A comprehensive collection of 5G+Industrial Internet application scenarios!

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"5G+" has become popular, and application scenarios such as 5G+medical care, 5G+high-speed rail, and 5G+logistics are constantly emerging.

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Author | He Sisi

"5G+" has become popular, and application scenarios such as 5G+medical care, 5G+high-speed rail, and 5G+logistics are constantly emerging.

The "5G+Industrial Internet" 512 Project Promotion Plan issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently proposed that by 2022, five industrial public service platforms will be built in the field of "5G+Industrial Internet", and intranet construction and transformation will cover 10 key industries, forming at least 20 typical industrial application scenarios.

5G has become a long-term driving force in the development of the industrial Internet.

The reason why 5G is favored by the industrial Internet is that 5G can help the manufacturing industry achieve the goals of "improving quality, reducing costs, and increasing efficiency" with its technological advantages, thus enabling it to embark on the path of digitalization, networking, and intelligence.

At present, what are the application scenarios of 5G in the manufacturing industry and what are the effects? In this regard, Leifeng.com has specially sorted out the following application scenarios.

5G+Steel

At present, the informationization and automation levels of my country's steel industry have ranked among the best in the world, making it the industry closest to intelligence.

After the scope of the new infrastructure was clarified, how to transform traditional manufacturing through 5G technology became the main issue for steel companies to consider.

Application scenarios of 5G in the steel industry:

5G+artificial intelligence scrap steel identification system: Relying on 5G technology, scrap steel images can be collected in real time, and scrap steel can be automatically graded based on algorithm models, which greatly reduces the labor intensity of employees and improves the transparency and traceability of the inspection process.

5G+Smart Inspection: As the steel mill has a large number of equipment, it is very difficult to manage, control and visualize the equipment. With the powerful data transmission speed of 5G, smart inspection can collect equipment information in real time, and then predict the equipment status through big data analysis and processing, so as to achieve predictive maintenance.

5G+Smart Overhead Crane: Overhead crane is one of the indispensable equipment in steel production. It integrates loading, unloading, handling and transportation functions, and is a key factor in determining the efficient operation of steel plants. With the popularization of unmanned overhead crane systems, the demand for networks is also increasing. 5G has become the best choice for unmanned overhead crane systems with its advantages of ultra-high speed, ultra-low latency and ultra-strong stability.

5G+Safety in Production: Due to the particularity of the metallurgical steel industry, its safety in production is particularly prominent. Through the coverage of the 5G network, equipment inspection and high-risk operation scenarios can be realized, 5G technology can be used for unmanned operation, and high-definition video backhaul can be used to realize remote operation of cranes in the workshop, improve production safety, and reduce the occurrence of safety accidents.

It can be seen that 5G plays a vital role in the intelligent development of the steel industry. It has single-handedly achieved efficiency improvement in the five core elements of factory production, equipment, logistics, energy and environment, and safety, and supports the construction of smart steel plants.

5G+Agriculture

As a labor-intensive industry, agriculture has problems such as high labor costs, human resource shortages, and low efficiency in the production process.

With the emergence of 5G technology, more and more "black technologies" are being applied to the development of modern agriculture, which not only reduces labor costs but also improves the quality of crops. 5G has become a major contributor to reducing costs and increasing efficiency.

Application scenarios of 5G in agriculture: smart farms, smart forests, smart animal husbandry and smart fisheries.

If we break it down, it includes the following aspects:

Smart Farm: Remote control of agricultural machinery and equipment, crop monitoring, and automated operation of agricultural machinery and equipment;

Smart forest farm: forest resources, pests and diseases, wildlife, forest fire prevention monitoring, etc.;

Smart animal husbandry: animal husbandry production management level, animal tracking, pasture monitoring, animal epidemic and growth monitoring, etc.;

Smart fishery: fishery monitoring, water quality monitoring, aquatic product growth monitoring, precise fish feed delivery, etc.

A major feature of 5G smart agriculture is the use of various smart devices to replace manual labor, such as smart spraying, unmanned tractors, drones, etc. Various sensor devices and probe devices deployed in the farm are responsible for collecting information and transmitting real-time data to the data processing center. Managers make judgments and issue operation instructions based on the analyzed and processed data information. 5G can make the manager's orders arrive and be executed immediately, making the entire operation more accurate and efficient.

