Successful Integration of Camnexus LPWAN Massive IoT Solution with 5G Technology
Cambridge, June 2021. The participation of Camnexus in the first CW 5G Testbed validated 5G uplink as a new feature of the Camnexus LPWAN gateways: KUBO800© and KUBO900©. In a simulated scenario of Massive IoT the integration with 5G allows the incorporation of new capabilities, including low latency for critical operations with high reliability. Moreover, Camnexus carried out one of the first international online video conference between the United Kingdom and Chile.
The CW 5G Accelerator Programme
This demonstration was carried out within the framework of Camnexus participation in the 5G Accelerator, the first private 5G testbed programme for British companies organised by Cambridge Wireless and Huawei in UK. This demonstration is incorporated into the series of tests carried out by Camnexus to validate the integration of the Massive IoT capacity of its IoT LPWAN solution of low power sensors dedicated to the industry for the efficient management of assets and critical processes, with a link to 5G allowing a real-time data transmission and international HD live streaming communication.
Camnexus, is an English technology company that develops and integrates low-power solutions with the aim of supporting companies in the water, food and energy sector, to achieve their sustainability objectives, and to have a positive impact on people and on the planet. Camnexus has developed dedicated LoRaWAN IP68 (KUBO©) sensors and gateway for industrial operations, today with four LPWAN networks in Brazil, Chile and the United Kingdom. As one of the three selected companies in the UK, the objective of Camnexus' tests was, during 12 weeks of the programme, to validate Massive IoT and integrate Camnexus' solution based on LPWAN with 5G. During the programme Camnexus counted with the support of Cambridge Wireless and Huawei engineers and a dedicated business development mentor from Huawei. Thanks to this programme, today Camnexus has a new product and service offering:
More information about the 5G Accelerator Programme can be found here.
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The 12-week tests: A dedicated and reliable massive IoT integrating LPWAN and 5G
The test is based on a scenario of 200 IoT devices that simultaneously deliver data to the Camnexus IoT network through its LPWAN gateway (KUBO©), and from there to the cloud through 5G. This adds a new feature to Camnexus KUBO©, allowing 5G uplink, in addition to 3G, 4G, satellite and fibre optic. The data of the devices can be seen in real time both in a dashboard customised to the client, and through user friendly platforms, with virtual assistants that allows it to receive alarms and also interrogate to know the status of the equipment and processes. This user-centered design makes it easy to use for users in the field who constantly need to know what is going on within a productive plant or operation.
Integration with 5G allows the incorporation of new capabilities, including low latency for critical operations with high reliability. The demonstration shows that after receiving an alarm, the work team connects from Chile to the United Kingdom in real time to verify the system warning and simultaneously the dashboard displays the live streaming of the video of the anomaly area. The Camnexus solution has an intelligence and processing system, which determines whether there is an alert or not. And with information, decide whether to send an assistance team to the operation site.
The image is a diagram of the simulation: Camnexus KUBO (gateway) receives data from 200 nodes who are being sent asynchronously, KUBO sends data in real time to the cloud through 5G uplink. Camnexus servers processed the data that is displayed in real-time in customised dashboard. Simultaneously, a call between the teams in Chile and the UK is occurring, both ends in 5G network. Whilst the team is in the meeting, an alert of anomaly is triggered by the expert system of Camnexus. Camnexus dashboard is enabled with video streaming, after the alert is triggered the team watch in real-time the video from the location of the anomaly. Each video represents 200 simultaneous devices sending data in real time. With this, the saturation of the network is studied, until obtaining 1000 connected devices. The result is successful, without impact on the response times of the data coming from the gateway, providing the desired quality of service, without jeopardising the data transmission of the sensors with simultaneous HD video streaming and conference call.
Integration with 5G allows the incorporation of new capabilities, including low latency for critical operations with high reliability. The demonstration shows that after receiving an alarm, the work team connects from Chile to the United Kingdom in real time to verify the system warning and simultaneously the dashboard displays the live streaming of the video of the anomaly area. The Camnexus solution has an intelligence and processing system, which determines whether there is an alert or not. And with information, decide whether to send an assistance team to the operation site.
The image is a diagram of the simulation: Camnexus KUBO (gateway) receives data from 200 nodes who are being sent asynchronously, KUBO sends data in real time to the cloud through 5G uplink. Camnexus servers processed the data that is displayed in real-time in customised dashboard. Simultaneously, a call between the teams in Chile and the UK is occurring, both ends in 5G network. Whilst the team is in the meeting, an alert of anomaly is triggered by the expert system of Camnexus. Camnexus dashboard is enabled with video streaming, after the alert is triggered the team watch in real-time the video from the location of the anomaly. Each video represents 200 simultaneous devices sending data in real time. With this, the saturation of the network is studied, until obtaining 1000 connected devices. The result is successful, without impact on the response times of the data coming from the gateway, providing the desired quality of service, without jeopardising the data transmission of the sensors with simultaneous HD video streaming and conference call.
The image is a diagram of the simulation: Camnexus KUBO (gateway) receives data from 200 nodes who are being sent asynchronously, KUBO sends data in real time to the cloud through 5G uplink. Camnexus servers processed the data that is displayed in real-time in customised dashboard. Simultaneously, a call between the teams in Chile and the UK is occurring, both ends in 5G network. Whilst the team is in the meeting, an alert of anomaly is triggered by the expert system of Camnexus. Camnexus dashboard is enabled with video streaming, after the alert is triggered the team watch in real-time the video from the location of the anomaly. Each video represents 200 simultaneous devices sending data in real time. With this, the saturation of the network is studied, until obtaining 1000 connected devices. The result is successful, without impact on the response times of the data coming from the gateway, providing the desired quality of service, without jeopardising the data transmission of the sensors.
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Bridging digital and geographical gaps: first 5G video call UK - Chile
As part of the series of tests performed by Camnexus, it was carried out one of the first international online video conference between the United Kingdom and Chile. The video call was made successfully with an end-to-end 5G link between Chile and the United Kingdom, powered by Huawei in the UK, and thanks to the support of Espacio 5G and Entel. Through this collaboration, the partners seek to promote solutions that involve new networks and new technologies for the industry, detecting what capabilities there are to integrate different technological solutions such as the one used by Camnexus of low power IoT with a vision of sustainability in a 5G network.
Camnexus’ participation in CW’s 5G testbed allowed us to research and gain valuable insight of this new technology and how this can be implemented in industrial IoT. "Camnexus has developed IoT solutions, based on wireless long range IoT network, for urban, rural and underground scenarios, which includes IoT nodes and gateways, enabling scalability of thousands of connected devices. Our nodes, with functionalities that replace legacy data loggers traditionally used in the water utility and environmental sector, have the versatility of multiparameter measurement. With the emergence of 5G and the advantages it offers for massive M2M deployments, low latency and private data network, Camnexus’ participation in this 5G testbed will allow us to research and gain valuable insight of this new technology and how this can be implemented in industrial IoT. By adapting our Camnexus Node and gateways to 5G technology we will test the low latency data transmission functionality of our devices, assess data collection and integration with Camnexus platform, visualisation and alarm."
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About the technologies
The testbed validated 5G uplink as a new feature of the Camnexus LPWAN gateways: KUBO800© (for European and African market) and KUBO900© (for the Americas and Australian market). In an equivalent simulated scenario of Massive IoT of 600 devices connected, including 200 nodes and two HD video streams, 5G was shown to have higher reliability. The result is a versatile Camnexus IoT LPWAN-5G infrastructure and seamless solution for clients looking to integrate real-time or higher bandwidth applications in a dedicated massive IoT solution that can secure existing infrastructure.