Telecom service providers like Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio,and Vodafone Idea are looking at Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things to back for the fifth generation field trials for Indian focal use cases following the allocation of the trial spectrum.
Delhi aimed telecom group feels that the technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR) ,IoT, AI, and Augmented Reality (AR) can be potentially used in making 5G aimed local services available over multiple sectors such as healthcare, education and agriculture.
“Internet of Things as a technology, has been thriving since the past couple of years now, and has positioned itself strongly in India for continued growth in the 5G era. Artificial Intelligence can be used in a big way in agriculture,” SP Kochhar, director general, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) told ET Telecom.
Comments from the telecom body have now come close on the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) allocating spectrum in the 700 Mhz, 3500 MHz and 26 GHz bands to create the local 5G-driven use cases.
COAI represents telcos and multinational net-generation technology vendors like Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE, Cisco, Ciena , Nokia and Juniper in India.
Telecom carriers have been asking trial spectrum to explore and showcase India centric use cases that, according to them, can move the commercial launch of next-generation services, and may also amuse huge enterprise users at a time when average revenue per user is not changed.
Consulting firm Delotte, in a study claimed that 5G offers various potential use cases over industry verticals, and that can be listed into increased mobile broadband, massive Internet of Things, and mission critical applications.
“With 5G, pilots wouldn’t be limited to pre-programmed scenarios and locations. Instead, training data could be captured and sent to the cloud for processing, then new scenarios and challenges can be sent back to the simulator as a direct response to their flyer,” he added.
“Algorithms can be used to monitor crop and soil health, where AI-based analytics solutions are used to plan events like crop harvesting, pest control and fertilisation to optimise yields, ” Kochhar added.