5G millimeter wave to unlock the future of the smart home scene, Qualcomm together with partners to promote the realization of the Internet of Everything

China's 5G construction is undoubtedly at the forefront of the world, as of the end of August, China has built 1,037,000 5G base stations, accounting for more than 70% of the global share, 5G terminal connections of more than 400 million, accounting for more than 80% of the global share of the data show that China has built the world's largest 5G network. The development of 5G is also expanding from consumer mobile terminals to various industries, such as automotive, industrial Internet, telemedicine and the Internet of Things (IoT). The smart home, as the most consumer-friendly part of the 5G IoT, is huge, and a variety of innovative technologies are scrambling to be deployed in the smart home market. Qualcomm's 5G millimeter wave technology empowers the smart home, and together with our Chinese partners, we are promoting a new smart era of life.

Previously, one of the biggest problems in the smart home field was the lack of uniformity in communication standards, with each manufacturer having its own information and communication standards, making it difficult to connect and exchange data with each other. And 5G at the beginning of the establishment of standards to take into account this problem, to solve the smart home equipment to communicate with each other the biggest difficulty. The current 5G standard is also still in continuous evolution. For example, when the 5G standard Rel-15 was released in 2018, millimeter waves were included, and when the Rel-16 version of the 5G standard was established in 2020, the indoor positioning capability was enhanced to solve the problem of indoor positioning of smart homes, and with the upcoming Rel-17 version, the positioning accuracy will be further improved.

The advantages of 5G millimeter wave are ultra-large bandwidth, ultra-low latency, and ultra-large user capacity. In addition to these well-known advantages of 5G millimeter wave, Qualcomm's experts also introduced a 5G millimeter wave advantage, the short wavelength of the 5G millimeter wave, which means that the millimeter wave antenna can be made very small, and more antennas can be integrated into the same device, and through technologies such as beamforming and beam focusing , realizing larger bandwidth and longer distance 5G millimeter wave communication, which will also unlock the various applications of 5G millimeter wave in the smart home. For example, deploying a smart intercom system through 5G millimeter wave can save the trouble of wiring, while also realizing ultra-low latency transmission of ultra-high-definition video images, so that the intercom system can bid farewell to the phenomenon of blurring and lagging.

According to Aowei cloud data research, in 2020 China's smart home industry scale of more than 400 billion yuan, in the face of such a huge market scale, obviously not a few companies can complete the promotion, the need for more companies to participate in. Qualcomm and other mobile communication technology companies, also hope that through 5G millimeter wave and other innovative technologies, hand in hand with industry partners, to promote the development of smart home changes, so that the smart home is no longer an information island, truly realize the interconnection of everything.