There’s broad consensus among the telco set that the real money to made from 5G will be made by selling solutions into high-value vertical industries. But whether you’re an operator, cloud provider, equipment vendor, or integrator, it’s a tall order to deliver a turnkey solution that would say let a global manufacturing interest transition its robotic assets from wired to wireless.
In that example, you need a network and spectrum. You need some IoT chops to get those robots connected and capture the relevant telemetry. You’ll also need a data platform and localized compute to ingest, understand and take action based on the telemetry.
