Bharti Airtel, India’s premier communications solutions provider, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) said they have successfully tested innovative use cases from TCS’ neural manufacturing solutions suite on Airtel’s ultra-fast and low latency 5G network.

These solutions help manufacturers build smart, cognitive factories which mimic resilient and adaptive behaviors as well as enable remote robotic operations in potentially hazardous environments like mining, chemical plants, and oil and gas fields to safeguard human capital.

They leverage the ultra-reliable low latency communication, enhanced bandwidth, and high device density characteristics of 5G networks, as well as the combinatorial power of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence/machine learning, computer vision, industrial robotics and augmented reality/virtual reality to enable autonomous actions, Airtel said in a statement.

TCS successfully tested two use cases on Airtel’s 5G testbed – remote robotics operations and vision-based quality inspection, demonstrating how TCS’ neural manufacturing solutions and 5G technology can transform industrial operations and significantly boost quality, productivity and safety. The demonstration was given at Airtel’s 5G Lab in Manesar (Gurugram), it said.

Airtel has been allocated a 5G trial spectrum by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for technology validation. Airtel has rolled out the ‘5GforBusiness’ initiative and is partnering with leading technology companies to demonstrate a wide range of enterprise-grade use cases using high speed and low latency networks.