GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale

Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale by prions on Saturday September 02, 2017 @11:54AM (#15156586)

I believe we'll see more interesting solutions in industrial IOT when 5G becomes more widespread and industries can start touching problems that lower latency and higher bandwidth wireless can tackle.

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Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale by TheAceOfHearts on Saturday September 02, 2017 @02:55PM (#15157601)

Can you give an example?

With LTE you get less than 5ms latency, while 5G is promising less than 1ms. However, I think those numbers are under ideal conditions. AFAIK, there's no latency guarantee. Since I'm not familiar with the landscape, I'm having a hard time understanding what kinds of problems are bottlenecked by an hypothetical ~4ms?

The bandwidth improvements are huge, but there's no mention of guaranteed speeds, nor do they mention if the quoted speeds apply to both upload and download. It also important to remember that mobile data is incredibly expensive.

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Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale by cobookman on Saturday September 02, 2017 @11:58AM (#15156610)

For a lot of industrial IoT 4G is more than adequate, the issue is cost per GiB of data and the amount of savings generated.

For most IoT applications all the processing can happen near the edge, with messages going up to the cloud about certain events.

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Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale by EpicEng on Saturday September 02, 2017 @06:41PM (#15158616)

Nothing in this article has to do with speed/performance.

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