Enabling Robots in the Gigabit Society · Enabling Robots in the Gigabit Society Lester Thomas Chief Systems Architect, Vodafone Group Pat McCarthy CMO, CloudOpera IES Infrastructure

Enabling Robots in the

Gigabit Society

Lester Thomas

Chief Systems Architect,

Vodafone Group

Pat McCarthy

CMO, CloudOpera IES

Infrastructure Enabler Systems Europe

Huawei

Gigabit Society Roadmap

Enabling fully automated Drones is a key Robot test case

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Netw

ork

Devic

es

Key a

pplic

ations

High frequency

tradingSmart grid MOOCs

Ambient

experiences

Autonomous

vehicles

100 dollar electronic

genome

Remote surgical

robots

Artificial

intelligence

Smartphones Tablets HD TV Smart sensors Google glasses Google car 4K TV VR goggles 8K TV

2G 3G 4G 5G

www.vodafone.com/gigabitsociety

Wireless network

Fixed network

Copper dial-up ADSL FTTC Docsis 3.0 FTTH Gigabit network

Drones

Drone as a Service Use Cases

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Precision Farming Search and RescueSmart Drone Inspection

Vodafone exploring use cases that demand advances in connectivity

Vodafone Gigabit Society enables the opportunity

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Guaranteed Connectivity LTE, 5G

• High Bandwidth, High

resilience connectivity

• Programmability of the

network

Autonomic Operation

• Orchestration & Assurance for

policy driven autonomic

operation for Machines & IOT

• Machine friendly API’s for

robotic operation

Regulatory Driven Compliance

• Dynamic flight

compliance & control

• eSIM’s in every Drone

Vodafone Open Platform enabled by IOT, Connectivity & Operations

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Drone

as a ServiceZOOM enabled Open IOT Platform

A few Insights . . . • Platform as the Enabler

Machine Friendly, Developer Centric, Registration, Artificial Intelligence &

environment Requirements, Bandwidth on Demand – Management & Orchestration

• Value is in the Data AnalyticsCollecting, Quality, Storage, Sharing, Learning

• More sensors, collects more dataCamera, Infra Red, Air Filter, EMF, Transponders

Ecosystem Driving Use Case Requirements

Smart Drone Inspection Use Case

Sources: CloudOpera IES, Drone & University ecosystem communities

Drone Operator

Drone App

Video Analytics

Marketplace

Assurance

Drone Manufacturer

Search & Rescue

Insurance

Scenario

ModellingUniversity

Research

Analytics

Open Enablers

Service Provider

Champion

SDN

tmforum

Catalyst

Drone

Ecosystem

Cloud OpenLab

& Orchestration

IES

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Smart Drone Inspection with LTE Advanced/5G

What needs to be done in terms of future connectivity for robots ?

Drone OperatorDrone Application

Developer

Amazon

Google, Facebook

IOT / VR / Drone/

UAV Developers

Drone InsuranceDrone Data Analytics

Managed Connectivity:

High Bandwidth, Low Latency

Autonomic

operation

Drone Manufacturer

eSIM

EMF Mast

Inspection

Power Line

Inspection

Agriculture

Inspection

Managed Connectivity:

Hybrid / Public CloudSmart Drone Inspection

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Video Demo on Smart Drone Inspection

Smart Drone Inspection Use Case

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Welcome to Huawei Hall for more information,

Contact us after this panel or via email

[email protected] [email protected]

Lester Thomas

Chief Systems Architect, Vodafone GroupMichael Sungang

VP, CloudOpera IES, Huawei HQ

Pat McCarthy

CMO, CloudOpera IES, Huawei Europe

[email protected] Ecosystem Europe Ecosystem