New Delhi: Reliance Jio and Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) will sign a strategic partnership for the use of telco. 5th Power to standalone (SA) network Health care Techniques for different use cases.
Jio’s ‘True 5G’ service with low latency will facilitate new use cases in the healthcare sector such as robotics-based treatment or surgery, remote ICU, ICU ambulance, community clinics and more.
Even before the 5G rollout began, both Jio and Bharti Airtel were showcasing several use cases, including the use of 5G in ambulances to manage critical care on the move.
For instance, Jio and emergency medical response service provider Medulance in October launched a 5G-enabled ambulance equipped with cameras and smart devices that allow real-time, two-way audio and video communication, high-definition footage transmission, ambulance location. tracking, and real-time streaming of patient health data to a remote doctor over a high-speed mobile network.
Medulance Healthcare co-founder Pranab Bajaj said the company’s goal is to leverage Jio to transform its fleet of over 7,500 ambulances across the country into smart ambulances. 5G network.
Last year, Airtel demonstrated a 5G-connected ambulance with Apollo Hospitals and technology partner, Cisco, for emergency situations.
Jio, which is using 5G SA, is the only telco to have bought 700MHz spectrum in India’s first 5G spectrum sale. The 700MHz spectrum is said to be critical for network slicing and low-latency-dependent applications. In contrast, Airtel is deploying its 5G network based on non-standalone (NSA) architecture.
Both the telecom companies aim to cover the entire country with 5G by 2023-24. However, Vodafone Idea has not announced any plans for the same yet.
