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Warehouses, factories, etc need private 5G, not Wi-Fi.
by mytailorisrich 2mo ago
Warehouses, factories, etc need private 5G, not Wi-Fi.
- BlackRabbit1 2mo agoIndustrial 5G is super expensive. Also almost impossible to find a vendor that offers all the nice protocol features (Low Latency, native Ethernet tunneling, etc.) in their infrastructure.
- coretx 2mo agoMost don't want you to setup your own APN ;-)
- BlackRabbit1 2mo agoThat's a standard IoT usecase almost all telcos offer. We have industrial SIMs with our own APN and get a IPSec tunnel to the Telco where we have a dedicated network to see our devices.
- avhception 2mo agoWe have about 20 client devices, I would very much prefer to throw a bunch of APs into the warehouse and it just works - DECT can do it, so wifi should, too. I'd settle for 10mbit/s!
- FrustratedMonky 2mo agoI know what you are trying to say. But they do use commercial wi-fi devices, albeit with a focus on configuring security correctly.
- Dylan16807 2mo agoWi-Fi should be able to do it. Dense 5G uses similar bands after all and they'll go through a couple walls.
- mytailorisrich 2mo agoThe issue is that Wifi offers no reliability guarantees and does not scale when number of nodes grows beyond a relatively low number. So when number of nodes is large and you want to perform critical tasks (e.g. control robots, machinery, etc remotely) Wifi does not work.
- Dylan16807 2mo agoThere's no good reason it can't handle even more nodes, especially since you can have over 50 separate channels. Central control of the frequencies helps somewhat with density but not that much. We can and should fix those flaws. I don't think I trust 5G for sub-second critical tasks either...
- rolandog 2mo agoOr at least prevent WiFi sensing tracking