At a recent industry event, Huawei released its eLTE SmartCampus solution that is tailored to enterprises in the port management, mining, and manufacturing sectors.
The wireless smart campus solution is designed to support automated production, intelligent logistics, and more efficient management - what Huawei calls as 'Enterprise Campus Communications 2.0.'
The rapid development of communication technologies over the past two decades has given rise to a paradigm shift in the way people communicate, while at the same time helping enterprises evolve towards Industry 4.0 , or the use of Internet of Things (IoT), cloud technology, and cyber-physical systems to create "smart" factories. To accelerate their digital transformation, Huawei said that enterprises need reliable communication networks that can support a full range of critical services throughout the production, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, management, and dispatch stages of their workflows.
According to Huawei, in the Enterprise Campus Communication 1.0 era, companies support their campus operations with wired networks, or wireless networks based on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. While these technologies have played an important enabling role, they are not without their drawbacks. Wired networks are difficult to deploy and costly to reconstruct, for example, whereas traditional wireless technologies offer limited coverage and do not support handover between cells, resulting in poor network stability. Furthermore, enterprise networks are typically composed of multiple communication networks, which complicates data sharing and O&M.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a key enabler of Industry 4.0. As they proceed with digital transformation, enterprises often struggle with interconnecting widely dispersed in-plant devices and uploading massive amounts of sensor data. Huawei’s eLTE SmartCampus solution supports up to 200,000 narrowband IoT connections per square kilometer, with a total coverage of up to 10 km. This enables the transmission of vast amounts of data that, through the power of big data analytics, can be used to inform the automation of production processes.
Huawei claims the eLTE SmartGrid solution has been verified in commercial use in major ports and mining sites across China. In addition to reducing management costs, optimizing modes of production and management, and enhancing production efficiency, eLTE SmartGrid has been proven to effectively accelerate the digital transformation process.
Prior to this release, Huawei launched its eLTE Broadband Trunking solution for the public safety domain.
Peng Jianhua, President of Huawei's Enterprise Wireless Domain
Huawei’seLTE SmartCampus applies 4.5G wireless communication technology to the construction of enterprise campus networks. It is designed to help enterprises of all shapes and sizes build an integrated smart network with industrial-grade reliability, which will enable them to evolve towards automated production, intelligent logistics, and more efficient management.
