Despite being the most affected country by corona viruses (i.e. COVID-19), China together with its 5G infrastructure demonstrated enormous potentiality in remaining a global manufacturing powerhouse with unrivaled advantages. Chinese network operator China Mobile have collaborated using 5G technology to facilitate remote diagnosis of COVID-19. Remote diagnosis will help the Chinese government to take better control of the disease and reduce fatalities.
Use Case Details:
Attributes | Description | Informational |
Type | New | |
Industry Sector | Telco and carrier networks | |
Business driver | 5G (vRAN, Core) for Tami COVID-19 uses cases. Without Edge Cloud, low latency and real time services cannot be enabled. | |
Business use cases | 5G use cases for Tami COVID-19. | |
Business Cost - Initial Build Cost Target Objective | Edge Cloud should be deployable at Central offices with 7 servers in a single rack at a low cost | |
Business Cost – Target Operational Objective | 1. In-place upgrade of the Edge cloud should be supported without impacting the availability of the edge applications 2. Edge Solution should have role based access controls, Single Pane of Glass control, administrative and User Based GUIs to manage all deployments. 3. The automation should also support zero touch provisioning and management tools to keep operational cost lower | |
Security need | The solution should have granular access control and should support periodic scanning | |
Regulations | The Edge cloud solution should meet all the industry regulations of data privacy, telco standards (NEBS), etc., | |
Other restrictions | Consider the power restrictions of specific location in the design (example - Customer premise) | |
Additional details | The Edge Cloud Solution should be deployable across the globe and should be able to support more than 10,000 locations | Use case submitters can include files (PPT, DOC, etc…) that explain the use case in more detail. |
Use case 1: Remote Center Consultation Platform
China Mobile builds national remote center consultation platform, together with 5G mobile medical robotic vehicle. It achieves multidisciplinary remote consultation, bedside consultation, mobile consultation, so that front-line medical staff can get the help and support of experts at any time. China Mobile's remote center consultation platform includes services from 3,913 medical institutions nationwide, among which 56 are anti-epidemic hospitals. It provides support for more than 30,000 remote consultations. China Mobile has donated 9002 units and intercom terminals, which have been used in more than 1280 hospitals and epidemic prevention units including "Huoshen Shan Hospital" and "Leishen Shan Hospital". National Remote Central Consultation Platform helps Help the People's Liberation Army General Hospital, "Huoshen Shan Hospital", "Leishen Shan Hospital", Taikang Tongji Hospital, and Maternal and Child Optical Valley Hospital to achieve 5G remote consultation and remote B-ultrasound, and full fills National teleconsulting mission for patients with new and severe pneumonia and critically ill patients.
Case Attributes | Description | Informational |
Type | New | |
Blueprint Family - Proposed Name | Tami COVID-19 - remote medical treatment | |
Use Case | VPC, 5G UPF | |
Blueprint proposed Name | Remote Center Consultation Platform | |
Initial POD Cost (capex) | VPC: 1 Rack with 3 servers, each server with 1 SmartNIC UPF: 3 servers, each server with 1 SmartNIC | |
Scale & Type | In the gateway, infrastructure service, and edge cloud | |
Applications | Short Video Applications, UPF | |
Power Restrictions | SmartNIC: 35W | |
Infrastructure orchestration |
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SDN | N/A | |
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Additional Details | Submitter to provide additional use case details |
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Use case 2: Medical Robots Treatment
5G medical service robots provide navigation guidance, logistics and distribution, disinfection and epidemic prevention, intelligent temperature measurement and other services.Case Attributes | Description | Informational |
Type | New | |
Blueprint Family - Proposed Name | Tami COVID-19 - remote medical treatment | |
Use Case | VPC, 5G UPF | |
Blueprint proposed Name | Medical Robots Treatment | |
Initial POD Cost (capex) | VPC: 1 Rack with 3 servers, each server with 1 SmartNIC UPF: 3 servers, each server with 1 SmartNIC | |
Scale & Type | In the gateway, infrastructure service, and edge cloud | |
Applications | Short Video Applications, UPF | |
Power Restrictions | SmartNIC: 35W | |
Infrastructure orchestration |
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SDN | N/A | |
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Additional Details | Submitter to provide additional use case details |
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Use case 3: Hospital Surveillance System
Hospital surveillance system, real-time monitoring of wards, corridors, cross-hospital and other sites, personnel flow control, making the hospital environment much safer.
Case Attributes | Description | Informational |
Type | New | |
Blueprint Family - Proposed Name | Tami COVID-19 - remote medical treatment | |
Use Case | VPC, 5G UPF | |
Blueprint proposed Name | Hospital Surveillance System | |
Initial POD Cost (capex) | VPC: 1 Rack with 3 servers, each server with 1 SmartNIC UPF: 3 servers, each server with 1 SmartNIC | |
Scale & Type | In the gateway, infrastructure service, and edge cloud | |
Applications | Short Video Applications, UPF | |
Power Restrictions | SmartNIC: 35W | |
Infrastructure orchestration |
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SDN | N/A | |
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Additional Details | Submitter to provide additional use case details |
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Use case 4: Emergency Dispatch System
The emergency dispatch system, China Mobile's "talking" assists medical services, providing emergency dispatch, precise positioning of emergency personnel, unified dispatch of security personnel, fast and efficient.
Case Attributes | Description | Informational |
Type | New | |
Blueprint Family - Proposed Name | Tami COVID-19 - remote medical treatment | |
Use Case | VPC, 5G UPF | |
Blueprint proposed Name | Emergency Dispatch System | |
Initial POD Cost (capex) | VPC: 1 Rack with 3 servers, each server with 1 SmartNIC UPF: 3 servers, each server with 1 SmartNIC | |
Scale & Type | In the gateway, infrastructure service, and edge cloud | |
Applications | Short Video Applications, UPF | |
Power Restrictions | SmartNIC: 35W | |
Infrastructure orchestration |
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SDN | N/A | |
Workload Type |
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Additional Details | Submitter to provide additional use case details |
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Use case 5: 5G Ambulance
The 5G connected ambulances carry out remote consultation. It performs remote treatment, immersive guidance, and helps with the battle against COVID-19 virus. This type of 5G connected ambulances have been hyped as the application of superfast connectivity that will bring about the next revolution in healthcare.
Case Attributes | Description | Informational |
Type | New | |
Blueprint Family - Proposed Name | Tami COVID-19 - remote medical treatment | |
Use Case | VPC, 5G UPF | |
Blueprint proposed Name | 5G Ambulance | |
Initial POD Cost (capex) | VPC: 1 Rack with 3 servers, each server with 1 SmartNIC UPF: 3 servers, each server with 1 SmartNIC | |
Scale & Type | In the gateway, infrastructure service, and edge cloud | |
Applications | Short Video Applications, UPF | |
Power Restrictions | SmartNIC: 35W | |
Infrastructure orchestration |
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SDN | N/A | |
Workload Type |
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Additional Details | Submitter to provide additional use case details |
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Committer | Committer Company | Committer Contact Info | Committer Bio | Committer Picture | Self Nominate for PTL (Y/N) |
| Suzy Gu | China Mobile | ||||
| Wenhui Zhang | |||||
Contributor | Contributor Company | Contributor Contact Info | Contributor Bio | Contributor Picture |
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