In order to promote adaptation to the new normal, various measures have been taken to prevent the spread of the pandemic, while important changes are recorded in various aspects of daily life, such as:
– A higher degree of intelligence: For example in public health, there are many more smart temperature monitors in public places.
– Automation: more and more companies exploring “non-contact” operations, including automated production in factories, unmanned logistics vehicles or robots to sterilize public spaces.
– Everything online: telecommuting, virtual meetings and distance education have helped us stay the course of our lives. According to the Boston Consulting Group, more than 100 million elementary and middle school students were able to continue their education online last year.
However, how have you dealt with the impact on digital infrastructure? There have been surges in average network traffic around the world (approximately 50% more). Traffic patterns have also changed, with no important distinction between peak and non-peak hours, the networks are busy 24 hours a day. Traffic hotspots expand from outside to inside and from urban to rural areas.
To answer this, we need a more robust digital infrastructure and to build a more robust infrastructure, we need innovation.
The goal is to more seamlessly integrate the virtual and physical worlds, for a better quality of life, and exceptional progress has been made in the financial, retail, and some e-government scenarios. Now let’s imagine what can be achieved using technology in others, such as education, entertainment, travel, and even navigation.
The experience will be simply incomparable. And for companies it presents countless new business opportunities.
5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cloud technologies can make businesses and production lines smarter, more flexible and more efficient, and could also make significant improvements to the overall work environment.
For example in manufacturing. A palm-sized circuit board can have around 2,500 different components. In the past, manual quality checks took up to three minutes. With 5G, we can use its higher bandwidth to upload HD images from boards to the cloud, where AI-driven quality checks take just seconds, increasing productivity significantly.
These technologies will help create new opportunities for digital transformation in all sectors. By 2025, 97% of the world’s largest companies will use AI in their key business processes. 55% of China’s GDP will be driven by the digital economy and 60% of carrier revenue will come from customers in digitally transforming industries.