Bengaluru, which has become the second home for Nokia, played host to the technology company's Innovation Day 2016 earlier this week.
At its annual Innovation Day, Nokia demonstrated how it is making IoT (Internet-of-Things) a reality for smart cities, and public safety. The demos showcased how to manage the connectivity of myriad people and things, and how to eliminate "slow and complex" from creating IoT applications - and how it can be done in a secure manner.
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Some of the demonstrations included Smart Parking, it's a smart city initiative that offers vehicle tagging to the respective slot and pre-booking. Nokia also demoed Video Analytics, which is used for real time city surveillance. It also showcased public safety initiative related to railroad crossing trespassing detection, which ensures safety of the people.
Nokia also showcased live demo of the company's 5G telecommunication technology development. It's 5G network speeds were able to reach as high as 10Gbps and the latency was extremely low, which are considered the two driving forces for the new applications that use massive broadband capabilities. 5G is considered to be the platform enabling growth in many industries, ranging from the IT industry to the car, entertainment, agriculture and manufacturing industries.
In the demo, Nokia used 5G autonomous model car to highlight the low latency and ultra-reliability aspects of 5G technology developed by the company.
5G pilot launch is expected to take off in 2018 in South Korea and probably be made available for public consumption in multiple countries around 2020.
International Business Times India asked Nokia representative on when we can expect the 5G in India. Executive replied that the deployment of 5G service in the country depends on the willingness of Government and network carriers. If they auction required spectrum in a next couple of years, we can expect 5G service to take off in India around 2020 or by the end of 2022.
