Precision elevated. Opportunities multiplied.
5G Advanced location services revolutionize location-based technology with precise indoor and outdoor tracking, enabling service providers to unlock new monetization opportunities across multiple verticals.
What is 5G Advanced location services?
Enterprises and public-sector organizations face a wide range of challenges in the evolving digital landscape, including accurate detection of emergency incident locations, effective crowd management, optimized logistics routing, livestock tracking, and protection against spoofing, to name a few.
5G Advanced location services mark a significant breakthrough in location-based technology, providing unprecedented accuracy and efficiency through 5G networks. By integrating positioning directly into the 5G Standalone (5G SA) architecture, these services enable seamless indoor and outdoor localization with exceptional precision, while reducing power consumption and device dependencies.
Why is it needed?
GNSS-based positioning is widely used and usually provides adequate accuracy outdoors, but it performs poorly indoors or in areas with limited satellite visibility. Indoor positioning relies on technologies such as Ultra-Wide Band, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, vision and LiDAR, but many of these require extra infrastructure, increasing deployment and maintenance costs.
With precise location tracking enabled by 5G SA networks, service providers can deliver real-time insights and address challenges such as:
- Fragmented and inefficient solutions that rely on separate infrastructure and dedicated devices, increasing OPEX
- The lack of seamless indoor–outdoor positioning
- Enterprise needs during digital transformation for integrated solutions that combine both connectivity and localization
What does it mean for service providers?
Key features and capabilities
5G Advanced location services represent a suite of capabilities integrated directly into 5G Standalone (SA) networks. These services provide seamless, precise and scalable end-to-end (e2e) positioning and localization across multiple environments, including indoor, outdoor, and macro.
Key features include:
- High-accuracy sub-10 cm outdoor positioning powered by Real-Time Kinematics (RTK)
- Advanced macro positioning leveraging 5G network enhancements with device independency
- Indoor positioning with high accuracy delivering up to sub-1 m precision using Ericsson’s Radio Dot System
- Passive 5G positioning enabling large-scale geofencing and SIM density
- A network location API suite for fast and simple access to location insights
From tech to impact
Monetizing location: Network APIs and 5G SA enabled Advanced location services for CSPs
Watch the video with Per-Gunnar Andersson, Strategic Product Manager, explaining how combining 5G Advanced location‑services accuracy and network APIs helps service providers monetize new use cases.
High-potential verticals
5G SA as a core network capability unlocks new monetization opportunities through precise location services, enabling service providers to expand beyond traditional mobile offerings and enter new vertical markets.
