5G to 5T
With 5G network rollout the mobile industry is expected to play a vital role in India’s vision to be a $5-trillion economy by 2025
India’s digital connection is about to become broader and faster with the launch of fifth generation (5G) services, revolutionising country’s businesses, industries 4.0, education and innovation space. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, launched the 5G services on 1st October, 2022, at the inauguration event of the 6th edition of India Mobile Congress, held in Delhi. With the rollout of 5G services, PM Modi has unveiled a target of making India a $5-trillion economy, in the near future. Besides Telecom Minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw and Devusinh Chauhan, Union Minister of State for Communications, those sharing the stage were Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and MD, Reliance Industries, Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises and Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group. Corporate Citizen brings you views and insights of political and corporate stalwarts, thought leaders and entrepreneurs from across industry, on how 5G will revolutionise progress of India’s businesses and its vision to be a $5-trillion economy by 2025
Power of 5G for 130 crore Indians
On behalf of India’s telecom industry, I wish to give the power of 5G to my 130-crore fellow Indians-5G is a knock on the doors of a new era because it’ll open an infinite sky of opportunities for our people. Unlike 2G, 3G and 4G technologies for which India was dependent on other countries, this time, it’s our own indigenous Swadeshi technology playing a major role in 5G. Hence, for the first time, India has created a new history by setting a global standard in telecom industry. I, therefore, congratulate our leaders of our telecom industry and every Indian for this proud achievement. New India will not remain a mere consumer of technology, but India will now play an active role in the development and implementation of 5G technology. India has to play a big role in designing the future wireless technologies and manufacturing related to it.
For us, 5G will not be limited to just providing speedy internet access, but it has infinite capabilities to change lives and provide better healthcare and other services in critical areas. I’m absolutely convinced of the huge potential of 5G technology for the benefit of our poor rural masses and speedy connectivity for our common man.
From just 100 panchayats with optical fibre connectivity, we now have over 170 thousand panchayats connected with optical fibre. I’ve seen how even the poor of the country has come forward to adopt new technologies because technology has become democratic and all-inclusive in its truest sense. The road to this milestone and our all-inclusive, digital transformation journey has not been easy. But, I always had full faith in the understanding, wisdom and inquisitive mind of the common man of this country. Today, whether it’s a small businessman or local artisan, Digital India has provided everyone with a platform to conduct different transactions.
I had a big vision for Digital India mission which stood on four pillars-the cost of devices, digital connectivity, data cost and digital-first approach. This approach led to mobile manufacturing units increasing from just two to over 200 now. From exporting zero mobile phones in 2014, today we’re exporting phones worth thousands of crores. Similarly, India now has the world’s lowest data charges of about Rs10 per GB, down from Rs 300 per GB in 2014.
Thus, we should use the 5G services for the unprecedented growth and economic development of the country because today India is the 5th largest economy in the world. This provides an opportunity for our entrepreneurs, innovators and for every citizen to become part of this transformational journey towards a New India. I’m confident that India of tomorrow will guide the world in the upcoming technology sector and in turn make this country a global leader.
- NARENDRA MODI,
Prime Minister of India
India to soon emerge as a leader in 5G technology
Telecom is the gateway for Digital India. It is the foundation through which the digital services are provided to the masses in this country. Therefore, a strong telecom sector is the need for the speedy socio-economic development of India. The 5G services will bring fundamental changes in many sectors including education, health, agriculture, logistics, manufacturing and banking, to name a few. These are some of those areas where fundamental changes will be seen, as many new opportunities will soon unfold.
To ensure last mile connectivity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has sanctioned a whopping Rs 35,000 crore to take 5G to the nook and corner of this country, insisting that optical fibre cables reach every Indian home. Declaring BSNL as a stabilising market force and allocating a revival package of Rs 165,000 crore for the PSU, he has pushed for end-to- end connectivity. But more than anything else, despite several difficulties, his insistence on Swadeshi for “affordable” 5G technologies is paving the way for India to soon emerge as a leader in 5G technology.
- ASHWINI VAISHNAW,
Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India
Mukesh Ambani
5G is like a digital Kamdhenu
5G is much more than the next generation of connectivity technology. To my mind it is a foundational technology that unlocks the full potential of 21st century technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things,Robotics, Blockchain and Metaverse. In fact, I think of 5G as an acronym for five goals that fundamentally can transform our nation.
