Overview

In Industry 4.0, smart automation is considered the fundamental requirement for improving the productivity and efficiency of a business. However, smart automation requires seamless, reliable, secure, and in specific cases instantaneous connectivity. There are different methods for delivering such connectivity, but it must also make commercial and practical sense for a business to deploy such a network. Fiber or ethernet connectivity can provide speed, reliability, and capacity. Still, it is not cost-efficient, flexible, and practical for an environment where we have mobile robots and other such applications which don’t always allow for a tethered connection.

Private wireless networks (PWN) on the licensed or shared spectrum offer fiber-like speed, capacity, and reliability, enabling low-latency applications, automating operational processes, and delivering efficiencies not feasible with wired or other wireless networks.