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video surveillance , remote management of machinery through video channels , communications between production sites , the control centre and beyond .
Nokia ’ s industrial-grade private wireless connected digital mine solution , including 4.9G / LTE and 5G core hardware and software , Flexi Zone Micro LTE and Nokia AirScale 5G base stations , also features a special solution for mission-critical group communications . Project partners included the telecom operator Tele2 , Qualcomm and SPBEK-Mining .
5G “ Working with a chipset manufacturer like Qualcomm is very important ,” highlights Laguna . “ That chipset will be placed in many other devices , so we are going to be able to connect multiple things . The success of that ecosystem is about realising open standards . The use of the 5G mmWave spectrum opens up a wide range of new opportunities in all stages of mining . Ultra-fast data rates to smartphones and computers powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets are critical to both improving workplace safety and increasing efficiency by instantly transferring information directly to corporate cloud storage .”
Nokia aims to encourage collaboration by rejecting the proprietary approach taken by other vendors . “ We want to give our customers the flexibility to embrace 5G by being able to choose from a variety of devices that follow open standards ,” pledges Laguna . “ Options are the key to being able to select the right rugged comm ’ s devices for your operations , so chipset and device manufacturers ( such as Compal ’ s 5G laptop and Motorola ’ s edge + smartphone both based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset ) are a vital component for delivering an end to end solution via our open architecture .”
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