OTA 5G and Beyond Channel Evaluation in a Manufacturing Environment

Low-latency, high-throughput wireless communication will strongly impact industrial automation systems, by enabling reconfigurable manufacturing, and remote process and quality control. The research presented here focuses on millimetre wave communication between elevated base stations and the manufacturing workshop area around a robotic optical scanner. The combination of fundamental channel sounding results and quality of signal parameters obtained from channel evaluation measurements highlights and explains the potential access to multigigabit wireless data throughput in such a challenging radio-frequency environment.