HP Innovation Journal Issue 13: Winter 2019 | Page 11

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MANUFACTURING
The next level of next-generation broadband is on its way—5G
will be a full magnitude faster than 4G, which was responsible for
services like Uber nearly a decade ago, and boost network speeds
by up to 10 to 100 times. It will spur new services and tech we
haven’t seen yet and help create 22 million jobs by 2035, according
to research from Qualcomm. It will also help increase econo-
mies of scale and enable the Massive Internet of Things with low
costs, flexible coverage, and low-power needs. For mission critical
industries and others such as robotics and automotive sectors, it
will reduce latency to less than a millisecond and they will benefit
from no lag time between command and action. Embedded inter-
connectivity in many of the products you use every day will also
spur innovation thanks to sensors that collect data on usage.
Building parts through 3D printing and
additive manufacturing will revolution-
ize the manufacturing industry, from
automotive to construction and beyond,
by changing the way the entire product
lifecycle is developed, from pilot run to
mass production to spare parts. Every
company’s supply chain will be changed.
By printing parts using plastic polymers
and metals, companies are able to rapidly
iterate physical prototypes and econom-
ical small batch production, as well as
design and create physical objects that
are unknown to us today.
Businesses are literally scanning the Earth to
produce the data required for autonomous nav-
igation, and as LIDAR (laser imaging, detection
and ranging) cameras are used in everything
from autonomous drones to self-driving
cars, it’s just a matter of time before there’s
an open-standard, real-time 3D model of the
entire world. Imagine this geophysical data
coupled with data from IoT sensors and other
data sources, such as weather. In this rich
tapestry of data convergence emerges a fully
digital facsimile of the real world, perfect for
running “digital” experiments that would
otherwise have never been possible.
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