HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, March 29: L&T Smart World & Communication (SWC) and Vodafone Idea Limited (Vi) have come together to establish a use case for a Private LTE enterprise network in India. Both companies will carry out an accelerated Proof of Concept (PoC) at group business L&T Heavy Engineering’s ‘A M Naik Heavy Engineering Complex’, Hazira (Surat).
Additionally, L&T SWC and Vi have also partnered to trial 5G use cases in the areas of public safety, smart, and connected health, as part of the ongoing 5G trials on Govt. the allocated 5G spectrum. Both the companies have collaborated to test and validate 5G use cases built on IoT, Video AI technologies leveraging L&T’s Smart City platform.
“We believe private enterprise networks are here to stay, proliferate and help transform businesses on the Industry 4.0 growth path. We are excited about this technology and the promise it holds, and along with our partners Vodafone Idea, are betting big in digitising Indian enterprises,” said JD Patil, whole time director & senior executive vice-president, Defence & Smart Technologies, Larsen & Toubro.
“As a market leader in enterprise solutions, Vi Business remains focussed on empowering businesses to grow and reinvent in this dynamic digital ecosystem. We are excited to partner with L&T Smart World & Communication to build a complete solution for Private LTE with cutting-edge applications on future-ready 5G network infrastructure, based on technology expertise from Nokia. This collaboration will demonstrate our strength and capabilities to deliver solutions for the enterprises of tomorrow driving faster adoption of industry 4.0 in India. We are confident that this pilot will revolutionise and transform L&T’s A M Naik Heavy Engineering Complex manufacturing facility, unlocking new potential for future scalability,” added Arvind Nevatia, chief enterprise business officer, Vodafone Idea Limited.
L&T SWC, having varied experience in seamless IT/OT integration and world-class technology solutions, will design, implement, test, and validate the network as well as the satisfactory deployment of the use cases over it.
“We are conducting extensive POC for testing private LTE networks for industrial applications at our L&T Heavy Engineering works at ‘AM Naik Heavy Engineering Complex’. We are confident that LTE will help us in achieving the goals of improved connectivity/coverage and also the ability to move towards greater automation using IOT in various Industry 4.0 applications,” informed Anil V Parab, senior vice-president, head – Heavy Engineering and member of the Executive Committee.
