HARNESSING 5G

5G is in its early phase, with the launch of one of the first commercial networks delivering next-generation phone service to millions of people. But it is only the tip of the iceberg of things to come. Adding connectivity to anything fundamentally changes its nature and offers a new world of possibilities. What breakthrough market applications might be down the road by harnessing 5G applications? Like a superhighway under construction, you don’t know what kind of businesses will pop up once you build it or how it will transform our lives.

Here’s how we see the 5G future unfold from the vantage point of today.

 

A Vision for the Impact of 5G, Featuring Joe Barry

Joe Barry explains ADI's impact on harnessing new 5G market applications. With unmatched technical expertise, deep customer partnerships, and the ability to anticipate future market demands, ADI is poised to play an important role in harnessing 5G.

Enabling the Factory of the Future

Enabling the Factory of the Future

A 5G wireless network will bring better reliability, reduced lag time, and increased efficiencies to the factory floor. In a world where people and robots coexist, enhanced connectivity will improve human-to-machine interaction and reduce the risk of accidents.

Delivering High-Quality Healthcare to Rural Areas

Delivering High-Quality Healthcare to Rural Areas

Universal 5G connectivity offers the potential of remote patient monitoring via wearable biosensors that monitor vital signs and transmit information to a cloud-based diagnostic engine. The system receives, interprets, and acts on anomalous signals—saving lives.

Driving Progress Toward Fully Autonomous Vehicles

Driving Progress Toward Fully Autonomous Vehicles

5G’s real-time speed enables the incorporation of out-of-vehicle information about traffic patterns, road pedestrians, other vehicles, and even road conditions. The result—improved safety and saved lives.

5G’s Environmental and Lifesaving Benefits

5G’s Environmental and Lifesaving Benefits

ADI sees a 5G future where remote monitoring helps ensure clean water, diminishes food scarcity, and improves public safety through timely warnings about floods, earthquakes, and mudslides.


No matter how the future shapes up, Analog Devices will be there—helping innovators rethink systems, unlock business models, and evolve emerging applications. ADI has not only contributed to communications advancement for 2G, 3G, and 4G, we enabled every major field test of 5G and created the leading technology to make 5G a reality.

With breakthrough applications at our doorstep, the opportunities have never been greater for forward-thinking businesses to change the world. To meet the complex challenge of innovating in this new world will require an ally with market insight, deep domain knowledge, and the engineering chops to help navigate the complexity of 5G transformation. With a 50-year heritage of harnessing the future, ADI is focused on delivering core sensing and measurement technologies to bring new 5G applications to market, faster, at a lower cost, and with less risk.

Three Ways 5G Is More Than Just Fast Video Streaming

The promise of 5G will dramatically remake existing markets and open up new ones. The most exciting opportunities will increase access to high-quality healthcare, create a factory where people and robots coexist, and speed our way to fully autonomous vehicles featuring enhanced safety.

Read ADI CEO Vincent Roche's Perspective

2020 5G Trends & Predictions

2020 will bring significant advancements in 5G’s rollout along with a widespread influence on global commerce, according to Alberto Van Burgh, general manager of Wireless Systems for Analog Devices. Mr. Van Burgh forecasts new opportunities in the B2B and B2C sectors, including a vast expansion of private networks, the advanced use of robotics in factory settings, and fixed wireless access for fast internet in the home.

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