PRESS RELEASE: China Telecom’s 5G deterministic network has been deeply involved in front – line practice in Shenzhen, and 5G has been applied to the core control process in the industrial field for the first time.
The 5G project jointly created by China Telecom, Today International Logistics Technology Co., Ltd. and Huawei has achieved great success. The 5G deterministic network empowers the new – generation warehousing management. In the key background of logistics and warehousing, a public service, precise control, efficiency improvement and cost reduction have been achieved, which is expected to rapidly reduce the social logistics cost and promote the digital and intelligent upgrading of industry.
Logistics is indispensable to mass consumption and all industries. The core product of the warehousing and logistics system is the automated three – dimensional warehouse. As a country with the largest industrial scale and the most complete industrial categories in the world, China has been catching up rapidly in warehousing and logistics automation, showing late – comer advantages.
China Telecom unite Today International Logistics Technology Co., Ltd, the industry in integrated logistics systems and Huawei, the world’s leading company in the 5G field, has continuously carried out innovation and research to replace various communication subsystems with a unified network, taking the lead in empowering the industrial supply chain – the intelligent logistics industry.
Since 2019, China Telecom, together with Today International and Huawei, has continuously explored the combination of 5G and in – factory warehousing and logistics, developed multiple 5G + intelligent logistics solutions, realized multiple scenarios such as digital – twin management and control system + 5G, industrial Internet + 5G, and widely verified the technical feasibility of 5G deterministic network.
The Telecom’s 5G deterministic network not only has its latency and other indicators reaching the industrial demand level, but also has high reliability, enabling 5G to truly penetrate the south – bound connection of industrial connection, that is, the core control link. ” Li Bin, a senior expert of China Telecom Group , said that the 5G deterministic network solution makes it possible for 5G to achieve industrial control.
During the process of innovative exploration, China Telecom has created four core “weapons” to achieve a 5G deterministic industrial control network that natively carries industrial protocols:
Weapon 1: The user plane UPF of the 5G core network is sunk to achieve deterministic forwarding, reducing the transmission latency by 20 ms;
Weapon 2: Uplink pre – scheduling of the air interface further reduces the latency by 20 ms, stably controlling the end – to – end one – way latency within 8 ms;
Weapon 3: Dual – transmission and selective – reception combining the terminal and UPF to ensure the accurate transmission of information with a reliability as high as 99.99%;
Weapon 4: 5G LAN networking realizes layer – 2 forwarding and natively carries industrial protocols.
These four weapons have achieved remarkable “results”: the average end – to – end latency is 4 milliseconds, the maximum latency is 8 milliseconds, and the reliability reaches 99.99%.
“The core control is usually invisible, but it is very important. Through the construction of a unified network and platform, the connection of a single device is simplified, the orderliness and efficiency of construction and adjustment are improved, and the reliability and flexibility are enhanced. The 5G deterministic network has brought revolutionary changes to the industrial control architecture, enabling 5G full – function modules to connect to the factory and experiencing unprecedented flexibility.” Li Bin said.
5G operation and maintenance promotes the in – depth integration of IT + OT + CT
5G industrial control has turned from an idea into a reality. In the joint laboratory of Today International, the whole – process control of in – factory warehousing and logistics has been achieved, with the inventory cost reduced by 94.2% and the inventory efficiency increased by 4.7 times.
In the production – auxiliary scenario, China Telecom has created a cloud – based warehousing and logistics control system through the 5G deterministic network to conduct the whole – life – cycle control of materials, realizing intelligent inventory, data collection and intelligent quality inspection, and greatly improving the accuracy of quality inspection.
Telecom 5G operation and maintenance promotes the in – depth integration of IT, OT and CT. Innovation has brought practical effects, reducing the failure rate by 60%, the duration of fault handling by 80%, and the customer complaint rate by 50%, deployed the digital – twin control system and the 5G end – to – end operation and maintenance system onto the MEC, realizing the active monitoring of logistics equipment and 5G network, increasing the data collection coverage rate by 80% and reducing the operation and maintenance cost by 94.2%.
Actual combat has found that China Telecom’s 5G deterministic industrial network has further enhanced the connection capability of the warehousing and logistics system. The 5G unified network has lower deployment difficulty and operation – maintenance cost. The speed and efficiency of finished product outbound have been greatly increased, the accuracy rate of quality inspection has been increased by 80%, and the cost of quality inspection has been reduced by 50%.
Boost the upgrading of the industrial chain and help the industry to be autonomous and controllable
China Telecom’s 5G deterministic network is becoming a prairie fire of innovation. The deep – connection scheme of warehousing and logistics based on this network has been deeply integrated into many key products such as stackers and AGVs. While meeting business requirements, 5G RedCap has been introduced to greatly reduce the cost and power consumption of 5G terminal modules, accelerate the construction of 5G fully – connected factories, and facilitate the large – scale application and development of the 5G intelligent logistics industry. At present, it is being promoted and replicated in more than 1,000 integration projects in many industries such as lithium – ion batteries, petrochemicals, and tobacco, including overseas landing project.
The 5G deterministic network is an important technical guarantee for realizing the intelligent upgrading of warehousing and logistics. The upgrading of warehousing and logistics promotes industrial upgrading, will rapidly reduce social logistics costs, and simultaneously boost the upgrading of the industrial chain of communications and industry.
In the future, China Telecom will continue to work with partners such as Today International Logistics Technology Co., Ltd, Huawei to promote the 5G deterministic network to play a role in fields other than warehousing and logistics, assist in the digital transformation of the industry, and drive the transformation and upgrading of Industry 4.0.