China Mobile & ZTE Utilize Digital Twin to Enhance Lineside 5G

ZTE, along with China Mobile's Yunnan Branch, have created an accurate 3D model of the lineside infrastructure along the KunchuDali railway, and used it to make improvements to network performance.
 
The route traverses some challenging terrain, including mountain ranges and dense vegetation, the result being that bridges and tunnels account for 64% of its length. Part of the China-Myanmar International Railway and the Trans-Asia Railway west line, it connects several important cities in Yunnan Province. It's popular with tourists, and it carries around 61,000 passengers per day.
 
ZTE explained that the digital twin encompasses virtual representations not just of mobile sites but of signals too.
 
Mapping the sites was a challenge due to the topography, so ZTE and China Mobile used drones to reach the places engineers can't – conducting surveys, using AI to automatically identify antennas, and collecting the 3D data needed for the site aspect of the digital twin.


​Source: Telecoms