AIOTI WG Standardisation has published the report AI, IoT and Edge Continuum impact and relation on 5G/6G: enabling technologies and challenges R5.
This report highlights several IoT and Edge Computing vertical domain use cases collected by the Alliance for AI, IoT and Edge Continuum Innovation (AIOTI) and determines the specific requirements they impose on the underlying 5G/6G network infrastructure. These use cases and requirements can be used by Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), such as 3GPP, ITU-T, ISO, and IEEE as requirements for automation in vertical domains focusing on critical communications.
In addition to these use cases also emerging topics in the area of 5G/6G technology are as well introduced.
The Release 2.0 of this report included 6 additional use cases in the areas of: (1) use of drones, (2) 5G cloud-RAN, (3) Health-Critical Remote Operations, (4) preliminary 6G use cases.
The Release 3.0 of this report included 6 additional use cases in the area of Edge-Cloud Orchestration in the Section 2.13.
The Release 4.0 of this report included 14 additional use cases in the areas of: (1) Digital Twin, (2) autonomous urban transportation, (3) critical Infrastructure support applications (smart health and connected vehicles), (4) preliminary 6G use cases, (5) use of drones, (6) smart manufacturing and automation, (7) service trust and liability management, (8) Edge-Cloud orchestration and (9) smart agriculture.
The Release 5.0 of this report, compared to Release 4.0, introduced the following changes:
- the use cases, developed in projects that are: (1) completed before 2025 and (2) were included in Release 4.0 of the report, are not anymore included in this release (Release 5.0) of the report, but they can be retrieved via Section 2 of AI, IoT and Edge Continuum impact and relation on 5G/6G: enabling technologies and challenges Release 4.0.
- in Section 3, added a subsection on Key AI concepts
- in Section 2, a list of additional 12 use cases are introduced in the areas of (1) Smart Manufacturing and Automation, (2) Preliminary 6G use cases and (3) Edge-Cloud orchestration.