26. 5. 2020
Ljubljana,
Slovenia, 19 May 2020 - Iskratel, the leading European solution provider for the
digital transformation of industries, and Telekom Slovenije,
the leading Slovenian provider of the most advanced ICT solutions, observed the
first tests of the 5G network they have built together to enable the smart
factory in Kranj, Slovenia.
The
joint solution has enabled the development of new business models and the
testing of a smart 5G infrastructure. It connects a number of state-of-the-art virtual
networks for individual business verticals, including smart factories. This is
a key sector enabled by 5G, which will offer manufacturers and operators with
significantly greater control and automation.
Kristijan Melinc,
Sales Director of BU Core at Iskratel, said: "I am very proud we have
deployed a 5G network in our own business environment. We leveraged our
expertise in Core networks and together with our partners shaped a complete
solution that will allow us to address demands for campus networks in various
industries. We were able to learn much more about the intricacies of 5G
applications from our real-world installation rather than from theory or
lab-style test projects."
Telekom
Slovenije's Member of the Management Board, responsible for technology, Matjaž Beričič, MSc, said: “5G is an
evolutionary upgrade of 4G. It enables the development of new and innovative
mobile ICT solutions across industry verticals. Reliable, fast, and responsive
wireless data transfer between devices will enable the industry to stay
flexible and competitive. 4G / 5G technology enables advanced multimedia
services, the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) services and the digitisation
of business verticals - while providing reliability and cybersecurity from the outset.
We plan the public mobile network in such a way that within one smart physical
infrastructure we will enable state-of-the-art virtualised networks for
different verticals - in different ways - as fully virtualised or as a hybrid
public-private, so called "campus" network. With Iskratel, we have
established a reference case in which we will be able to test different
capabilities, implementations and new ideas for new opportunities on specific
use cases."
In addition to both partners evaluating technical
performance, the Institute for Non-Ionizing Radiation (INIR), an independent and accredited national organisation,
also performed measurements of electromagnetic radiation of the 5G base station
in Iskratel's production facilities. Measurements were performed at maximum
base station traffic, with four test terminals that simultaneously performed a
data rate test at the time of the measurements.
"The results of the
measurements show that the radiation exposure at all measuring points is far
below the warning values set by the Regulation on the protection of workers
from the risks related to exposure to electromagnetic radiation and the values
set by Council Recommendation 1999/519/ES on limiting exposure to
electromagnetic radiation (about Hz to 300 GHz),” explained Tomaž Terček, INIR.
Sašo Šimec, COO at Iskratel and EMS Business Unit director, added: “We continue to
develop the smart factory as a key 5G use case. State-of-the-art connectivity
is a cornerstone to establish this and links the real-time analogue world of
the bustling factory with digital processing power that firmly resides in the
cloud, as its nervous centre. Artificial Intelligence alerts our staff of
deviations from the optimal processes and workflows, well ahead of time. Therefore
5G increases the safety of our staff, as well as improving our bottom line. We are
convinced the essential building blocks of this solution can be reused in other
industry verticals and deliver similar value to different kinds of operations.”
For more information about Iskratel, visit:
https://www.iskratel.com/en/. To find out more about Telekom
Slovenije, please see:
https://www.telekom.si/en.