20 19 is called the first year of 5G commercialization, and logistics is one of the industries most affected by it.
On April 28th, the "5G+ Action Joint Meeting" hosted by Zhejiang Provincial Government announced that the first 5G Express Distribution Center in China will soon land in Xiaoshan, Hangzhou. This project is jointly built by Cainiao, China Unicom and YTO Express, which will greatly improve the efficiency and stability of automatic parcel sorting.
"5G is not only a change in bandwidth and network speed, but also an opportunity for the Internet world to be reactivated. 5G technology will bring a qualitative leap to logistics express delivery. " Lin Wan, president of the rookie, said in an interview with Xinhuanet.
Last year, Cainiao and YTO Express jointly established a super robot distribution center in Xiaoshan. This is a small robot distribution center with the fastest average speed and the highest distribution efficiency in the industry. During the peak period, 350 robots work day and night in a 2,000-square-meter field, and can sort more than 500,000 packages every day. The robot's mileage in three days is enough to circle the earth.
The rookie's algorithm ability makes every robot have a strong foresight. Through artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technology, multiple robots can work intensively at the same time, plan the optimal handling route in advance, optimize resource allocation, avoid collisions and complete handling tasks efficiently.
Li Jianjun, a senior technical expert of Cainiao Network, said that compared with similar distribution equipment in the industry, the average speed and sorting efficiency of this distribution center robot jointly built by Cainiao and Tong Yuan exceeded the industry by 25%.
It is reported that at present, the rookie network has several highly intelligent robot storage and distribution centers, and nearly 700 robots work at the same time in a single warehouse.
Then, with the support of 5G, how will the robot distribution center be upgraded?
According to the person in charge of the rookie network, due to the limited 4G rate, WiFi network scheduling robots are usually used in the industry. However, the coverage of Wi-Fi network is small, which requires frequent network switching, and there are problems such as network instability and network delay, which affect the working efficiency of the robot.
"Wi-Fi transmission is often delayed. For example, if the system sends an instruction to go straight, but the robot cannot receive it immediately, the robot will slow down in the process. " The person in charge of the rookie network said that 5 G has the characteristics of high transmission rate, large network capacity, short delay, fiber-like access rate and connection of hundreds of billions of devices. These problems will be solved in the 5G era, so the efficiency of robots will be higher and faster, and the efficiency of logistics operation has been greatly improved, making the operation of the entire warehousing and distribution center more stable and efficient.
Similarly, the 5G network will also give more imagination to unmanned vehicles at the end of logistics.
The impact of 5G on the driverless field has long been verified. Prior to this, the world's first automatic driving and remote driving based on 3GPP 5G technology: the driver remotely controls the vehicle more than 30 kilometers away, and the camera installed on the vehicle transmits multiple HD videos to the remote bridge in real time through the 5G network; The driver's control signal to the vehicle is instantly transmitted to the unmanned vehicle dozens of kilometers away through the 5G network.
Not only that, the person in charge of the rookie network said that the previous unmanned driving mainly relied on installing sensors on unmanned vehicles to perceive road conditions and then make judgments. However, in the 5G era, unmanned vehicles and roads can truly achieve vehicle-road coordination, and self-driving vehicles interact with roads and pedestrians. By installing sensors on the road, unmanned vehicles can directly receive roadside information when they reach the relevant sections, so as to make a series of decisions such as turning or going straight, and form a perfect vehicle-road cooperative solution. This may accelerate the large-scale application of logistics unmanned vehicles.
In addition to unmanned distribution and intelligent warehousing, at the 20 19 global logistics technology conference, Xiang Feng, vice president of YTO Express and director of the National Engineering Laboratory, also listed new scenarios for the application of 5G in the logistics field. For example, in a cold chain supply logistics system, nodes can be connected to a remote cloud logistics architecture through 5G to realize temperature control and item tracking; In the logistics supply chain, many logistics service personnel need to use terminal equipment, and 5G can realize real-time analysis through big data centers and cloud computing services.
5G is gradually taking advantage of its high-speed bandwidth, massive access and low latency to create more efficient logistics scenarios.
Editor Chen Chen