Taiwanese computer maker Inventec has showcased its planned Taoyuan server factory, which will feature 5G smart factory applications running on a 5G O-RAN architecture, as well as integration across its enterprise supply chain.

At the O-RAN Alliance Taiwan convention hosted at Auray’s Open Test and Integration Centre (OTIC) and Security Lab, Inventec demonstrated the 5G open architecture and its implementation at Taoyuan. The company demonstrated how 5G O-RAN in a smart factory setting can reduce the complexity of deployment and subsequent maintenance costs for upgrades in automated smart factory technologies.

Inventec also presented test data results for its industrial environmental safety “E-Gate”, “AI face recognition”, “fall detection”, “AR smart surveillance” and “MR Human-machine remote collaboration”, running from integration at system level to device level.

In AI computer vision, Inventec has achieved throughput up to 800Mbps uplink and 200Mbps downlink with less than 18ms latency and 0.004% packet loss rate through 5G video transmission for E-Gate, face recognition, and fall detection, achieving the required application stability and over 90% recognition success rate. In a wireless mobile application, it has reached a 99.9% ~ 100% handover success rate in a test area of 80 meter-width when the end device is moving with velocity of  one meter per second. In the tests, Inventec also found that reliable GNSS (GPS) signals contributed significantly to the stability of 5G network quality, and that the brand of the terminal device had a much greater impact on performance stability changes in end-to-end tests than the base station.

According to Evan Chien, Senior Director of the Cloud and Communications Solution at Inventec, our participation in the “E2E service experience for Industry IoT” test at this year’s O-RAN event signifies that Inventec already has system integration capabilities that can implement open 5G private network architectures in real world. “Inventec will continue to optimise the end-to-end solution with the test data obtained from live cases in the test, and share the successful deployment experience to more field partners through construction service, maintenance and technical consultancy.” 

Inventec is actively involved in the 5G private network market. In addition to developing its own brand base station, Inventec is also playing the role of system integrator for the first time, to integrate from information technology (IT), communication technology (CT) to operation technology (OT), with Microsoft, Altran, PTC, Intel, Qualcomm, MediaTek, CYLTEK, NexAIoT, NYCU, O’Prueba, AIMobile, Besta, ioNetworks, PowerArena, Geoforce and other eco-partners in the 5G manufacturing vertical, and promoting complete end-to-end 5G enterprise network solutions for users in the manufacturing industry through testing and validation at its own server manufacturing facility in Taoyuan.

Inventec has completed assembly line level verification in 5G smart factory in the first half of 2022, and will provide 5G end-to-end solutions for manufacturing organisations aiming at digital transformation. In addition to O-RAN end-to-end service experience tests, Inventec plans to conduct more 5G O-RAN application integration testing plans through the 5G open lab deployment in the second half of the year to complete the integrations from lab to field, from a single device to end-to-end application, and continue to work on 5G smart factory solutions.