This year, the scale of China’s industrial Internet industry continues to maintain rapid growth momentum. According to the preliminary estimate of the Industrial Internet Industry Alliance, the scale of the industrial Internet industry will reach 800 billion yuan in 2019, with an average annual growth rate of 18%.

The integration and innovation of “5G+ Industrial Internet” is not only an inevitable trend of industrial development, but also an important driving force to promote the transformation of old and new driving forces. The features of 5G, such as ultra-large bandwidth, ultra-low latency, and massive connections, are highly consistent with the requirements and objectives of the industrial Internet, and provide key support and important opportunities for the construction of new infrastructure and integrated innovative applications of the industrial Internet.

5G has injected new vitality into the development of the industrial Internet

5G is a key enabling technology to drive the high-quality development of the industrial Internet. In 2019, more than 130,000 5G base stations are expected to be opened nationwide, achieving access to hundreds of millions of industrial equipment.

“5G+ Industrial Internet” focuses on industrial manufacturing, energy grid, smart port and other fields, Liu Duo, president of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, said that China’s “5G+ Industrial Internet” integration application types have reached more than 20. In the field of manufacturing, 5G applications are mainly based on information collection, remote control, video surveillance, and product quality monitoring.

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5G TSN technology can realize wireless TSN in the factory, ensuring end-to-end low latency of industrial Internet services; 5G high frequency and antenna technology supports accurate positioning and high bandwidth communication in the factory, greatly improving the operational accuracy in the field of remote control; 5G edge computing technology is accelerating the integration of industrial IT and OT networks, and improving the intelligence of the edge in the manufacturing plant. According to IDC, more than 50% of data will be processed at the edge in the future, and by 2020 edge computing spending will account for 18% of total iot infrastructure spending, costing only 39% of the cost of using central cloud computing alone.

Industrial UHD video and VR/AR have high bandwidth and delay requirements. Industrial VR/AR applications require rapid response, such as VR headset delay of more than 7 milliseconds will produce vertigo, and 4G delay of about 40 milliseconds, 5G ultra-low delay can meet VR requirements. 5G is applied to the Saas layer, embedded in industrial control management software, and combined with the Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, and AI. Taking the long-term planning of the factory as an example, there is no need to hold a temporary production scheduling meeting, and the execution time of intelligent ERP can be shortened by 25%.

The characteristics of 5G are not only in the increase of wireless network speed, 5G slicing technology has brought revolutionary changes to the core network. China Southern Power Grid, together with China Mobile and Huawei, carried out the pilot transformation of 5G bearer power distribution business in Shenzhen, using 5G slicing technology to ensure convenient, efficient and secure application of industrial networks, meeting the needs of differential protection business by relying on the characteristics of 5G low delay and high reliability, verifying the configuration, release, management and performance detection functions of slice manager, and realizing automatic management of core network slicing.

Qingdao Port pilot is a typical application of “5G+ port”, which uses the characteristics of 5G large bandwidth, low delay and high reliability to achieve remote control of construction machinery, grasp containers through 5G network remote control, improve the working environment of operators, effectively ensure the safety of operators, and help enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency in production and construction.