Airtel Announces Successful Trial Of 'India's First Private 5G Network' At Bosch Facility In Bengaluru

Bharti Airtel on Friday (16 July) announced successful trial of India’s first 5G private network at Bosch Automotive Electronics India Pvt Ltd (RBAI) facility in Bengaluru.

Airtel’s on-premise 5G Captive Private Network was built over the trial 5G spectrum allocated by the Department of Telecom (DoT), according to a company statement.

"the trial successfully demonstrates Airtel’s capability to deliver high quality Private Network solutions for Industry 4.0," it added.

Airtel has implemented two Industrial grade use cases for quality improvement and operational efficiency at Bosch’s state of the art manufacturing facility, utilising the trial spectrum.

In both the cases, 5G technology such as mobile broadband and ultra reliable low latency communications drove automated operations ensuring faster scale up and reduced downtimes.

"The private network set up on trial spectrum at the Bosch facility has the capability to manage thousands of connected devices along with delivering multi-GBPS throughput," the statement said.

The Private 5G network provides greater reliability, enhanced security and huge flexibility, freeing the operations from wire-dependency to enable Bosch in achieving the benefits of automated operations, it added.

"With Airtel 5G Captive Private Network, Bosch Manufacturing Execution System was able to significantly reduce the time taken to asses the quality through Automatic Optical Inspection (AOI) of surface mounted devices," the statement said.

The process was made efficient by ensuring faster transfer of data over highly reliable and secure network to an AI/ML server for real-time decision making by Bosch Manufacturing Execution System (MES), it added.