LG Uplus Receives Minister of Science and ICT Award for 'U+5G Smart Port' 5G MEC

[Asia Economy Reporter Eunmo Koo] LG Uplus announced on the 1st that its ‘U+5G Smart Port’ received the Minister’s Commendation at the ‘MEC-based 5G+ Performance Sharing Conference’ hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Information Society Agency (NIA).

Since the world’s first commercialization of 5G in 2019, LG Uplus has developed the U+5G Smart Port solution, which ensures both safety and productivity based on 5G and MEC, through the ‘5G Convergence Service Discovery and Public Leading Application’ project led by NIA. In particular, various port automation solutions including 5G remote-controlled cranes have been successfully applied to domestic ports such as Busan Port’s Sinsundae Pier and Yeosu Gwangyang Port’s West Container Terminal, leading to this award.

The U+5G Smart Port solution consists of yard crane remote control and logistics warehouse automation support that improve the working environment at ports using 5G. The 5G remote-controlled crane significantly improves the port work environment. Until now, operators had to control cranes for long hours while looking down from 25 meters above to move containers. One operator could control only one crane, and due to limited visibility from the operator’s cabin, containers could only be stacked up to three tiers. However, with 5G crane remote control, operators can control cranes from a safe office away from the worksite, improving the work environment and allowing pre-arrangement of containers. Productivity also increases by more than 40%, including stacking containers four tiers or higher.

Additionally, the project includes a crane predictive maintenance solution that analyzes container vibrations to predict failures in advance, and a solution to prevent collisions between logistics equipment such as reach stackers and yard tractors operating at ports. LG Uplus is also conducting an automated logistics project applying three-direction unmanned forklifts and Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) at the BIIDC logistics warehouse in the Busan New Port hinterland complex.

This event was organized to share excellent domestic and international cases of utilizing MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing), an essential infrastructure for 5G B2B services, in industrial sites, and to promote the private sector expansion of 5G MEC-based ICT convergence services.

Jae-yong Seo, Executive Director of LG Uplus Smart Factory Business Division, said, “We will further develop the U+5G-based port solution that can make domestic port workplaces safer and more productive through this award and strengthen our position as the leading telecommunications operator in the 5G smart infrastructure market.”

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