Ranplan Wireless recently announced that its flagship product Ranplan Professional software has been used to plan and perfect a 5G Private Wireless Network design for a Smart Factory in Japan.
Ranplan Wireless’ partnership with its local strategic partner Marubun has enabled Sumitomo Shoji Machinex which was responsible for network design, to quickly create a 3D model and visualize the entire factory, including machinery and equipment in the verification experiment conducted by Sumitomo Corporation.
In this project all structures were assigned material information from Ranplan’s library to accurately depict the impact on RF propagation, noting that physical objects naturally reflect or diffract wireless signals.
The 3D RF propagation simulations of the 20,000 square metre Smart Factory provided significant advantages when determining the number of base stations required, the preferred locations and the appropriate antenna tilt, with proper attention paid to vital restrictions on where the base stations could be installed.
Images: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (latter half) FY2020 L5G Development Demonstration Report_No7\Automating Visual Inspection and Remotely Confirming Quality P140.
Miyamoto, Information and Communication Team, Marubun.
With the advent of smart factories, we have witnessed significant growth and uptake of private 5G services in the Japanese manufacturing sector. Ranplan Professional provides our customers with an all-in-one independent network planning platform which is leading the way companies design and maintain their local 5G networks. The ability to precisely model the unique environments and optimise the network designs with the use of 3D RF simulations and productivity-enhancing automation tools has delivered and will continue to deliver substantial time and cost savings for our customers.
Jon Ullmark, Chief Strategy Officer, Ranplan Wireless
At a time when Japan’s quality-minded and highly sophisticated community of enterprises adopt Local 5G to build, maintain and operate dedicated wireless networks tailor-made for amongst others machine-to-machine communications, the need for an intuitive and reliable network planning tool is vital to ensuring the realisation of 5G’s full potential.
