Background:

    With the advancement of technologies such as drones and navigation, the low-altitude economy is gradually developing. Drones and other pilotless aircraft mainly rely on the airspace below 3,000 meters for low-altitude flight activities, which require a continuous, stable, and reliable network to transmit flight control, image, and video information. Traditional point-to-point communications like WiFi are unable to meet the wide-area, beyond-line-of-sight transmission needs of drones. Wide-area networked communication is the subsequent development direction of low-altitude communication technology. The existing ground-cellular network has insufficient aerial coverage, so it needs to construct the low-altitude network. There are key challenges in deployment of wide-area continuous networking, air-ground collaborative coverage, and the high reliability requirements for flight control.

Tasks:

    1.Low-altitude communication high-reliable assurance technology and products: develop key technologies and products for low-altitude network interference control, mobility management, high-reliable service assurance, and drone safety management.

    2.Demonstration of low-altitude applications: create application demonstrations in scenarios such as logistics distribution and emergency support to promote the maturity of low-altitude communication technology and industry.

    3.Exploration of business models: research on low-altitude service systems that match customer’s differentiated needs, to form new business models for low-altitude intelligent networking.

Expected Outcomes:

    Technical solutions and products, application demonstrations, business models.

Deadline:

    By December 2025

Potential Respondents:

    Network equipment suppliers,Chip manufacturers

About GTI

    GTI is an international cooperation platform initiated and established by China Mobile, Softbank, Vodafone and other operators in 2011. It currently has 146 operator members and 258 industry partners. In 2023, the new stage of GTI 3.0 was officially launched, and it is committed to continuously deepening the global cooperation of 5G-A+AI and achieving win-win commercial success. For more information, please visit http://gtigroup.org/

About the GTI 5G-A x AI Open Development Program

    In Feb 2024 at MWC Barcelona, GTI launched the 5G-A×AI Development Program to promote the integrated innovation of 5G and AI in technology, business, ecology, and commerce, and two-way empowerment. Therefore, 5G is smarter and AI is more ubiquitous, which will support the goals of GTI 3.0. First, Build Open Labs to provide basic environment, equipment facilities, industry application scenarios and other resources for 5G-AxAI integration innovation, and carry out the R&D, testing and demonstration of new technologies and solutions. Second, Build an Open Collaborative Innovation Community, with an online platform for “Communication and Sharing” and “Supply and Demand Matching”, and jointly carry out cutting-edge exploration, technical research, testing and iterative optimization. Third, Explore Innovative 5G-AxAI Integration Use Cases, and condense themreplicable business model templates, so as to provide references for value creation and monetization.