S Korean telcos to unlock potential of tech

One of many world’s largest tech occasions, Cellular World Congress (MWC), is returning to Barcelona, and South Korea’s telecommunications companies this week are poised to showcase their future applied sciences for the subsequent decade to come back.

Extending their community and linked intelligence expertise with respective industrial companions, SK Telecom is ready to boast underlying expertise to allow flying taxis, whereas KT brings disinfection robots and LG Uplus presents Korean media contents that run on prolonged actuality.

All three telecom carriers will likely be organising the respective exhibitions at MWC 2022 venue Fira Gran By way of, earlier than some 60,000 on-site members from round 2,000 totally different firms based mostly in 183 nations.

SK Telecom, which has over 30 million subscribers in Korea, will arrange a 792sqm exhibition sales space situated on the centre of Corridor 3.

The corporate stated guests at its exhibition are anticipated to get a glimpse of how its linked intelligence expertise might energy flying automobiles with the city air mobility idea displayed there.

Furthermore, its options for augmented actuality automotive showroom and for digital actuality sport boosting will likely be launched because the use case of multi-access edge computing on the 5G community. SK Telecom may also current Nugu Multiagent, the world’s first sensible speaker that communicates each in English and Korean.

Additionally, for the primary time in Europe, guests may also be given entry to Sapeon, a low-power chip with synthetic intelligence (AI) answer collectively by SK Telecom, its reminiscence chip affiliate SK hynix and funding arm SK Sq., in addition to SK Telecom’s metaverse platform ifland accessible in head-mounted show and in international languages.

In the meantime, KT’s exhibition will likely be situated in Corridor 4, house to MWC’s latest function GSMA Trade Metropolis, a particular exhibit by the host of MWC.

KT, which has 22 million native subscribers, is the only real Korean firm that employs a GSMA board member, KT CEO Ku Hyeon-mo.

KT is ready to have its autonomous virus-killing robotic make a public look for the primary time. KT stated the robotic can run for twenty-four hours, and is able to sterilising airborne micro organism and viruses utilizing air plasma, and of disinfecting flooring with lamps that emit ultraviolet-C lights – identified to have the shortest wavelength however be strongest for ultraviolet purification.

Builders of the sensible robotic is in the midst of mounting AI expertise to detect air high quality real-time, the corporate added.

This can come together with various AI options by KT. Its so-called AI Contact Centre options an automatic customer support that interprets and responds to buyer inquiry by means of an energetic communication, in keeping with the corporate. The automated service was launched in Korea final 12 months.

KT’s AI use circumstances may also vary from highway site visitors evaluation for real-time site visitors move optimisation, video evaluation by way of closed-circuit cameras for sooner emergency response, choreography evaluation and automatic administration of 5G community high quality, the corporate added.

In Corridor 2, LG Uplus will showcase its 5G service at its exhibition house. Guests there could have a style of U+Dive, an app launched final 12 months in Korea that gives as much as some 3,000 media contents, with a few of them offering an prolonged actuality expertise.

LG Uplus added that it expects to barter with over 20 counterparts primarily in Europe and the Center East on the MWC venue to promote 5G providers and contents. The corporate has to date achieved $23 million in gross sales of 5G-related items.

The South Korean telcos’ position isn’t essentially restricted to showcasing their very own futuristic expertise, however to help their companions with abroad market entry.

SK Telecom stated it might set up a separate sales space in Corridor 6 with 11 homegrown start-ups beneath the theme of sustainability. Additionally, KT’s journey to Barcelona will likely be accompanied by its companions, equivalent to metaverse platform supplier Coarsoft and golf swing evaluation service supplier Idealink.

THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK