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Re:5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk by lima on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @02:55PM (#19676268)
> Personally, the industrial 5G IoT applications are far more interesting.

IoT applications are typically very low-bandwidth. The main issue is cost and power usage.

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Re:5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk by TheSoftwareGuy on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @03:58PM (#19676759)
That's one of the big use cases of 5G though. Having a huge number of low-bandwidth subscribers
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Re:5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk by viraptor on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @04:21PM (#19676957)
We've got existing low power, low bandwidth, long range systems. What do you think 5G can improve here?
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Re:5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk by icebraining on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @04:55PM (#19677226)
How many devices can these systems handle?
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Re:5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk by viraptor on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @05:54PM (#19677698)
Depends what you want to do, how you want to communicate, do you broadcast / mesh, uni/bi directional, etc. It's a "how long is a piece of string" situation.

From cheap, slow, long range deployments like LoRa (100 devices sending tens of bytes) to satellite broadcast (any number of synchronised devices), and a few things in between.

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