The potential use cases for 6G technology are considerable.
Autonomous transportation is one of the important use cases receiving much attention. 6G’s low latency will be pivotal for communication between autonomous vehicles and easing traffic congestion.
City traffic engineers believe the bulk of today’s traffic problems can be summed up as:
- Traffic lights and stop signs at intersections
- Large numbers of commuters follow the same routes and crowd popular roads
- Traffic waves which occur when a small disturbance, such as someone unexpectedly braking on a highway, causing a snowball effect that results in following vehicles coming to a standstill.
Analysts believe 6G networking and self-driving cars could make traffic congestion a thing of the past. This is due to 6G’s massive amount of bandwidth that would allow every car in a city to communicate with every other car.
Consequently, city managers envision commuters riding in self-driving cars to work and never encounters a single red light thanks to 6G’s networking capabilities in combination with traffic lights being updated to a central server that the car can access. This would allow the networking, self-driving car to speed up or slow down to ensure that the light is always green when the car reaches an intersection.
Then again, it’s highly probable that traffic lights would be totally unnecessary in the 6G era.
Emergency braking would also be unnecessary resolving the traffic wave congestion issue. With 6G networking, a car that must perform emergency braking could communicate its status and the road conditions to the following cars, giving them advance notice and plenty of time to react without creating a traffic wave.
The importance of 6G networking cannot be overstated when applied to modern traffic issues. One way to lessen the slow and go is by autonomous cars “talking with each other” regarding real-time traffic flow. Areas of congestion could then be avoided with 6G-guided vehicles taking alternate routes to better even out traffic movement.
Of course, 6G doesn’t exist yet – and it probably won’t be active for several more years. (Experts are saying around 2030, but the 6G networking for vehicles may arrive later.)
But the same could have been said about 5G and most other technological advances over the past 50 years. How many organizations would have loved to be on the inside track of important new technologies before their competitors?
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Want to learn more? Tonex offers 6G Technology Training, a 2-day course where participants will learn how the sixth generation standard for wireless communications technologies is expected to support cellular data networks.
Participants also learn how 6G technology is expected to be designed to meet the revolutionary needs of our society, integrated into the 5G network architecture and related wired and wireless communications systems.
In the Tonex 6G Technology Training course, attendees will also examine the 6G Vision, 6G Roadmap, and 6G Technologies being touted for 6G. There’s also a thorough look at 6G Applications Use Cases that will likely be part of the 6G journey.
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