| | AUGUST 20238CIOReviewIN MY OPINION5G WILL BE EVERYWHERE By Marko Yli-Pietila, Head of Smart Operations, Stora Enso5G has been advertised as a new key technology for companies. Its key characteristics, compared to 4G, are low latency and high bandwidth. The characteristics are needed in industrial use cases no other technology can handle. There are also many use cases 4G can manage but which 5G will eventually take over. This is because 5G will be everywhere in a couple of years' time.Stora Enso is the renewable materials company. We believe that everything that can be made with fossil-based materials today can be made from a tree tomorrow. We operate globally and we have many factories in several countries. 5G provides us new opportunities to further extend digitalization especially in safety and operations. Because 5G will be everywhere, we will use normal cellular connectivity with 5G instead of 4G. But there are many industrial use cases 4G cannot handle, and there are also new ways to implement 5G compared to 4G. The key value promise of 5G is low latency and high bandwidth. Both are welcome in industrial use. The high bandwidth use cases you need cabling for today can be implemented wirelessly tomorrow. Multiple video feeds for operations monitoring purposes belong to this category. Sometimes video applications require low latency and fast response too. One example is machine vision applications running in cloud. The same applies to other intelligent applications using Machine Learning and Neural Networks for prediction in safety, production and maintenance. You can also standardize your wireless connectivity with 5G because it can replace your Wi-Fi. By standardizing your wireless communication, you make the maintenance of your networks easier and most probably more cost efficient. There are also industrial use cases you cannot implement with any other technology than 5G. At Stora Enso we have identified at least three such use cases. The first one is using high density 360 video cameras for remote monitoring Marko Yli-Pietila
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