Samsung combines 5G, AI, drones and cloud in conspiracy ... to ease network maintenance costs
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/06/23/samsung_cloud_ai_drone_5g/
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Today, the company says, a trip to check that antennae configuration atop a cell tower can take hours. And some poor sod has to go up and down a greasy pole to do the job, which puts them in danger.
Samsung would rather send in the drones and this week demonstrated a smartphone-controlled craft that used cameras to photograph antennae. The resulting happy snaps were sent to the cloud where they were analysed using AI to measure the rotation and tilt of the cameras. Those measurements were compared to the desired angles, so that network operators can check that their kit is in the best position to operate optimally.
The process took 15 minutes from takeoff to verification, a rather faster process than is possible with humans climbing ladders.
Seeing as 5G networks require a great many cell sites, Samsung thinks for maintenance-cost-conscious telcos will open their chequebooks with alacrity. The company will therefore productise this conspiracy-launching combo by year’s end. ®
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I for one welcome our new masters
Now the robots are self checking and soon they will become self repairing. From there it's a small step to self building and then we are all doomed. The 5G nutters were right, 5G is going to kill us all, but not with COVID-19 or by melting our braincells. How could they be so wrong and yet so right,.....
"a smartphone-controlled craft"
No way that could go wrong. Nobody will be able to take control of the phone with malware and have some fun, like by flying the drone into the mast.
I do hope that the communications between the phone and the drone are encrypted. They are, right ? Right ?
Oh who am I kidding, the guy who wrote that app hasn't even looked at an encryption framework, let alone implemented it.
productise
If this is an Americanism it should be productize, surely?
But it still means nothing to me.
I am confuserised.
Will the drone be safe?
Perhaps the stunningly stupid people that believe in these conspiracy theories will get anti-drone technology. You know the sort of thing, a microwave blaster that will cause the drone to shutdown (after frying the users spuds first)?
Sounds like a great idea. I want one of these drones.