Monday, July 12, 2021

Future of embedded 5G in commercial products?

Do you think that commercial vendors will start embedding 5G connections in things like medical devices?

Based on my reading of the specs, it seems like this would be an attractive way for vendors to support direct connectivity to their cloud-based software environments without having to rely on their customer sites to support network connectivity. Instead, the vendors could include pre-configured 5G connections on their devices and have customers pay for it as part of their service contracts--the instruments would then only require power connections at the customer site. Depending on how widespread this is, it seems that this strategy could eliminate the need for a lot of networking jobs especially in small to mid-size businesses.

I haven't really heard anyone else talking about this, so am I off-base here or actually seeing what's next?



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