terminals and more than 40 industry applications, and will be fully open to
ecological partners in the future. Second, Huawei will cooperate with industry
organizations, operators and leading companies to establish an integrated
verification center to improve delivery efficiency through solution
pre-integration. The two centers are currently under construction and will be
officially released within this year.
In addition, Li Guangju also put forward
six major suggestions for the future development of "5G + Industrial
Internet":
l The first is to jointly explore business models. The investment in
5G private network construction is large, the charging method has not yet been
unified, and the role of network operation and maintenance has not been fully
understood, and the industry needs to explore together;
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l The third is to reduce the cost of 5G terminals, while
strengthening program guidance and project traction;
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