Huawei
Huawei, China Mobile completes world’s first trial of beam tracking unit

Huawei has upgraded traditional base station antennas into smart beam tracking unit. The company has performed the world’s first trial deployment of the intelligent tracking unit in Shenzhen. The test was performed jointly with China Mobile.
Smart tracking unit is a modified avatar of old base station antennas. It is a significant revolution in the wireless base station industry. The new tech will contribute to the comprehensive development of the network into a self-intelligent network.
Over time, every tech product requires upgrades and base station antennas are no exception in this theory. The traditional base stations have ‘dumb’ device attributes that result in many challenges and interrupt self-intelligent networks. For instance:
- topological bond of multi-frequency antennas becomes complex and difficult to verify
- impossible to effectively gain base station network optimization prompts
Since the topological bond doesn’t match accurately, it can’t provide precise data input for network optimizations. The dynamic adjustment capability has become poor and can’t meet various requirements.
Huawei and China Mobile now developed the smart Beam Tracking Unit to resolve these problems. The technology mainly focuses on the three core capabilities:
- Real-time visualizations of topological relationships with zero errors.
- Real-time sensing of engineering parameter information with zero error.
- Multi-dimensional beams can be adjusted in real-time with zero waiting.
These properties ensure 100% accuracy between logical cells mapped to the internal antenna array, obtain results within minutes, and achieve short-term (beams follow people, networks follow business) as well as long-term (high-quality networks anytime, anywhere) goals.
Hence, the company can upgrade the traditional base stations to E2E smart tracking systems. The President of Huawei’s Antenna Business Unit – Sun Youwei says:
“The evolution of traditional base station antennas to intelligent tracking units is like the revolutionary upgrade from mechanical gasoline vehicles to self-driving electric vehicles. It is a comprehensive innovation in design concepts, product architecture, and software and hardware.”

Huawei, China Mobile completes world’s first trial of beam tracking unit (Image Credits: Huawei)