First, 5G and 5G enabled digital solutions can bring affordable and high quality education and skill development within the reach of common Indians. This will help young Indians realise their full potential by arming them with world class capabilities and competencies, so that they can earn more and make India globally competitive.
Second, 5G can affordably deliver high quality healthcare to rural and remote areas, by turning existing hospitals into smart hospitals, without much additional investment. This will make services of the best doctors, digitally available anywhere in India and dramatically improve the speed and accuracy of diagnostics and enable real time clinical decision making. All this will enhance health, wealth and happiness of all Indians.
Third, 5G can bridge the gap between urban and rural India, by exhilarating digitisation and intelligent data management of agriculture services, trade, industry, the informal sector, transportation and energy infrastructure. This will create huge efficiencies in all economic activities, making India a hub of innovation and also help us mitigate the climate crisis.
Fourth, 5G can make available the same powerful productivity tools to small scale industries and commercial enterprises, as are used by large capital intensive businesses. This will drive modernization and profitability of all sectors of India’s economy.
Fifth, by bringing Artificial Intelligence into every domain, 5G can power India’s emergence as the world’s intelligence capital. This will help India become a major exporter of high value added digital services and solutions.
Achieving these five goals will trigger a huge explosion of entrepreneurship in our country, which in turn will attract even larger investments and create millions of new jobs for our young people. By harnessing the combined power of demography and digital technology, India can become the world’s leading digital society, creating a benchmark for simultaneously achieving the dual goals of exhilaration of growth and inclusion in development. Exhilaration of growth by making India a 40-trillion-dollar economy by 2047, up from $3 trillion today. And, inclusion in development by increasing our per capita income rapidly to 20,000 dollars from 2,000 dollars per capita today. Therefore, it will not be an exaggeration to say that 5G is like a digital Kamdhenu, the heavenly cow that grants whatever we desire.
The roll out of 5G in India is not an ordinary event in India’s telecom history. It carry’s the key expectations and high aspirations of 1.4 billion Indians. With 5G, India will take longer and faster strides towards “Sab ka Digital Saath and Sab ka Digital Vikas”. India may have started a little late, but I want to assure all of you, we will finish first by rolling out 5G services across the length and breadth of India. And, as an industry we will ensure that we have the highest quality and most affordable rates that anyone has in the world. Today, I want to reiterate Jio’s commitment to deliver 5G to every town, every taluka and every tehsil of our district, by December of 2023.
In todays’ fast changing world, there will be no stopping a resurgent India from soaring to the top, a place that is rightfully ours. India and Indians can’t settle for anything less.
- MUKESH AMBANI,
Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries
Kumar Mangalam BirlaGenerational leap in technology for India
The Telecom industry has been one of country’s key growth engines, catapulting India into the top five economies of the world. It continues to play a transformational role, touching every aspect of our daily lives and work. Today we are set to make a giant leap into the future, driven by the reformist and futuristic policies of our honorable Prime Minister. We are committed to the vision of building the digital infrastructure for the India of tomorrow.
As the honorable Prime Minister launches India’s 5G network here today, the telecom industry will further ignite the digital dreams of 1.3 billion Indians and many thousands of enterprises. It will also set the stage for the country to become a 5-trillion-dollar economy in the next few years, with a trillion-dollar contribution by the digital economy itself. The 5G will augment services at scale and will create impact in critical areas like Industry 4.0, automated manufacturing to creating the connected factory, smart cities, smart automobiles, smart homes, immersive gaming and other innovative business and consumer solutions. 5G will also accelerate immersive education, remote health and smart agriculture, to enable inclusive growth and prosperity in rural India-thus realising the PM’s philosophy of benefit to Antyodaya.
Vodafone Idea is committed to taking India on this new pace of the country’s digital journey. We have 240 million citizens connected to our networks, with 50 per cent of them in rural areas. Our networks have been constantly upgraded, to be capable of smooth and swift migration to 5G. Having taken concrete steps for the 5G ecosystem development, 5G use cases for the Indian enterprises and consumers, and acquisition of 5G spectrum in a very well designed auction, we will soon begin the 5G rollout journey. We will leverage our strong presence in rural India, our enterprise customers, our technology partners and the global experience of the Vodafone Group, for progressively rolling out our 5G network and services, in the coming period.
