Swedish network vendor Ericsson has deployed a private 5G network at a 40,000 square-meter CJ Logistics warehouse in Icheon City, in South Korea. CJ Logistics is looking to scale the initial deployment, at its Ichiri centre, to 400 warehouse facilities in South Korea, plus 40 more sites globally, a press statement suggests. Ericsson said the logistics firm has seen a 20 percent increase in productivity at the Ichiri centre since the first installation.
CJ Logistics, with operations in 36 countries in total, recruited Ericsson to fix Wi-Fi “dead zones and repeated outages”, and from there to position it to “take advantage of next generation use cases and solutions”. The productivity uplift has mostly come from streamlining the warehouse picking process, where items are taken from shelves and prepared for shipping – by “enabling real-time communication between devices and systems”.