Currently, smart agriculture construction has been launched in many regions including Guangxi, Guangzhou, Henan, Chongqing, etc., to help agriculture develop towards intelligence, digitalization and refinement.

5G+Automotive

The first automobile industrial revolution of mankind achieved large-scale production on assembly lines, and the second revolution realized the electrification of automobiles. Since entering the 21st century, the automobile industry has been seeking breakthrough and revolutionary changes.

With the advent of the 5G era, the third revolution with intelligence as its main business model has brought important opportunities and changes to the automotive industry.

The rich smart interconnection scenarios generated by the cross-border integration of 5G technology and automobiles are considered to be one of the important topics in the development of the automotive industry at this stage. Automobile intelligence has not only become a new development trend, but will also profoundly change people's travel lives.

In the future, in the production and manufacturing process of complete vehicles and parts companies, the 5G-based industrial wireless Internet can connect people, machines, objects, materials, and environments within the factory and break through information islands, realize the digitalization of production processes, and lay the foundation for the realization of intelligent unmanned factories.

In the field of automobile parts processing, especially in the processing of power system parts, 5G technology will be widely used. For example, by adding sensors and communication modules to tool handles or machine tool spindles, 5G technology can be used to send machine tool processing parameters and operating status to the monitoring center in real time or receive processing instructions, so as to complete remote equipment status monitoring, early warning or collaborative manufacturing.

In vehicle manufacturing, 5G communication technology can be used in stamping workshops to realize mold inspection data collection and quality control linkage, plate quality data collection and line parameter adaptive adjustment, real-time collection of production line status data, etc. In welding workshops, 5G technology can be applied to welding group system data collection and static parameter optimization, welding parameter self-adjustment and optimization based on quality data collection of parts to be welded, and real-time simulation of virtual factories driven by real-site data collection.

In the future, intelligent AGV will be the key equipment to realize logistics and tooling transportation, and the combination and connection of different process units or production lines. The advantages of AGV developed based on 5G technology in real-time control and precise navigation combined with RFID technology will have broad application prospects in the logistics of vehicle production plants.

The emergence of 5G can be said to have solved the needs of new concepts such as smart cars and autonomous driving for high-speed, low-latency networks, and promoted the transformation and upgrading of the automotive industry.

5G+Aviation

With the development of 5G technology, 85% of aircraft in the United States and more than half of aircraft in Europe have access to the Internet, but in my country, only less than 5% of aircraft have access to the Internet in the air.

It is obvious that for my country, the integrated application of 5G+aviation has become an issue that needs to be urgently addressed.

In this regard, COMAC has leveraged the technological advantages of 5G and jointly with Shanghai Unicom built the country's first 5G civil aviation "smart factory".

Application scenarios of 5G in civil aviation:

Personnel management: Due to the high confidentiality and security requirements of large aircraft production, it is very important to strictly manage the entry and exit of personnel. Through the low latency characteristics of the 5G network, human faces can be quickly compared with the storage records on the "cloud", thereby greatly improving recognition efficiency.

Item management: There are tens of thousands of spare parts used in large aircraft production, and many processes still need to be completed manually by craftsmen. The "smart factory" can reduce the positioning error of spare parts placed in the workshop to within 3 centimeters through the precise indoor positioning system carried by the 5G network. Craftsmen can quickly return items to their original positions through indoor navigation equipment.

Data collection: 5G is used to collect the operating data of CNC machine tools in real time. In traditional industrial production, product quality inspection is usually the last step, which is a kind of post-event supervision. Nowadays, sensors are implanted in CNC machine tools to collect various data when the machine tools are running in real time, and immediately upload the data to the smart platform or "cloud" end, and then compare it with the data model uninterruptedly. Once the system finds an abnormality, it can issue an alarm in a short time.

At present, 5G-based quality inspection technology has effectively improved the efficiency and quality of parts inspection. Shanghai Unicom has integrated AR/VR technology with 5G to achieve an immersive experience in large civil aircraft manufacturing plants, and used virtual data and models to organically combine with real space to assist in the inspection and maintenance of workshop equipment.

