Huawei is launching its first commercial 5G indoor positioning solution, which is more accurate than the 5G positioning in 3GPP Release 16. “This allows enterprises to implement reliable, secure, and differentiated Edge-2-Edge 5G positioning in their campuses, injecting new impetus in advancing industry digitalization,” said President of Huawei’s DIS Product Line Marvin Chen.
Huawei uses uplink time difference of arrival and field strength fingerprint-based technologies to ensure indoor positioning can be implemented in both line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight environments.
In November 2021, China Unicom Guangdong verified the effectiveness of Huawei’s 5G indoor positioning in the factory of Midea’s kitchen appliances division in the Shunde district of Foshan, a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province. It tested 5G positioning in one of the warehouses that house Midea’s finished products.
“[We have] verified 5G indoor positioning in many industries, like manufacturing, warehousing, and transportation,” Chen said. The positioning accuracy and reliability allows most business applications to adequately locate personnel, equipment, and materials, he added. “3GPP is now working to increase the accuracy to within 3 feet to fulfill the requirements on higher-accuracy positioning in various industries,” added Chen.
By J. Sharpe Smith, Inside Towers Technology Editor
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