Qualcomm to Showcase 5G for Uses Beyond Mobile Broadband
It’s too early to say what will “formally define” 6G wireless, but Qualcomm Technologies “will be there just like we’ve been for every mobile technology leap as we continue to drive longer-term research across core wireless disciplines and a growing…
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mix of adjacent technologies,” blogged Vice President-Engineering John Smee Monday. It’s working to enable 5G for “a broader set of industries” beyond mobile broadband, he said. Qualcomm R&D teams expanded their over-the-air test beds to “support enhanced and new features” in industrial and automotive applications,” he said. It continues to “optimize” 5G for industrial IoT, such as supporting ultra-high reliability communication and time-sensitive networking, he said. Qualcomm will show at this week’s MWC Shanghai for the first time “how sidelink communications between devices can deliver broader coverage and higher capacity for IIoT applications,” he said: It’s showcasing how sidelink can complement “wide-area 5G” for advanced automotive applications, such as navigation based on high-resolution 3D maps.