Turkcell will start providing 5G-ready private connectivity to its enterprise customers in the logistics sector with the support of Ericsson Private 5G solution
Turkcell and Ericsson said they have successfully performed a 5G industrial use case demonstration of a safe crossing for Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) in a real warehouse environment.
The Swedish vendor noted that the demonstration was achieved over Turkcell’s 5G private network, provided by Ericsson and was deployed in collaboration with local manufacturer of autonomous mobile robot Milvus Robotics.
The use case involved AMRs, Milvus Robotics’ own production SEIT500, that were tested for material handling within the warehouse. The AMR, connected over the trial 5G network, transferred the orders created over the internet to the robots’ joint task manager via an order management system; orders were then transferred to the robots in the warehouse via 5G.
Hasan Ölmez, co- founder of Milvus Robotics said: “We are experiencing a lot of difficulties in the use of mobile robots in industrial environments, especially in wireless communication over Wi-Fi in multi-robot applications. Breakdowns, low speeds, narrowness of the broadcast area of access points, delays in data transfer are the main problems. We think that 5G will be the new standard of industrial communication infrastructure in the near future due to the features it offers and solutions to these problems, and as a result of these tests, we have discovered the performance differences between Wi-Fi and 5G.”
Following the demonstration of this use case, Turkcell said it will start providing 5G-ready private connectivity to its enterprise customers in the logistics sector as well as other vertical industries with the support of Ericsson Private 5G (EP5G) end-to-end solution.
Işıl Yalçın, VP and head of Ericsson Turkey said: “As the demand of industries to connect more devices rises, so does the need for high-quality networks. It is expected that 5G technology will become the standard of industrial communication infrastructure in the very near future, considering the necessity of connections and communications, especially for Industry 4.0 and Logistics 4.0. Working together with Turkcell and Milvus Robotics on this use case, it is evident that the future is very promising.”
This demonstration follows what was claimed to be the first industrial use case demonstration of Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) Safe Crossing in Turkey that was performed earlier in the year in Turkcell’s test laboratory.
This previous demonstration was deployed by using both network slicing from a public network (Dual-mode 5G Core Standalone) and Ericsson private 5G network using 5G SA technology.
The demonstration highlighted the abilities of 5G technology and private networks to enable manufacturers in Turkey to process and manage, using artificial intelligence (AI), substantial amounts of data that allow the free movement of AMRs around the production environment with a high density of connected devices. The demonstration also addressed 5G’s capability to provide real-time data transfer with low latency that will enhance safety across industrial operations.
The “Ericsson Connected Manufacturing: A guide to Industry 4.0 transformation” report highlights AMR’s use in real-time production chain automation as one of the most important use cases in an enterprise’s Industry 4.0 transformation journey.
In this report, Ericsson and Hexagon examined five different smart manufacturing use cases that will enable manufacturers to conduct their operations more efficiently: autonomous mobile robots (AMR), collaborative robots, digital twins, augmented reality and asset condition monitoring.
