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Ask HN: What products and technologies will made possible and feasible by 5G?

1 points by ThomPete 8y ago

JPLeRouzic 8y ago
Because you ask, here is an idea: We are still using browsers, which offer flat surfaces and sounds that everybody can listen too. 1. With 5G, one camera, two micro beamers and two sets of micro loud speakers, you can look at movies in 3D, even in a cramped place and hear beautiful sounds that people around will not hear. 2. You can send in real time 50 biological markers that are measured by the daily pill that you ingest each morning (and defecate later). This enables a health service to monitor your insulin pump as well as your tiny pacemaker and your vagal nerve to control inflammation. There are indeed other usages but I would refrain from mentioning them here.
PaulHoule 8y ago
I think nothing new, but much improved. 5G has a few legs. One is a gradual improvement on 4G telephone service. Another is millimeter-wave, which is mainly a competitor for cable. Another leg is support for greatly reduced latency, not just from the "air interface" but from the network interconnecting towers and other infrastructure in the cellular network to the internet. Once they get it down to less than the latency (maybe 30 ms or so) that it takes to reach major "cloud" datacenters, there is the issue that you can only get the value if your services are running on a server that is physically close to the cellular network. Discerning gamers might notice a difference, but will they pay AT&T and American Tower prices in a world where people think AWS is expensive? Factory automation people have been frustrated for years with their wireless options. They are as averse to running more cables as householders are, but they have much tougher requirements in all respects. Something based on 5G could be better than what they have now. As for IoT the 3GPP (organization behind 5G) has some standards for low-performance access with cut-down LTE radios which have are great in terms of compatibility with existing networks. They will continue that. Personally though I am more interested in long-range IoT protocols that are more related to ZigBee and ZWave than conventional wireless.

1 points by ThomPete 8y ago

Because you ask, here is an idea: We are still using browsers, which offer flat surfaces and sounds that everybody can listen too. 1. With 5G, one camera, two micro beamers and two sets of micro loud speakers, you can look at movies in 3D, even in a cramped place and hear beautiful sounds that people around will not hear. 2. You can send in real time 50 biological markers that are measured by the daily pill that you ingest each morning (and defecate later). This enables a health service to monitor your insulin pump as well as your tiny pacemaker and your vagal nerve to control inflammation. There are indeed other usages but I would refrain from mentioning them here.

PaulHoule 8y ago

I think nothing new, but much improved. 5G has a few legs. One is a gradual improvement on 4G telephone service. Another is millimeter-wave, which is mainly a competitor for cable. Another leg is support for greatly reduced latency, not just from the "air interface" but from the network interconnecting towers and other infrastructure in the cellular network to the internet. Once they get it down to less than the latency (maybe 30 ms or so) that it takes to reach major "cloud" datacenters, there is the issue that you can only get the value if your services are running on a server that is physically close to the cellular network. Discerning gamers might notice a difference, but will they pay AT&T and American Tower prices in a world where people think AWS is expensive? Factory automation people have been frustrated for years with their wireless options. They are as averse to running more cables as householders are, but they have much tougher requirements in all respects. Something based on 5G could be better than what they have now. As for IoT the 3GPP (organization behind 5G) has some standards for low-performance access with cut-down LTE radios which have are great in terms of compatibility with existing networks. They will continue that. Personally though I am more interested in long-range IoT protocols that are more related to ZigBee and ZWave than conventional wireless.