6G may arrive as sensing infrastructure, not just connectivity
Early work on 6G is shifting the focus away from just faster mobile data and lower latency. Researchers and vendors are exploring how future 6G networks could embed sensing functions directly into radio infrastructure, so the network does more than carry traffic.
Instead of being only a communications layer, 6G could also detect and measure activity in the environment, supporting new types of workloads that depend on awareness of physical space. This would mark a move from networks built mainly for connectivity to networks designed as shared sensing and communication infrastructure.
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