Aiming to establish a use case of a Private LTE enterprise network in India, L&T Smart World & Communication (SWC) and Vodafone Idea Limited (Vi) have come together. Both companies will carry out an accelerated Proof of Concept (PoC) at group business L&T Heavy Engineering’s ‘A M Naik Heavy Engineering Complex’, Hazira (Surat). L&T SWC and Vi have also partnered to trial 5G Use Cases in the areas of Public Safety, Smart, and Connected Health, as part of the ongoing 5G trials on Govt. the allocated 5G spectrum.
Both the companies have collaborated to test and validate 5G use cases built on IoT, Video AI technologies leveraging L&T’s Smart City platform.
Vi Business, with its deep expertise of providing innovative and reliable telecommunications services to Enterprises, is preparing for a future ready industry through partnerships and trials with major industrial companies. L&T SWC, having varied experience of seamless IT/OT integration and world-class technology solutions, will design, implement, test, and validate the network as well as the satisfactory deployment of the use cases over it. The private LTE PoC will ensure coverage, communication, and customer experience by integrating vast machinery, connected devices, and IoT that are critical to the related high precision manufacturing processes, at the L&T Heavy Engineering manufacturing facility.