From turning on and off the lights in the house to paying for transportation services, electronic devices have become essential in the daily lives of all users; and, despite the fact that in this region of the world technology has not covered all sectors of people, the possibility of using these technologies is becoming more common.
The Latin American and Caribbean area still has to close a connectivity gap in terms of the telecommunications network. The new generation of technologies, such as 5G, together with a greater penetration of smartphones and devices, may mean greater possibilities to close this connectivity gap, as several experts said at the Mobile World Congress, which took place in Barcelona (Spain) some weeks.
“The good news is that it will be much easier to enhance this connectivity with 5G, which will provide 100 Mbps BW without wiring or complicated installations for the end user,” said Guillermo Solomon, director of Digital Transformation of Huawei Latin America and the Caribbean, at a table. round with journalists from the region.
Solomon said there is work to be done in terms of broadband deployment and adoption in the region, as some 21% of workers in Latin America and the Caribbean are able to work from home during the pandemic, while in Europe and the United States this figure is more than 40%.
Speaking at the roundtable, Paul Scanlan, Director of Digital Transformation at Huawei, said that the trend of digital transformation is obviously moving faster and faster.
Connectivity will play a really important role in the way people live and businesses operate as the world emerges from the pandemic and social and economic activities begin to recover.
And it is that all these connectivity services are essential for the ecosystems of electronic devices to work together. For example, an autonomous vehicle cannot work if it is not connected to the internet; smart public lighting, either. At home, without a network connection, a smart TV or security cameras are of little use.
Also within the framework of the Mobile World Congress, another Chinese brand, Xiaomi, presented its smart home with an almost incalculable variety of interconnected devices to make life easier for users.
Months ago, this same brand presented the MIUI Home, a home automation ecosystem like those of Apple or Google. Xiaomi with this wants to intertwine all its devices so that they work more fluidly.
Its Redmi 8, Redmi Pro 8 and Xiaoai Pro 8 smart screens can serve as control centers for the entire product catalog that the brand has. The new MIUI Home consists of a part of hardware in which many of Xiaomi’s products are integrated, such as televisions, tabletsmobiles, smart screens and speakers, home automation solutions, etc.
This system is based on Android, but it proposes its own solution and an ecosystem that competes with those of Google and Apple, and it also does so with interesting innovations in the field of hardware and in the software.
At Mobile World Congress, vendors such as Huawei and carriers demonstrated application scenarios in various industries, showing a futuristic world where high-speed telecommunication networks with low latency enable various intelligent operations in different industries, such as mining, where human beings will be freed from dangerous work.
Industry executives said it is estimated that around 50% of global economic output by 2025 will be digitized in one form or another. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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