China Mobile and industry partners jointly released the "Indoor Positioning White Paper"

On the morning of June 19, China Mobile, together with ZTE, JD Logistics, Huawei, Tsinghua Research, Ruijie Networks and other industry partners, officially released the "Indoor Positioning White Paper" during the "Innovation 2020 Cloud Technology Week". In recent years, location service capabilities have become the basic capabilities of all walks of life. Operators are in urgent need of reserving indoor positioning capabilities in the process of expanding indoor services. The content of the white paper has condensed the consensus of the indoor positioning industry and provided technical guidance for the development of the indoor positioning industry.

Ding Haiyu, director of the Wireless and Terminal Technology Research Institute of China Mobile Research Institute, pointed out at the press conference that with the rapid popularization of mobile communication networks, the demand for indoor positioning is becoming more and more urgent, and the indoor positioning industry is in a stage of vigorous development. However, the industry and market are currently in a fragmented state, and no company in the industry has the ability to build and operate indoor positioning networks on a large scale. Against this background, China Mobile and the industry jointly launched the indoor positioning white paper, aiming to take the high-speed train of 5G network construction and promote the further integration of indoor positioning networks and indoor communication networks . Operators can seize the opportunity of 5G indoor coverage network construction, simultaneously complete the construction of indoor positioning networks, expand the new network capabilities of "5G+location" , and serve thousands of industries.

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Industry partners also expressed their views on the industry demand, market prospects, applicable scenarios of different positioning technologies, and interoperability of devices for indoor positioning. Li Xiaotong, deputy general manager of wireless products at ZTE, believes that indoor positioning is the fourth basic capability of 5G networks , and that 4/5G technology and ubiquitous wireless technologies such as UWB and Bluetooth are tending to converge. Zhe Wenming, head of JD Logistics 2025 Laboratory, introduced the industry's first "5G+Bluetooth 5.1" smart warehousing solution being launched in conjunction with China Mobile, and looks forward to promoting the digitalization and intelligent development of logistics and warehousing based on the "communication and positioning integration" solution. Ren Junyue, vice president of Qingyan Xunke, said that 5G provides the best opportunity for the close integration of spatiotemporal information and location data . From the second half of this year to next year, everyone will witness the explosion of high-precision positioning technologies such as UWB in the consumer market.

Based on the current development status of the indoor positioning industry, the white paper deeply analyzes the indoor positioning needs and challenges of vertical industries, elaborates on the principles and performance evaluation systems of indoor positioning technologies such as 4/5G base stations, Bluetooth, and UWB, and focuses on the integration ideas of indoor positioning networks and indoor communication networks proposed by China Mobile, which gives operators new capabilities for indoor coverage networks.

" Where there is 5G, there is location service! " The field of indoor positioning is a gold mine waiting to be mined, waiting for industry partners to study and expand together. "The road is long and difficult, but if you keep going, you will reach your destination." The industry will take the release of the white paper as an opportunity to jointly promote the vigorous development of the indoor positioning industry and create a new blueprint for the field of indoor positioning.