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technology work for your business www.JRC.co.uk

Adrian Grilli Secretary, Radio Spectrum Group, European Utility Telecom Council

Director, Federation of Communications Services

Managing Director, Joint Radio Company Ltd

5G SUMMIT

What do utilities expect to get from 5G?

29 June 2016

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Joint Radio Company:

Making the spectrum and

technology work for your business www.JRC.co.uk

UK Water & Electricity

Joint Radio Company:

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technology work for your business www.JRC.co.uk

High availability

High reliability

Resilient architecture

Mains power independence

Low latency and guaranteed symmetry

Cyber security

Wide area coverage

Cost effective

2.4kbits/s – 10Mbits/s bandwidth

Capable of supporting distributed control

Longevity of support for technology

Graceful degradation

Air-ground-air operation

Flexible payloads, but primarily uplink centric

UTILITY REQUIREMENTS

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Key elements of resilience

• Power independence

• Flooding?

• Backhaul capability

• Graceful degradation

(no single points of failure)

Resilience issues

“Every extra ‘9’ on availability increases the cost by an order of magnitude” (participant comment at Public Safety Europe Conference, Oxford December 2015)

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Operational

criticality

HIGH

LOW

operational

criticality

Data intensity

LOW

Data intensity

HIGH

SERVICES

synchrophasors

teleprotection

SCADA

voice

security

(CCTV & intrusion)

automation

dynamic asset rating

augmented reality

asset management

metering

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Service Delivery models

Public network Private network Licence exempt

Standardized

Wi-Fi

Zigbee

Bluetooth

Weightless

LoRa

Z-wave

Sigfox

LTE unlicenced

Proprietary

Silver Spring

Connode

etc

Fixed

PSTN

Broadband

Mobile

Licensed carriers

Single network

• Self-provided

by utility

• Provided by

commercial

undertaking

• Joint venture

with telco

Shared network

• Provided & owned by utility

• Shared ownership &

operation

• Shared commercial

New entrants?

Sigfox, etc

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In the end … it’s all about consumers