Judging from the current project cooperation results, Shanghai Unicom has organically combined 5G technology with edge computing, cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies, and integrated it into the entire aircraft manufacturing process, effectively improving aircraft manufacturing production efficiency, improving aircraft assembly quality, and reducing production and operation costs.

5G+Coal Mine

As a traditional energy industry, the coal industry has the characteristics of many links, a long front line, a complex production system, and great management difficulty.

Underground work is the most dangerous problem in the coal mining industry, so intelligent and unmanned operation has become the expectation of every coal miner. The application of 5G technology has turned this dream into reality.

There are 6 systems in the underground working surface of the coal mine. Each system uses independent fiber optic communication. The data cannot be integrated, and the wired connection cannot adapt to the mine's most important tunnel boring machine working surface. Building a network between the mine surface and underground has become a thorny problem for the coal mining industry.

Because 5G networks have the characteristics of large bandwidth, low latency, and multiple connections, they naturally become a key technology for the construction of coal mine private networks.

The 5G coal mine private network has four characteristics:

First, there is one network for both underground and underground wells, and one network for production and office;

Second, the network follows the industry and provides mobile coverage;

Third, edge computing data does not leave the mine, ensuring data security and further reducing latency;

Fourth, in terms of security, the key equipment of 5G NSA networking has obtained coal safety certification.

The first 5G smart coal mine in the country was jointly built by China Mobile, Yangquan Coal Group and Huawei. Relying on the lowest underground 5G network in the country - the 534-meter "ultra-gigabit uplink" coal mine 5G dedicated network, Yangquan Coal Group's Xinyuan Coal Mine has realized intelligent management of coal mines and solved many pain points in the coal industry.

The birth of this 5G smart coal mine has laid the foundation for the development of China's coal mining industry towards intelligence. In addition, Henan Province and Shanxi Province are also carrying out the construction of 5G smart coal mines.

The "Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Intelligent Coal Mines" jointly issued by eight ministries and commissions proposed that by 2025, large-scale coal mines and coal mines with serious disasters will basically achieve intelligence; by 2035, all types of coal mines will basically achieve intelligence, and a multi-industry chain and multi-system integrated coal mine intelligent system will be built, and a coal mine intelligent system with intelligent perception, intelligent decision-making, and automatic execution will be built.

5G+Port

As an important hub of transportation, ports play a vital role in promoting international trade and regional economic development. About 90% of global trade is carried by the shipping industry.

As the entire port industry is currently facing many challenges such as rising labor costs, high labor intensity, and labor shortages, reducing costs, increasing efficiency, and carrying out automation upgrades have become the common demands of ports around the world.

The intelligentization and informatization construction of ports has become an important means to enhance their core competitiveness, and is also the key to reducing logistics costs and improving logistics efficiency.

As an important enabling technology for the digital transformation of thousands of industries, 5G plays a key role in building smart ports.

Application scenarios of 5G in smart ports:

Unmanned driving: Based on the technical characteristics of 5G networks, combined with MEC technology, intelligent sensing technology, etc., it is possible to realize the high-speed sending of remote control commands for unmanned container trucks in smart ports, as well as the need for manual remote control of unmanned container trucks in abnormal situations.

Remote control of mechanical equipment: Relying on the technical characteristics of 5G network and with the help of "end-to-end" 5G network deployment, the data connection between quay cranes, yard cranes and remote control center adopts the "5G+wired networking" method, which can improve the reliability and flexibility of network transmission. Combined with the terminal operation management system, quay crane automatic control system and yard crane automatic control system, remote control operation of quay cranes and yard cranes can be realized.

Smart security and emergency command: With the help of 5G network technology advantages, high-definition videos captured in real time by front-end equipment such as drones and surveillance balls are transmitted back to the smart port emergency command and dispatch center, realizing the synchronization of the real scene of the terminal with the large-screen video image, greatly improving the terminal command and dispatch personnel's observation and judgment capabilities of emergencies on the port site, and improving decision-making and execution efficiency.

At present, China Mobile has assisted Qingdao Port, Zhoushan Port, Mawan Port and other ports in building smart ports, enabling them to take solid steps towards intelligence.

5G technology has been widely used in many industries and fields, but the current development of 5G is still in the exploratory stage. If it is to truly become a key technology that enables the digital transformation of thousands of industries, it still needs to work hard!

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