Back in 2019, Huawei and Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company (ZPMC) launched the ‘5G Smart Port White Paper’, in which they described the potential of 5G in ports, noting that the first version of the international standard for 5G should have been completed by March 2020.
Overall, according to the ‘5G Smart Port White Paper’, smart ports require communications systems to support low latency, high bandwidth, and high reliability communication services in order to handle control data and multi-channel video data of port equipment.
5G’s high data rate, massive connectivity, and low latency mean that it can meet the requirements of the future Internet of Everything (IoE) and promote the development of industrial capacities. In terms of high data rate, Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) can reach a peak rate of 10 Gbps with an average throughput of hundreds of Mbps.