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Nokia and UTS target the perfect pint with world ’ s first 5G connected microbrewery
Nokia and the University of Technology Sydney ( UTS ) has announced the successful operation of the world ’ s first private wireless and 5G connected digital microbrewery .
The state-of-the-art facility forms part of UTS ’ s Industry 4.0 research site and enables thirsty researchers to perfect the art of brewing in the 21st century using digital automation . It utilizes a cloud-based digital twin of an actual brewery to optimize the brewing process .
Professor Jochen Deuse , Director of Centre for Advanced Manufacturing at UTS , said : “ Our goal is to promote Industry 4.0 principles to local industry by offering a testbed that gives partners the keys to improve their own manufacturing processes and gain business intelligence . Our international collaboration with TU Dortmund and Nokia allows us to globalize the outcomes of our testbed .”
Tommi Uitto , President of Mobile Networks at Nokia , said : “ UTS ’ s Industry 4.0 facility is an exciting environment for developing and testing new 5G use cases . In the digital microbrewery , we showcase how 5G private wireless networks and cloud-based technologies help optimize the brewing process and move ever closer to achieving the perfect pint .” p
UTS ’ s Industry 4.0 Nano-Brewery , is part of its new Advanced Manufacturing and Industrial Data Science testbed developed at the UTS Tech Lab . The Nano-Brewery forms part of an international production network , with an identical physical twin set up in TU Dortmund University in Germany .
The 5G connected brewery captures and monitors production data at every step of the brewing process and uses this data , together with data from the physical twin in Dortmund and a digital twin in the cloud , to optimize the process .
5G connectivity is provided by Nokia ’ s FastMile 5G Gateways connected to a campus-wide Nokia Digital Automation Cloud 5G Standalone private wireless network . The 5G private wireless network is delivered using multiple Nokia AirScale Indoor Radio ( ASiR ) small cells positioned throughout the UTS Tech Lab campus .
The private wireless 5G network forms part of the on-site Nokia 5G Futures Lab opened in November 2021 and is already being used to support other Industry 4.0 projects within Tech Lab such as the Australian Government-funded Nokia / UTS 5G Connected Cobots project .
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