Industrial Connectivity Lab opens
Siemens customers test wireless technologies
Siemens has opened a new test lab for industrial connectivity technologies at its Erlangen site. Embedded in the Siemens Technology Center on the Erlangen campus, the Industrial Connectivity Lab offers 300 square meters of space for testing connectivity solutions: Industrial WLAN, 5G, real-time localization systems (RTLS) and radio frequency identification (RFID).
"The increasing convergence of OT and IT in industrial plants is creating a huge demand for customized communication solutions," says Axel Lorenz, CEO Process Automation at Siemens. "Many users find it difficult to assess the benefits and framework conditions of wireless technologies in their own operations. The Industrial Connectivity Lab offers our customers the great advantage of being able to combine different connectivity technologies and test them with us under industrial conditions." The lab is also used for internal Siemens technology tests and as a training and education environment.
For tests with 5G applications, Siemens has a private 5G license that covers the entire Siemens Technology Center Erlangen. The lab is equipped with a complete private 5G infrastructure from Siemens for this purpose. The test environment is also supplied with industrial WLAN. The RTLS system installed on site can also be used to test various scenarios for localization solutions with high accuracy. In addition, industrial identification solutions via RFID are available to users in the lab. Finally, remote control and remote maintenance scenarios can also be run through on site via a DSL connection.
"In the Industrial Connectivity Lab, Siemens experts advise our customers on all common wireless technologies - and test them under real industrial conditions," says Lorenz. "In this way, our customers not only get the desired performance, but also save time and money before installation in their own company."
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