SHENZHEN, Aug. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2024, the low-altitude economy will be written into the government work report as a "new growth engine", and the low-altitude economy will form a trillion-level market scale in the future.
The low-altitude economy covers UAVs, electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft ( eVTOL), low-altitude logistics, air traffic management and other fields, RedCap helps the low-altitude economy soar thousands of miles with its characteristics of low power consumption, low cost, small size, and inheritance of 5G native capabilities.
In April 2024, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued the Notice on Carrying out the 2024 5G Lightweight (RedCap) Penetration Action, proposing to achieve continuous coverage of more than 100 cities at and above the prefecture level by December 2024. In October 2023, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) proposed that cities at and above the county level across the country should achieve large-scale 5G RedCap coverage by 2025.
Domestic-based In the commercial planning of the RedCap network, drones using RedCap technology will become a better solution and a "killer feature" for large-scale applications of RedCap.Compared with traditional point-to-point image transmission communication, drones with built-in RedCap solutions can be based on 5G networks, break through the limitations of complex surrounding environments and distances, realize long-distance communication in complex environments, complete long-distance drone operations, and empower drone logistics, urban inspection and other services.
meantime With the support of this uplink rate, the UAV can be hoisted with a 360° panoramic camera for multi-dimensional shooting, realizing real-time transmission of 4K or even 8K ultra-high-definition images, and a higher frame rate image transmission brings a smoother shooting and video scene experience, expanding the application of low-altitude economy in geographic survey, large-screen high-definition monitoring, etc.
Compared to 5G, RedCap achieves key advantages such as low cost and low power consumption by streamlining RF components and antenna design.
According to the relevant extrapolation, Compared with 5G eMBB, RedCap achieves the same functionality while reducing the baseband and RF design size and power consumption by about 40%. Compared to LTE Cat.4, RedCap also consumes 10%-20% less power.RedCap's optimization of power consumption enables low-altitude economic terminals such as drones to achieve longer standby time flights. As a lightweight 5G, RedCap also retains 5G-native features such as large bandwidth, 5G LAN, network slicing, and R17 high-precision positioning, providing large-capacity, high-reliability, and high-security network performance for low-altitude economic scenarios.
In order to solve the problem of network interruption at low altitude cruising in remote or complex areas, the original 4G drone uses two sets of Cat.4 cellular solutions to achieve multi-operator network connection. However, this method often increases the power consumption, size and cost of the flight equipment, and is not convenient for internal hardware design.
The RedCap solution is expected to support DSDA (Dual-SIM Dual Active) with a single baseband, that is, a set of cellular communication solutions can provide two data communication links for flight equipment that can work at the same time, switch the networks of different operators in real time, and reduce the weak signal connection scenarios caused by cell remote points or cellular blind spots. In the future, with the continuous maturity of technology and the continuous expansion of the market, 5G RedCap will play an increasingly important role in the field of low-altitude economy.
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