A technology for remote control of a "smart" factory on the other side of the Earth has been created

The basis of the created system is ultra-low latency communication technology. Communication delay at a distance of more than 10

000 km is less than 0.3 s.To achieve this result, South Korea's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) combined the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology's smart factory with the University of Oulu using 5G test networks.

The core of a smart factory, according to researchers, isis a remote control of processes in which robots perform assigned tasks. To prevent potential damage due to errors, such a system must minimize communication latency and data loss, although data transfer speed is also important. 

In their demonstration, the researchers showed a networkwhich meets the specified requirements. The communication delay during data transfer was less than 0.01 s in Korea and did not exceed 0.3 s in Finland, which allowed remote operators to receive all the necessary information about the state of production and control robotic complexes. 

ETRI demonstrated the operation of a remote production and order management system, real-time facility management and a status monitoring service via a remote panel.

The developers believe that the new technologywill help to effectively use idle equipment in every industry with the help of remote control. For example, small and medium-sized companies from all over the world will be able to rent the production facilities of a smart factory and remotely manufacture their products.

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