Three major operators make concerted efforts: embrace 5G positioning, accelerate capacity improvement, and create an industrial ecosystem together
New technologies such as mobile internet, cloud computing,
and the Internet of Things have changed traditional industry development
models, spawned many new business formats, and injected surging momentum into
the high-quality development of China's economy. High-precision positioning
technology based on 5G is expected to become the next hot spot for growth.
Through "one network", it can meet the two key demands of various
industries for communication and positioning at the same time.
Telecom operators are not only the builders and operators of
network infrastructure, but also the forerunners of digital transformation,
driving the in-depth development of the 5G industry chain and showing
significant demonstration effects. On September 28, during the "2021 China
International Information and Communication Exhibition", the "5G
Positioning Industry Forum" hosted by the 5G Application Industry phalanx
with the theme of "Firming 5G Innovation and Creating Wisdom
Together" "On the conference, experts from China Telecom, China
Mobile, and China Unicom shared the practice and thinking of telecom operators
on "5G positioning" for the guests.
China Telecom: Realizing 5G positioning and diversified
digital technology cloud network integration, empowering the digital
transformation of thousands of industries
Ma Guozu, a senior expert of China Telecom and deputy
general manager of China Telecom Wanwei Information Technology Co., Ltd., said
that the state proposed that "space-time information and positioning and
navigation services have become an important new infrastructure." In
recent years, positioning application requirements are gradually developing
from outdoor to indoor. Fast, real-time and accurate indoor positioning can
combine real-world physical objects with virtual space data information, greatly
changing the operation mode of retail, manufacturing, logistics, first aid and
other industries. The seamless connection of indoor and outdoor positioning
will truly realize everything interconnected.
China Telecom is deeply tapping the application potential of
the integration of 5G positioning and large communication bandwidth into one
network. For example: indoor positioning adopts 5GUTDOA positioning, which does
not require terminals, and increases positioning capabilities in the
construction of 5G indoor sub-systems to achieve meter-level positioning
accuracy and meet indoor low positioning accuracy requirements. By adding vSLAM
positioning technology, further achieve centimeter-level high Precision
positioning.
"China Telecom will inject 5G indoor positioning
technology into the'Tianyi Cloud Atlas' platform to realize the cloud-network
integration of 5G positioning + AI+XR multiple digital technologies, and take
the lead in the field of information consumption." Ma Guozu said that this
move will accelerate the development of 5G positioning End-to-end networking
capabilities, overcome key technical problems, and build an ecological
symbiosis platform for the vigorous development of the 5G positioning industry,
so that the 5G positioning atomic capability can better empower information
consumption, industrial production, social governance and people's livelihood
services.
China Mobile: Focus on technological innovation and
accelerate the maturity of 5G positioning capabilities
Guo Weijiang, director of the network location team of China
Mobile (Shanghai) Industry Research Institute, pointed out that positioning
capability has become one of the important requirements for the transformation
and development of digital intelligence in vertical industries. China Mobile
has incorporated "location" into the capacity building of China
Mobile's smart mid-stations, and is actively deploying 5G+ indoor and outdoor
positioning technology innovation system.
In terms of outdoor positioning, China Mobile combined the
Beidou navigation system and ground differential reference station to build an
outdoor Beidou differential high-precision positioning network covering the
whole country, with accuracy up to dynamic centimeter level and static
millimeter level; in indoor positioning, China Mobile plays its own role
Network advantages, standards and industry influence, comprehensive layout of
indoor positioning field, with 5G network construction as the traction, combined
with 5G and other pan-wireless technologies, to create 5G+ indoor and outdoor
high-precision positioning services.
At present, China Mobile has built an "indoor 5G+
multi-integrated high-precision positioning platform". Based on 5G+
pan-wireless positioning technology, it has the ability to provide
multi-positioning technology and multi-positioning accuracy location services,
which can provide industry customers with centimeter, submeter, and meter
accuracy. Location service. In addition, China Mobile closely follows the
evolution of 5G positioning technology, and cooperates with partners such as
Huawei to successively release the "5G Positioning Capability Opening
Industry White Paper" and the "China Mobile 5G High-precision
Positioning Capability White Paper". Pilot verification.
Guo Weijiang said that high-precision location services have
a lot of room for development in vertical industries, and China Mobile regards
location services as an important capability in the toB market. With the
evolution and improvement of the 3GPP standard, 5G-based positioning technology
will gradually achieve sub-meter high-precision positioning. China Mobile will
focus on the evolution of 5G technical standards and the construction of
positioning capabilities to promote the maturity of 5G positioning technology.
China Unicom: Actively build an indoor and outdoor
high-precision positioning product system around 5G and Beidou
5G and Beidou are major projects and key goals proposed in
the national "14th Five-Year Plan", and are also an important part of
the national strategy for the integration of space and earth. The IoT
revolution brought by 5G will promote the ubiquity of Beidou's time-to-space
information applications. The application of 5G high-precision positioning will
further empower the digital transformation and high-quality development of
thousands of industries.
It is understood that China Unicom attaches great importance
to the integration and innovation of 5G + Beidou high-precision positioning. As
the only vice president unit of the China Satellite Navigation and Positioning
Association (Zhongwei Association) among operators, it has long been
responsible for the work of the Beidou IoT Special Committee of the Zhongwei
Association. , And is promoting the establishment of a Beidou + 5G special
committee to accelerate 5G + Beidou technology innovation, product research and
development, and complete the construction of lighthouse projects in the fields
of smart cities, industrial Internet, and smart ports.
Yang Shan, Director of the Space-Time Service Center of
China Unicom’s Smart City Research Institute, said, “China Unicom has taken
positioning as an important basic capability, and has actively built an indoor
and outdoor high-precision positioning product system around 5G and Beidou. We
have been in 3C manufacturing, automobile manufacturing and other industries.
Commercial testing of 5G indoor positioning has been carried out. In the
future, we hope to work with industry chain partners to improve the
capabilities of platforms, networks and terminals to provide the best
positioning network and services for industry needs."