Airtel deploys private 5G network at BOSCH facility in Bengaluru, claimed to be India’s first

Bharti Airtel has announced successful trial of India’s first 5G Private Network at Bosch Automotive Electronics India Pvt Ltd (RBAI) facility in Bengaluru. Airtel’s on-premise 5G Captive Private Network was built over the trial 5G spectrum allocated by the Department of Telecom (DoT).
Airtel has implemented two Industrial grade use cases for quality improvement and operational efficiency at Bosch’s state of the art manufacturing facility, utilising the trial spectrum. In both the cases, 5G technology such as mobile broadband and ultra reliable low latency communications drove automated operations ensuring faster scale up and reduced downtimes.
The private network set up on trial spectrum at the Bosch facility is claimed to have the capability to manage thousands of connected devices along with delivering multi-GBPS throughput. The Private 5G network is said to provide reliability, enhanced security and huge flexibility, freeing the operations from wire-dependency to enable Bosch in achieving the benefits of automated operations.
In any manufacturing set-up, quality and efficiency are very important tools to measure. With Airtel 5G Captive Private Network, Bosch Manufacturing Execution System was able to significantly reduce the time taken to asses the quality through Automatic Optical Inspection (AOI) of surface mounted devices. The process was made efficient by ensuring faster transfer of data over highly reliable and secure network to an AI/ML server for real-time decision making by Bosch Manufacturing Execution System (MES).
Airtel 5G is claimed to help Bosch shop floor managers and operators identify and resolves issues in real time thus reducing the Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF).