They then get a price.
In reality, there’s no need for 5G technology in order to obtain the data we’re looking to gather onsite, Lamont says.Still, that’s primarily what we’re hearing about these days.
In actual fact, what we really need are low-power devices to gather information about simple things.We need to know where a particular machine is located, whether it’s vibrating, how noisy it is, and what the light and temperature readings are.. All of this information can be done on devices that are already in plentiful supply.All that’s needed is something like a LoRaWAN network to connect to.
LoRaWAN is a long-range, wide-area network on a different frequency band to WiFi.As a result, it doesn’t compete with cell phones and other devices connected via WiFi on construction sites.
As LoRaWAN is very long-range, it enables construction sites to be quite remote, representing great potential for Australia where it’s not unusual to travel five to ten hours to a site.
Europe is already covered in LoRaWAN with something like 10,000 gateways across Europe, over 1,000 in Australia, and around 800 in the U.S. One barrier which presents for the latter, is that their cellular network, which runs across states, makes it difficult to talk between networks.That sort of behaviour and thought process isn’t really acceptable anymore.
The owners want transparency.They want certainty around the data.
She believes the heart of this may come from the fact that “data is the new oil, the new currency.”.It’s hard to get certainty around processes that change every single time, Marks says.