Today we are greatly honoured that our beloved Prime Minister, will soon launch the Vi 5G use case demonstration. Our unique use case, addresses the need for safe working conditions for workers at infrastructure construction sites, by leveraging digital infrastructure and 5G. It will demonstrate how a high speed ultra-low latency 5G network, can be used in India, for ensuring workers safety and efficiency in the supervision of critical construction sites. I believe the launch of 5G services marks the beginning of an exciting journey for India. As the ecosystem evolves, we will see limitless potential for 5G development and use cases, in the years to come. I thank our Prime Minister for underlining his support to the sector, which is present here today. The Telecom industry will certainly play its role in bringing alive his vision for Atmanirbhar Bharat.
- KUMAR MANGALAM BIRLA,
Chairman, Aditya Birla Group
Sunil Bharti Mittal5G a game changer for India
The launch of 5G is the beginning of a new era and since it is happening during the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, it makes this event even more special. With the untiring efforts of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, this will quicken the pace of the current technological and digital revolution and bring new energy in this country. 5G will open up a sea of opportunities for people, especially in our rural areas.
During the recent pandemic, traffic shifted from cities to villages, and offices to homes, but the country’s heartbeat did not stop even for a second. Credit for this goes to Modiji’s vision for Digital India, which led to an acceleration of services, especially in telecom sector. The Make in India call that the PM made was largely instrumental in showing India the way to aspire for a leadership role, lead to the creation of numerous use cases, in the manufacturing sector too.
The Start-up India campaign led to India producing unicorns around the country. Thanks to his initiatives, today we’re home to over 100 unicorns with a total valuation of over $340 billion. 5G, I’m sure, will pave the way for thousands of new entrepreneurs and also create dozens of new unicorns too.
Airtel makes a commitment to deploy 5G services across most cities in India by March 2023, and across the country by March 2024. But, as on today, we’ve started it in eight cities.
- SUNIL BHARTI MITTAL,
Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises
5G will have a big role to play in the advent of industry 4.0
Going forward, I would say that there are many things which would probably happen and continue to happen on the consumer side, which may be gaming, which can happen faster, but healthcare, driverless cars, these things probably will take time to evolve. What I see as happening in a shorter time period, is the advent of Industry 4.0, and 5G will have a big role to play in that, because 5G brings features like ultra-low latency, Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC), and you have the ability to slice networks. All these features will actually contribute to automotive manufacturing, in a manner which was not possible otherwise. Probably somethings which could be enabled by these technologies and 5G, which was impossible to do before. So, I would expect that in the years to come, in manufacturing and automotive manufacturing, including IoT and industrial IoT would be one of the main drivers of technology being deployed for the betterment and this could bring a lot of efficiency and productivity improvement.
- Akshaya Moondra,
CEO, Vodafone Idea Ltd
The adoption of 5G in India is going to be phenomenal
What we see from outside of what’s happening in India is - the energy level I see here at IMC is phenomenal. The adoption of 5G in India is going to be phenomenal, it’s going to be faster than anything you have seen in the world. In India we feel that people are more willing to adopt newer technology at a much faster rate. We see there are around 200 startups here and a large ecosystem of developers-it feels good that we can collaborate in India with a significant number of ecosystem players. As we see India moving from being a consumer of 5G technology to being a producer of 5G technology, it feels like the aspirational goal for India is to produce that 5G technology and export outside to the rest of the world. And if you want to do that, you need to be able to pull in more talent into the industry.
- Salil Raje,
SVP and GM, Data Center and Communications Group, Adaptive
and Embedded Computing Group, AMD
India is going to be a producer of 5G technology
We have been talking of 5G in India for quite some time and it’s amazing to see that it has been launched. But, if you see around the globe, 5G has been there for quite some time. But, all these 5G launches that has happened around the globe in past couple of years, they have been powered with the technology that is being built in India. So, I feel that it is time for us to basically power our own operators and our own operators actually use Indian tech companies to basically launch these 5G services as soon as possible. It will probably take some time, but I think the Government has been playing a very key and pivotal role in basically supporting all these initiatives. I think this ecosystem is in the right spot, where all of us have the same vision and we are working together. India is not just going to be a consumer, but it is going to be a producer of 5G technology. I am looking forward to all the great things that is going to happen in India.
