On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 8:36 AM, Tom Worthington <[email protected] > wrote:
> This "smart city" ... sensors monitoring everything from air quality >> to pedestrian traffic, even the flushing of toilets. ... >> > > This doesn't add up to enough data to need 5G or even 4G. Sydney's Green > Square, which is projected to have a future population density exceeding > Hong Kong, 3G data rates would do. > Not everything is about bandwidth. 4G has limits around the number of simultaneous clients a cell can support, even when idle. The limits will 5G will be significantly higher. 5G is also planned to require far less power usage on the client, again a big benefit for IoT use cases. Scott _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
