As Industry 4.0 concepts meant to optimize efficiency in sectors like manufacturing, utilities, mining and more gain interest and adoption, private networks, including 4G, 5G and Wi-Fi, are emerging as a key piece of a bigger puzzle. Keeping in mind the highly-variable needs of vertical- and use case-specific applications, many industries combine private connectivity with edge computing and AI/ML-based systems to automate decision-making processes and actions.
But let’s start at the beginning—what is the key consideration in developing and deploying a private network? “The first and most important thing is to make the private network deployment more flexible, more streamlined,” Qualcomm Senior Director of Technology Xiaoxia Zhang told RCR Wireless News during Mobile World Congress 2023.