- Naren Narayana,
MD and President, Rakuten Symphony India
5G is not hyper connected but it is beyond connected
One paradigm shift that has happened between 4G and 5G is, 5G is not actually hyper connected but it is beyond connected. When I mean beyond connected, there are two more important contributors of digital in the overall digital value chain, which I call them as holy trinity of communication. Connectivity off course is the backbone, then on top of connectivity there is compute and then there is storage. And so far, historically for 4G and below, connectivity has been a separate vehicle and compute and storage has been independent models. The fundamental change which is happening with 5G is, the connectivity, compute and storage are actually embedded together. So, it’s not only hyper connect, it is hyper compute and hyper storage, right up to the edge, densified as close to the customer.
- Shyam Mardikar,
Group CTO-Mobility, Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited
India has a fantastic opportunity to be a strong driver
Very exciting to be here for the launch of IMC Delhi 2022 and perhaps more for the launch of 5G in India. The ambitions we heard here are very inspiring-this would be great for India and it would be great for the world as a whole as well. And indeed it is a journey-we are starting a journey leveraging what 5G can do. I think now India has a fantastic opportunity to be a strong driver in this ongoing process-it has fantastic domestic market and also possibility to explore applications and knowledge that will be coming about in 5G. A great opportunity for Indian entities to participate now, as the world moves forward.
- Dr Magnus Ewerbring,
CTO, APAC, Ericsson
Fascinating to actually see the 5G use cases here
Where I will spend a lot of time is the connectivity and the infrastructure segment and that’s where I think India now is launching 5G. So, it has the opportunity to kind of look at what has happened in other parts of the world, and take those lessons. Also, one of things that was intriguing and I found it very fascinating was of what happened during the inauguration of IMC Delhi 2022. You can actually get to see the use cases-how is it going to be delivered to the common man and then work backwards from the use cases and figure out, how and what kind of a network is going to deliver that kind of experience. How it is going to help the labourers building the metro tunnels and the education sector. So, you kind of work backward, which has not happened anywhere else in the world. This is kind of great way to start this event and also start the journey towards 5G.
- Puneet Sethi,
SVP/GM, RAN Business, Mavenir
5G has thought provoked into starting a revolution
We in this industry have seen transition from 2G to 3G, then to 4G and now 5G. The 5G is the first time when the technology is built for the industry. Yes, 5G comes with higher spectrum, hence the speeds are faster and it also comes up with some work on the latency side, were the latency is lower. A common user will be able to enjoy faster speeds. 5G has thought provoked into starting a revolution.
- Randeep Sekhon,
CTO, Bharti Airtel
5G for Speed, Low Latency and Network Slicing
The 5G is about three very important aspects-Speed, low Latency and Network Slicing. If you look at it from the whole aspect of the system, the speed is required by everybody-so, we will see many more applications. Today, wherein these applications were taking minutes to get things done, it will start happening in seconds. The second factor of reduction in latency will open up very large upcoming use cases, like autonomous vehicles, for which latency is very important. Also, healthcare, remote surgery, education, are very important sectors which will open up due to low latency. The other aspect is Machine-to-Machine (M2M) learning-the amount of data being exchanged between one machine to other will be huge. So, the 5G technology will take forward M2M communication in a very big manner and it will revolutionise the way we do our industry automation, the way we capture information, do predictive analysis-all these processes of Artificial Intelligence, data gathering and measuring will happen in fast and systemic manner, and majority of industries will get automated in near future.
Third aspect of Network Slicing-today what we see is that everything is coming on public networks, wherein there are big data centres. Now this will move near to the customer, in terms of private networks, which will be dedicated small networks in which data will be stored and network-of-networks will be created, where thousands of small network will be conjoined and connected with big networks. So, Processing and Edge computing will bring very big opportunity to everybody.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is playing a big role, as we move forward with 5G launch. We have always played an important role in Internet of Things (IoT) and M2M. So, these are the key areas where BSNL is devoting its focus.
When we talk about urban and rural, I will say, BSNL has always stood by the thought that every citizen has equal right to inclusivity. So, we are playing our role in three big projects. One is BharatNet project, which is completely rural driven project to connect the Gram Panchayats. Second, every citizen of the country should have access to mobile broadband and for that we are going to 30 thousand uncovered places to be covered by mobile broadband. Third, BSNL is expanding its connectivity and coverage to India’s island territories like Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep. BSNL is the entity of the government and as the arm of the government, we are here to serve the people of India.
