[lima]

> Personally, the industrial 5G IoT applications are far more interesting.

IoT applications are typically very low-bandwidth. The main issue is cost and power usage.

[TheSoftwareGuy]

That's one of the big use cases of 5G though. Having a huge number of low-bandwidth subscribers

[viraptor]

We've got existing low power, low bandwidth, long range systems. What do you think 5G can improve here?

[icebraining]

How many devices can these systems handle?

[viraptor]

Depends what you want to do, how you want to communicate, do you broadcast / mesh, uni/bi directional, etc. It's a "how long is a piece of string" situation.

From cheap, slow, long range deployments like LoRa (100 devices sending tens of bytes) to satellite broadcast (any number of synchronised devices), and a few things in between.