Since this year, Li Jiaguan, a resident in Lianjiangkou Town, Qingyuan City, has been used to video calling with his family with 5g mobile phone; Located on the East Island at the southern end of Guangdong Province, Zhongke Refining & Chemical intelligent plant is officially on-line trial operation under 5g empowerment.
As one of the regions with the fastest development speed and the most active innovation of 5g industry, Guangdong ranks first in the number of 5g base stations and 5g users in China. This year marks the end of the three-year implementation plan for promoting the construction of new infrastructure in Guangdong Province (20202022). According to the schedule of key construction projects in 2022 released by Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission, 400005g station sites and about Toread Holdings Group Co.Ltd(300005) g communication base stations will be built this year.
New infrastructure has been implemented one after another, and the integrated application of 5g has attracted much attention. According to a set of data provided by Guangdong new generation communication and Network Innovation Research Institute, Guangdong currently has more than 1600 5g related enterprises, covering industries such as intelligent manufacturing, intelligent medical treatment, rail transit, energy and chemical industry and smart city. The province has gathered more than 50000 manufacturing enterprises above Designated Size, which has become a broad space for the future application of 5g.
How to make 5g better enable industrial development? On April 8, Zhu Fusheng, President of Guangdong new generation communication and Network Innovation Research Institute, said in an interview with Nanfang finance and economics all media reporter, “with the deeper integration and application of 5g and the industry, if you want to fully show the driving role of 5g in the transformation and development of the industry to the vertical industry, you need more mature solutions, more flexible and feasible business models, high reliability, high security and lower application costs.”
5g is becoming an important carrier of digital transformation of manufacturing industry
In terms of 5g infrastructure layout, Guangdong has always been at the forefront of the country.
On August 17, 2020, Shenzhen announced that it had exceeded the target of building 450005g base stations ahead of schedule, becoming the first city with full coverage of 5g independent networking in China and taking the lead in entering the 5g era.
According to the three-year implementation plan for promoting the construction of new infrastructure in Guangdong Province (20202022), by 2022, there will be 3500005g stations in Guangdong Province, 2200005g base stations have been built in total, the whole province has basically realized 5g coverage, the Pearl River Delta has built 5g broadband urban agglomeration, and the number of 5g users in Guangdong Province will reach 60 million.
Under such layout, 5g has become an important carrier of digital transformation of manufacturing industry.
The implementation plan for digital transformation of manufacturing industry in Guangdong Province (20212025) proposes that by 2025, Guangdong will promote the implementation of digital transformation of more than 50000 Industrial Enterprises above Designated Size, drive 1 million enterprises to use the cloud, lead the transformation of manufacturing industry with digitization, and form an industrial ecosystem for the integration and development of large, medium and small enterprises.
In July 2021, the first 5g all Taiwan interconnected intelligent manufacturing demonstration factory in Guangdong was unveiled in Foshan Shunde factory of Midea kitchen heating business department. This demonstration factory has built an industrial internet intelligent manufacturing mode with 5g depth, in which 55 5g application scenarios have been developed, including 5g network supporting high-speed operation of production line, Siasun Robot&Automation Co.Ltd(300024) arm neat and efficient operation, zero error scheduling and transportation of AGV trolley in place, AI vision replacing manual quality inspection, etc. the factory has become the benchmark of 5g enabling digital transformation.
In Shiling, Huadu, Guangzhou, the digital transformation of luggage and leather goods industry cluster based on 5g has been started. Through digital public information platform, shared manufacturing center, public logistics warehouse and live broadcast e-commerce base, resource sharing is optimized and traditional production management mode is being improved.
In Yangxi County, Yangjiang, Guangdong Mobile and the local tilapia 5g Digital Industrial Park broke the traditional management mode of fishery relying on empirical judgment, and realized the whole process monitoring of water temperature, water quality EC value, water quality dissolved oxygen and tilapia water quality environmental data, so as to achieve the right remedy for the problem of aquaculture.
“5g has the natural attribute of cross-border integration and is an important driving force for the digital transformation of manufacturing industry.” Zhang Hongxia, deputy director of Guangdong Provincial Communications Administration, said publicly that in terms of 5g + intelligent manufacturing, Guangdong has combined 5g and industrial Internet to form a number of application benchmarks.
While 5g network brings higher transmission rate, its characteristics such as low delay and massive connection can better meet the development needs of informatization, digitization and intelligence of vertical industry. At present, 5g fusion application is in an active exploration stage all over the world.
“For 5g network, tob application for vertical industry will become a broad market as important as consumer to C business. Especially when killer applications have not been produced at to C end, tob industry application reflects the great value of 5g network.” Zhu Fusheng said.
accelerate the development of replicable solutions
Li Shan, director of wireless application and Industry Research Department of Radio Research Center of China Academy of information and communication, said that 5g is not only the “leader” in the new infrastructure, but also the “foundation in the foundation”. 5g is not only a communication network, but more importantly, it integrates the facilities of emerging industries such as industrial Internet, Internet of things and Internet of vehicles, application infrastructure such as artificial intelligence and cloud computing, as well as a new generation of information networks such as optical fiber broadband network and satellite Internet.
How to make full use of 5g technology to promote the continuous transformation of industrial digitization?
According to Zhu Fusheng’s observation, Guangdong pays more attention to the model of government guidance and social leadership when promoting the application of 5g industry. “Guangdong science and technology, industry and information technology and other government departments start with the application of common technologies in 5g industry and the construction of platform base to create a good ecological environment for the application of 5g industry.”
Zhu Fusheng believes that we should also effectively mobilize the enthusiasm of industrial enterprises to apply 5g network. “In the demonstration application stage of 5g industry application, the demand of vertical industry for 5g network is not clear enough, and they do not know enough about the technical characteristics, security and business model of 5g network. Therefore, many industry enterprises first apply 5g network to production auxiliary links and less transform core businesses.”
With the deeper integration and application of 5g and the industry, it is necessary to fully show the benefits of 5g to the transformation and development of the industry, which requires more mature solutions, more flexible and feasible business models, high reliability and security, and lower application costs.
In the application of 5g industry, higher reliability, higher security and clearer business model have attracted attention. For a long time, the network of operators has been dominated by consumer business, and the business model based on call and traffic is more in line with consumer business.
However, when serving vertical industries, due to the huge difference between the business needs and business scale of industry enterprises and consumer businesses, the traditional business model is not suitable for the needs of industry applications. It is necessary to explore a 5g application business model that is more in line with the needs of the industry and has a lower comprehensive cost around the construction and operation of the industry private network.
At the same time, Guangdong also urgently needs to study and formulate replicable and scalable solutions and standard systems for typical industries, so as to promote the industrial chain of 5g applications into the stage of standardized and large-scale development.
“In the demonstration application stage of letting a hundred flowers bloom, various industries and enterprises have adopted different 5g application schemes for application, which greatly promotes the exploration and accumulation of 5g industry application experience, but also makes it difficult for the industry application schemes to unify and form a replicable normative model.” Zhu Fusheng believes that in order to solve the problem of large-scale replication of application scenarios, reduce the difficulty and cost of 5g application, and form a sustainable industrial ecology, it is necessary to create a standard temsector for typical industry application 5g network and promote the standardization and standardization of 5g application.
