using wireless toy production facility in a environment · 2020. 12. 18. · the rise of high...

Using wireless technology to help a toy production facility in a challenging Arctic environmentJulie Bradford, Managing Consultant

A mysterious request….

18 December 2020 Confidential & © Real Wireless Ltd. 2020. All rights reserved. 2

Dear Real Wireless,

We would like to commission your advisory services to assist with using

wireless to improve operations at our North Pole toy factory.

The highest priority services required are:

• A broadband connection to other parts of the world – all communication is

via post currently, but elves have requested access to “Zoom” calls home,

Netflix, Minecraft and Fortnite while stationed at our facility.

• Automation of parts of our production line and support of remote training

(to ensure social distancing between workers is maintained)

• Tracking and identification of presents in storage areas so that presents

are not handled during quarantine period prior to delivery

Payment schedule:

2 billion happy children worldwide to be delivered on 25th December 2020

upon successful completion of this project.

Breaking down the requirements


Toy production facilities and main

Christmas operations campus

• Connectivity for standard mobile

phones and devices across the site

• Highly reliable wireless connectivity

for automating machinery and

vehicles on site

• High bandwidth, consistent quality

network to support Augmented

Reality (AR) for training and

inspections

Nearby worker villages

• Broadband connectivity in homes and

to mobile devices

Connectivity to the

rest of the world

Connectivity around the toy production campus


Wi-Fi

connection

Could use Wi-Fi in buildings but what do you plug your access point into?

?

● Need to establish a backbone network across the site first that all buildings and access points inside buildings can connect to.

● Option 1 – lay fibre – difficult in the ice!

● Option 2 – deploy a private cellular network

● But can’t only Vodafone, EE, Three and Telefonica build mobile phone networks?

● Shared access spectrum licences now available in some countries if you want to deploy your own small, low power mobile phone network

Elf

What is a cellular network and what is a private one?


Macro-cells

Small cells

Core Network

Radio Access Network (RAN)

Site transmission (backhaul)

Private standalone core network

Site transmission (backhaul)

How do you deploy a private network?


Standalone private LTE or 5G networks

Hybrid public/private networks

Network slicing in public 5G networks

Proposed deployment


Core network and local film etc. store

Roaming agreement from private network to

Telelfonicia

(to connect client devices to other mobile phone networks when outside the campus)

mmWave

directional

links

between

sites

(mesh)

5G private

network

coverage

Services enabled by your own private cellular network


Distributing public broadband services in a remote elf village

● Getting good mobile coverage in rural villages is not an uncommon problem.

● Planning restrictions and high deployment costs can be amongst the reasons why mobile operators don’t provide mobile coverage everywhere.

● But in 2020 some UK villages have been taking matters into their own hands and deploying their own local cellular networks.


Case study: 5G Create MONeH (Multi Operator Neutral Host) project

• The MONeH Consortium aims to demonstrate how multi operator mobile networks can be used to serve different people in rural areas with little or no coverage.

• The Consortium will test the idea of using currently unused mobile spectrum to offer a service that is both technically and financially robust in areas where conventional coverage solutions are not commercially viable for mobile network operators.

Options for getting broadband connectivity from the North Pole to other countries

1. Fibre

2. Satellite

3. Supercells

4. Microwave

5. High altitude platforms…


Fibre to Norilsk

Fibre to Ishavslink

Fibre to Inuvik

2,500km

SuperCell from Facebook

Engineering

36 sector 250m high cell

site

Up to 65 times the

coverage of 30m

macrocells

But high towers not

appreciated by Arctic

planning team!

The rise of High Altitude Platforms (HAPs) in 2020

● DT and Cambridge based Cambridge Consultants and Stratospheric Platforms Limited (SPL) have developed antenna technology to deploy on unmanned aircraft to have cell towers in the sky!

● Successfully trialed in Germany this year:

● Several test flights were done in Bavaria with a remote-controlled aircraft system using 2.1 GHz.

● The tests enabled voice over LTE (VoLTE) calls, video calls, data downloads and web browsing on a standard smartphone.

● The smartphone was connected to the terrestrial mobile network of DT via the antennas on the aircraft.

● The test showed download speeds of 70 Mbps and upload speeds of 20 Mbps over a channel bandwidth of 10 MHz.

● DT planning commercial roll out by 2024

● Existing client expertise in unmanned aircraft made this the preferred option


Study delivered so now we wait to see if implementation was a success


Thanks for listening and ….


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