PAUL BERRIMANGroup CTO - PCCW & HKT

November 2019

Connecting a Smart City Future

in Hong Kong with 5G

2

Agenda

Building Hong Kong a 5G Smart City

Building Hong Kong a 5G Smart City

** World O Meters : HK Urban population index: - https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/china-hong-kong-sar-population/

** Smart Transportation Alliance : Worldwide Urban population index - http://smart-transportation.org/smart-mobility/

Apart from the increasing of urban population, there are other drivers for Smart Mobility:

• The changing user traveling habits• The rise of collaboration in mobility• The demand for increasing user convenience, and• The evolving customer expectations towards transportation.• Road safety improvement and traffic accident reduction.

Smart Mobility and why it is Important?

53% of the population lives in urban areas in the world and this number

is expected to reach 67% by 2050**. What about in HK?

HK’s Urban population - 100% since 2015

SMART CITY - Infrastructure to enable Smart Mobility

V2X LTE-M FibreBroadband

ConnectivityTechnologies

Open Platform & Initiatives

Smart City / Smart Mobility Initiatives

Street Furniture

Smart Mobility

Lot of Initiatives

Especially for

Congestion

Management

• Connected Vehicles

• Autonomous Vehicles

• Car Pool

• Smart Parking

• Smart Traffic Devices

• Smart Airport

and more…

Reservation Navigation Payment

Smart Parking(Off-Street)

• Better customer experience & loyalty

• Maximize the revenue on parking

• Value-added to the mobile app

Traffic Congestion • Air | Noise PollutionFULLFULL

Smart Mobility

Mira Place e-Parking

01010

• Slot vacancy

• Remote Top-up

• e-Paper display for future expansion

• Multiple Payment methods

Smart Parking Meter (12,000+ units)

Central Control Platform

Advanced functions for Motorists

7x24 hotline & Operation Center

• Vehicle detection to avoid abuse

• Progressive charging

• Remote control for availability

• Notification to HKPF for overdue

Advanced functions for

Government

P

and more…

Smart Mobility

Smart Parking Meter(On-Street)

Transport Department - Parking Meter

10

Intelligent Transport System – Cellular V2X

Vehicle‐to‐Vehicle (V2V) Vehicle‐to‐Pedestrian (V2P)Vehicle‐to‐Everything (V2X)

This is strictly Confidential Information 

Collision Avoidance Use Cases ….. Governments and Society benefits

11

Save Two Hospitals for Hong Kong ?

12

5G Challenges and Solutions for a Smart City

13

14

Co‐existence of TDD NetworksWhen TDD systems operate in adjacent spectrum blocks and in the same geographic areas, cross‐cell interference can significantly degrade network performance. Therefore, synchronization of TDD systems is of paramount importance and 5G will impose additional challenges.

This must include Cross Border Operation

Radio Network Densification……and don’t forget the Fibre!

4G

4G

4G

4G

4G4G

4G

4G

4G

16

Small Cells on Lamp Posts

HKT Joint Box

HKT Joint Box

1. Distance between two lamp posts is approx 30 – 60 meters; typical distance is 50 meters or less.

2. Each Small Cell covers up to 150 – 180m in one direction.3. Only need installation on every sixth (6) lamp post to achieve a 

continuous coverage.

Approx 150‐180m between 6 lamp posts

There are around 226,200 lamps in the HK Public Lighting System 

17

Phase 1 : 50 Posts ‐ Kung Tong & Kai Tak New Development Area (NDA)

Phase 2 : 350 Posts ‐ Central / Admiralty, Causeway / Wanchai, TST

Smart Lamppost Pilot Districts

18

HK Mobile Traffic Analysis ‐ Indoor vs Outdoor Mobile Traffic Distribution Type of Mobile Cell Site

Indoor Traffic 81%

Outdoor Traffic 19%

Indoor sites 28%

Outdoor sites 72%

Majority (over 80%) of mobile traffic is generated at Indoor locations.

The indoor cell sites cover around 5% of buildings in Hong Kong and the rest are served by outdoor sites.

POI

MNO A

MNO C MNO B

HKT

HKTDCU DCU

MNO A

MNO C MNO B

HKT

Distributed Antenna System (DAS) LampSite 2.0  (Single Operator)

LampSite 3.0  (Multi‐Operator Sharing Scenario)

Coaxial Cable(analog signals)

Optical Fiber / Ethernet Cable

(digital signals)

Indoor antenna LampSite

2.0LampSite

3.0RHUBRHUB

Optical Fiber / Ethernet Cable

(digital signals)

19

Integrated Radio System (IRS) – 5G‐ready LampSite 3.0 for Multi‐Operator Sharing

20

First Optical Shared Indoor System in Hong Kong

MNO 1 Analog RRU

MNO 2 Fiber input

MNO 3 Fiber input

Multi‐Operator Design

1

2

3

RRU

DCU

RHUB

MNO 1 MNO 2 MNO 3

Shatin – Central Link

Solution deployed at New Shatin‐ Central Link support multi‐operators – With HKT as Project Lead

Support all  scenarios of neutral host service to multiple operators 

Common radio heads improve operation efficiency and infrastructure cost

21

Strategy ‐ start early from 2017 to upgrade the infrastructure to ‘5G Ready’ Simple to upgrade for 5G NR by replacing the radio heads

SHOPPING MALLSSTADIUMS

MUSEUMS

CONTROL POINTS

3% indoor completed

Indoor Locations with 5G Ready Infrastructure

Real Latency and Security Challenges

3GBVideo Within

1km2

10cm 100km/h

100km/h …

23

Network Operations

Massive IoT Critical Communications

Enhanced Mobile Broadband V2X

5G: A Key Enabler for V2X

• V2X covers vehicle to vehicle; vehicle to infrastructure; vehicle to pedestrian; vehicle to network

• It combines elements of critical communications and enhanced mobile broadband including Geo-Location

• Security with Ultra-Low Latency is crucial

• Threats of Vehicle Tracking, Hacking, Jacking & Terrorist Attacking

• Opportunities for Mobile Edge (Micro Cloud) Computing

Energy saving measures will gain more traction over the next five years

Spectrum Blocks

100 MHzTo 1 GHz

20 MHz

Low Power Battery Life

1 DayHandset

4 YearsIoT Device

Reliability

Reliable

UltraReliable

Latency for Games/Cars

50 ms

2 ms

Base Stations

1X

10X

Think 5G SmartCity

Number of Devices

1X

10-100X

Not 5G Smartphones

5G

4G

5G

ARPU100

1-2 ?

4G

25

The 5G Operators Dilemma or The Change in Business Case Variables from 4G to 5G

Illustrative Only

Move from Consumer Smartphones to Commercial IoT Applications and Benefits

Source: Orange, European Commission Studies

Today 2025 Global IoT revenue projections

Source: GSMA Intelligence

$11bn

$51bn

$12bn $299bn

$25bn

$754bn

Connectivity Additional Industry Specific Solution Services Devices

1X Revenues

4X – 6X Revenues

8X - 10XRevenues

ConnectivityProvisioning

ConnectivitySupport

Systems Integration

Data Analytics

Network Analytics

ConsultancySupport

Data Management

ApplicationSupport

Connectivity is a fundamental foundation of the IoT Solutionopportunity but a small part of

the revenue

Industry specific solution based offers, delivering the applicationand services around it makes way for a greater revenue opportunity

Integrating the connectivity costs profitably. Including amortised Device Costs adds to the opportunity

Source: DT/Gartner-Machina

27

Industry Specific Solution providers can move IoTUp the Value Chain

Thank You 

Paul BerrimanGroup CTO

PCCW & HKT