- PRAVIN KUMAR PURWAR,
CMD, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd
We have come late but we will finish first
It is true that we are late to start in the 5G revolution, but I agree that we will be the first one and probably be the one having maximum coverage in the country, of 5G network, in the coming years. Looking at the way things are moving forward, I am pretty sure that we will cover the entire country in the next 3-4 years’ time with this 5G rollout.
What is going to change? First thing we have to understand is whether there is a demand. There is a massive demand-people are watching videos and there are now almost 100 crore people-we are now getting very close to 100 crore smartphone users mark, in coming years’ time. It would be largest in the world and none of the other countries have so many smartphone users. And then with continuous scale up of economy, the agriculture sector needs 5G, manufacturing sector needs 5G, people living in the villages also need 5G, so everyone is going to consume 5G to get benefit. In the agriculture sector, I am sure that 50 crore farmers will use online applications, to get access to knowledge about what, when and how to sow, and their photos and videos will get uploaded. So, when real-time image and video processing will happen and all that data will be analysed, Edge conputing will definitely need a very robust 5G network, because you will have lot of Edge networking happening. World’s largest IoT project is currently happening in India-the Smart Metering project which is happening in India at the moment is for 25 crores Smart Meters, which will be implemented in the next five years’ time. So, lot of real-time analytics would happen with all that data that is going to be generated. Autonomous drones and vehicles are going to come in India in next 5-10 years’ time. So, Edge is going to need a very strong 5G network and I am pretty sure that we will have the best Edge network in the world in next 10 years’ time.
At the moment at ESDS Software Solution, we play a very crucial role. The world’s largest Smart Metering project that is happening, is running from our cloud platform. India’s largest Oracle database runs from our cloud platform. In the farming sector we have got agri-tech solutions and more than 400 cooperative banks which serve the agriculture sector, are our customers. Over 250+ government customers are our customers and 160+ listed companies are our customers. So, we are playing a very crucial role in digital transformation of India. We have an aspiration to connect one billion smart devices to positively transform one billion people. Till date we touched lives of 650 million people in India, so we are very close to achieving that target. And we want to plant one billion trees also-we want to make sure that with technology we don’t lose the green cover. So, we are also contributing significantly in improving the green cover of the country.
- PIYUSH SOMANI, FOUNDER,
CMD & CEO, ESDS Software Solution Ltd
Helping startups use 5G to solve local issues
As part of Qualcomm’s regional strategy and ecosystem development efforts, we are working with the Indian start-up ecosystem to help them develop solutions – it could be apps, hardware, software, or entire systems, that use 5G to solve local issues. This 5G showcase at our booth, focuses on non-smartphone use-cases developed by start-ups across different verticals, ranging across Health and Wellness, Industry 4.0, Extended Reality, Automotive and Space technologies. These start-ups are a part of the Qualcomm® Design in India Challenge (QDIC) programme. We have also showcased a private network, where all of these use cases can coexist, using a sub-6 Ghz 5G network.
We had the honour of showcasing two of our QDIC startups to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. One is AjnaLens, which is working on XR-based vocational training solutions for functions such as painting and welding etc. The other company is Nimble Vision, which is creating solutions for water management, water quality assessment, water resource management, and sewage treatment, using 5G-based technology for detecting overflows and measuring water quality. We believe such solutions can potentially fit nicely into government programmes for smart cities and smart applications.
- RAMESH RAO,
Sr Director, Engineering, Qualcomm Incorporated
5G to Build Innovative Startups
With 5G, computers and internet will be a great level playing field
Yearning to learn and apply technology in various walks of life is a passion that I live every day. The challenges of running a company have taught me many things but the love for technology, has kept me grounded to details. Coming from Imphal, Manipur, I have over 20 years of experience in IT field. I started this company, Awpara Technologies around three years back, making eLearning videos for the State Government. During the period of Covid pandemic, we did a lot of videos for the Government of Manipur. We made around thousand videos from Class 6 to Class 10 and in process we found that editing takes lot of time, especially if it involved high quality 3D content. While thinking over on how to simplify this whole process, we got the idea of using Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR).
Awpara app is an AR based platform that aims to help educators create enhanced video lessons and tutorials. Embedding AR objects within the video greatly reduces the cost of creating these contents by reducing post-editing activities. This product is incubated under OctaNE, an STPI initiative. With this app a teacher sitting anywhere can create awesome engaging videos, using a AI enabled smartphone device.
