[LINK] Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G

[Tom Worthington]

ThOn 5/06/2018 12:19 PM, David 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.

For each toilet you would need a few bytes of data transmitted every few 
hours.

For air quality you would need a few bytes of data every few minutes for 
each city block.

For pedestrian traffic you would need a count for each footpath for each 
road on each block every few minutes.


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