Network infrastructure

for Industry 4.0.

State-of-the-art connectivity infrastructures for ARENA2036 projects

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Matthias Jablonowski

Nokia Solutions and Networks GmbH & Co. KG

Connectivity for the mobility and production of the future

Research needs a network

Since 2020, the network infrastructure provided by Nokia has been available to all project partners in ARENA2036, enabling disruptive innovations and the optimal flexibility of existing industrial use cases

Network technology for Industry 4.0

With Industry 4.0, the demands on factory networks are growing: higher bandwidths, lower latencies and secure communication are essential - both on the production floor, in the cloud and everywhere in between.

ARENA2036 provides its project partners with a state-of-the-art network infrastructure from Nokia. It has been specially developed for networked manufacturing, intralogistics and the industrial metaverse:

  • a 5G campus network, combined with industrial WiFi and edge computing,
  • an industrial LAN based on Passive Optical Networking (PON) technology,
  • optical transmission systems for data center interconnects and
  • state-of-the-art data center fabric solutions for cloud applications.

Specifically, companies and research partners are testing applications such as:

  • the networked control of production machines via 5G (Balluff),
  • the navigation of autonomous mobile robots (AMR) via 5G (Omron, NAiSE) and
  • quality monitoring of production processes in the cloud.

The infrastructure also creates the basis for groundbreaking basic research. One example is 5G Precise Localization, a technology that enables centimetre-precise positioning - a decisive factor for autonomous mobile robots, precise machine control and the optimization of production processes. With 6G sensing, research is going one step further: future 6G networks will not only transmit data, but also actively record their surroundings - for example by analyzing electromagnetic waves to detect objects or movements in real time. These advances could revolutionize industrial production by making processes more autonomous, safer and more efficient.