After a teacher makes these videos, the big challenge for him/her is uploading these videos online and sending out to their students. For students and teachers, access to internet itself is a problem, if they are staying in remote rural areas. With coming of 5G network, huge possibilities open for startups like us. We can live stream these videos and students can get high quality videos-it will change the whole education system. I come from Manipur and East India, which is less developed than rest of India and if 5G network reaches remote places here, it will revolutionise education and help startup like us which aims to help the educators.
- AILAN MAIBAM,
Founder, Awpara Technologies Private Limited
As the 5G towers grow, we will also grow in capacity
We basically are into reprocessing of EV batteries into energy storage solutions and telecom sector happens to be a big beneficiary of it. Now as we are moving into 5G almost nationwide in near future, the density of telecom towers will be massive. We are going to deploy lakhs of telecom towers all over the country. Which means each of these towers need battery backup. On an average, one tower requires up to 5 to 10 kilowatts of backup system-you can imagine how many batteries we will need.
We as a company would take end-of-life automotive batteries, from electric buses and cars, which are actually quite good when they retire from vehicles, to be used for stationary systems for another five or even up to ten years. Instead of wasting those batteries, we pick those batteries, find out good cells in it and rebuild systems which can last for another 5-8 years, in places like telecom towers. These are about 40 per cent cheaper and offers same performance as new ones, for energy storage applications.
Now we will be also consuming 5G services while monitoring these batteries and sending data upward. We are now scaling up our production capacities in conjunction with auto OEMs, who are in market selling electric vehicles. We build to the requirements of 5G towers and as the 5G towers are growing we are also growing in capacity to deliver the energy required for the telecom ecosystem.
We are a four-year-old company, based out of Bengaluru, looking forward to scale up from here on. This started as a DIY project in 2017, when we thought of using laptop cells, to build small system for handcart street vendors, who were struggling with kerosene lamps-that’s how we started our journey. As these laptop cells are wasted and discarded, we found two out of three cells are good and used them to rebuild systems. But, because of small systems, economics was not working and then we slowly scaled up to bigger systems and that’s when we got to electric buses and cars. Now after four years we have grown and are known in India and globally, and are thankful to the Government of India, to provide some startup funds, we have come till here to be able to build such a big solution.
- DARSHAN VIRUPAKSHA,
cofounder, Nunam Technologies India Pvt Ltd
The major use of 5G is into the connected mobility
The major use of 5G is into the connected mobility. The technology that we are developing is C-V2X (Cellular Vehicle to everything)-the vehicles are connected over a cellular network, to each other, to a network of pedestrian as well as the other vehicles on road. This can prevent accidents, this can detect accidents and in case of any accidents, you get emergency response also. Then there is another feature like, when your cameras record the accident, the recording can be directly sent to your insurance companies, which can reduce your claim time period. There are multiple sensors in our module, which can 3D modulise your vehicle-this is an Advanced Driver-Assistance System (ADAS) technology. Multiple countries are working on this technology and we are trying to implement this in India also. All the data we will be planning to get into autonomous vehicle-we are currently working on it. The second major thing that we are doing with 5G is we are gathering the GPS and roadmaps data and we will be cloning that data for Navic Satellite System, which will strengthen our navigation positioning sensors.
EraNext is a Pune based company that aims to develop and refine C-V2X technology in the upcoming years-technologies for vehicles and everything, will be designed and manufactured by EraNext. We at EraNext believe in a connected world and being connected can keep you safe. Currently, we have bootstrapped around 1.5 crores and we are in the process of raising funds now. We have also recently tied up with a company, which is into electric vehicle manufacturing.
The 5G technology has a very excellent data transmission and receiving speed. As our technology is based on networks, so when the communication happens between the car and infrastructure, it has to be quick to reduce the accidents and the notification time to the driver-5G will be helpful in that transfer of data.
- RACHIT BHOIRKAR,
Founder and CEO, EraNext Auto Private Limited
5G acts as an enabler to unleash the true potential of IoT and AI
We are into the business of food digitisation, which is used for the processes of procurement, production and distribution-we create the digital infra using IoT to digitise the food movement, quality, quantity, traceability. And then use AI to bring in automation, and blockchain to link what I am eating and where was it sourced. So, 5G plays a big role in ensuring that this distributed food supply chain gets connected-5G brings in the connectivity, speed, the latency required for the infra to work. For example, if I am doing procurement of apples, so using this IoT platformfor the apple crate, the buyer will get real-time information that this is the quality and he will approve it and put the option guess price and buy it. Something like this would not have been possible before 5G.
