5G is emerging as the latest innovation in network connectivity technology, and it is far more advanced than its predecessors. For the more than 60 countries around the world beginning to roll it out, doors are opening to real-time automation, faster speeds, improved mobility, and increased network agility. The benefits these features offer are expected to transform the business landscape, offering new growth and expansion opportunities.
Let’s discover what the use of 5G could do for your organisation.
All new solutions to business challenges
The new era of 5G is one of possibility, with revolutionised and improved core processes unseen in early generations of wireless technology. With capabilities beyond handheld devices, 5G can be used for face recognition software, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and even machinery.
Productivity has the chance to significantly increase and customer demands can be met in a whole new way thanks to real-time control of business operations, more precise business networks, larger capacities and automated processes.
Let’s uncover how.
Connectivity that grows as you do
The more people connected to your network, the more data moving through it. That’s why it’s important your internet connectivity can expand with your business.
5G has the capability to facilitate the increased data volumes that come with a scaling business. This decreases the chances of disruptive latencies that can impact your continuity of service. Plus, with its ability to provide more streamlined updates to your IT environment, 5G can help you scale your technology infrastructure as your business implements new tools while providing suitable cloud capacity that accounts for your changing data volumes.
Improved security measures
5G’s increased capabilities make it possible to implement better cyber security measures for your business network. By using data and machine learning in tandem with cloud-based threat analysis, you can help improve your network’s response time and ability to detect threats.
Then, once these functions are integrated with your existing systems, your IT and internet infrastructure is able to operate with more consistent security. You can also further reduce the chances of an attack with automated, data-driven threat prevention that identifies and isolates infected devices.
Increased expansion opportunities
With faster speeds and larger capacities, 5G can allow you to experience a more streamlined network setup. This comes in handy when opening new locations or starting new worksites, since network-dependent functions can begin much sooner, and things can be up and running faster, even in remote areas.
This same capability can provide the opportunity to test and target customer demographics in isolated areas. Before putting down permanent roots, your network can facilitate the set-up of temporary offices and retail stores so you can track and evaluate the success of your offering in that region.
Plus, remote working personnel can remain better connected to your office thanks to faster speeds. In turn, this helps your team provide uninterrupted service and better equips them to connect with each other and clients.
Access benefits from the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) allows you to track, monitor, and manage communication between connected devices. More opportunities to refine and expand processes and operations can become available when 5G is powering these kinds of innovative tech tools.
Consider the use of a digitised supply chain, where tracking of deliveries and other logistics is simplified. Businesses can identify pain points using GPS tracking, and thereby adapt their processes accordingly. Similarly, IoT can keep better track of the maintenance and repair needs of manufacturing, farming, and construction equipment. This can help reduce costs associated with downtime and extend the life of these assets.
There are a number of other functions that IoT can bring to businesses, including environmental monitoring, autonomous vehicles, and more efficient energy grids, just to name a few. The doors 5G can help open create new possibilities for all types of businesses.
Take advantage of VR and AR
5G can facilitate the creation of wholly new and immersive experiences for customers and staff alike with its support of VR and AR capabilities. For example, the training and onboarding of new employees could be done in a VR environment, running them through a range of scenarios before putting them into a real-life workplace.
Plus, the way customers engage with business offerings can be enhanced with AR and VR – especially for industries in real estate, manufacturing, retail, entertainment, gaming and tourism.
Real estate agents may do multiple viewings at once via VR platforms. Construction companies could create an immersive digital experience that takes their customers through a build and allows them to review changes in real-time. By simply interacting with a screen, beauty and fashion retailers could demonstrate what certain products, styles, or services might look like on a customer. There are many possibilities for a variety of industries to leverage.
Discover more about 5G with TBTC Victoria East
At TBTC Victoria East, we are across the latest innovations in business technology and beyond. We’ll assist you in rolling out things like 5G, and other business connectivity solutions that could help enhance the way you operate. Get in touch with us today, and let’s get connecting.