Having a reliable and fast network throughout the distribution chain, be it our agriculture feeds, agricultural mandis, or be it the remotest schools in tribal areas-when these get connected with 5G, we can have infra which gets activated and real-time connected, to generate real-time reports. The technology already has certain impact using 4G, with speed and latency at a particular level. But, with 5G speed will increase, wherein we are talking about 100x improvement in the performance. So, that has a great impact on what we can achieve. The penetration and impact of such technologies becomes much more holistic
Our Smart Food QC is a device which has multiple sensors and captures the image, temperature, weight and geo-coordinates. For example, if you place the Kinnaur apples, the device will define its grade, average diameter, texture, the quantity and from where it is procured. So, it can go to the procurement centre or a prospective online buyer, who can buy it based on actual digitised true information, rather than somebody putting a representative take. One other use case I want to call upon is midday meals. Digital infra can now also check, what nutrition every child is getting and how it is impacting their growth. This is another example were 5G and IoT working at tandem can play the role of inspector checking every meal in real time. The UdyogYantra Smart Food QC device is much cheaper than putting a person on to the job and more scalable and repeatable because of technology.
We empower businesses with real time monitoring and control of their supply chain and manufacturing operations, through a scalable Industry 4.0 platform. We are supported by NASSCOM Centre of Excellence and we are now at revenue stage. We are looking for next round of funding.
- ANKUR JAIN,
Founder and CEO, UdyogYantra Technologies
Glimpses from Indian Mobile Congress 2022, Delhi
(At the IMC Delhi, 2022, Airtel showcased the exciting future of immersive video entertainment on 5G, recreating in-stadia experience of Kapil Dev’s legendary 175 run innings from the 1983 Cricket World Cup, with immersive video technology over its 5G network)
Future of immersive video entertainment on 5G
Rahul VattsAbout this particular use case, it is trying to recreate a memory. We all know that renowned Cricketer Kapil Dev hit this innings of 175 runs and at that time there was no technology available to capture the moments, so resultantly nobody knows that innings. What we did was, Airtel tied up with Kapil Dev and tried to recreate from his memories, how he played that day, what sort of shots he played and from that using Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), we created a holographic image of his innings. As a result of it we can now see his innings from his own memories. So, this is the power of 5G-this is the technology which are now available. You are able to recreate memories into your forms. How can this be a use case in today’s time-say you are video conferencing today, but in future you will be able to do holographic conferencing. If I am in one place and you are in some other place, we will be able to interact with each other through our holographic images. Same technology was showcased at the inaugural event of IMC 2022, wherein our Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modiji, talked with a real-time holographic image of a girl student from Uttar Pradesh state, and she was able to relate her experience of education to the Prime Minister. You could see the students full virtual image and Modiji was talking with her in real-time.
Kapil Dev’s legendary 175
innings created by Airtels 5G ready networkSo, this is the power of technology and at Airtel we are leading the 5G revolution. Our efforts are to put 5G to best use cases and reach our customers with this new revolutionary technology. Airtel was first company at this event, whose network has gone live across eight cities in the country and we are very confident that we are going to lead the 5G revolution, 5G use cases and give the best proposition to the customers at any point in time.
- RAHUL VATTS,
Chief Regulatory Officer, Bharti Airtel
Wireless fiber-like 5G speeds for your Smart Office
This is a demonstration of Reliance Jio’s Smart Office application. For every office nowadays we need Wi-Fi and internet-this two things we achieved in Jio AirFiber device. This device will give a through-put of 1 GB per second speed and it has got wi-fi, so you can connect your mobile phone, laptop, tablet etc. Jio AirFiber is essentially a wireless plug-and-play 5G hotspot that can be set up at home or office. Advantage is that it can deliver fiber-like 5G speeds without any wires. Its different applications are for, digital signage, surveillance, video telephoning and internet.
The big changes this Jio Air Fiber will bring in the office is that you can setup your office connectivity immediately. If you have surveillance camera, you can control that camera from anywhere-you will not need heavy computer hardware and operating systems, you can instead opt for a virtual PC hosted on the cloud, called Jio Cloud PC.
At Reliance AGM 2022, Jio has already announced the launch of Jio Air Fiber. When 5G network is rolled out, it will be available with different plans.