China News Service, April 27 (Zheng Yingying and Zhang Hengwei) In Pudong, Shanghai, with the help of 5G networks, unattended fully automated "cell banking" is becoming possible.
On the 27th, the reporter visited the “Primary Energy Cell Bank” located in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang Science City. In the 5G cell bank, cells are stored in a low-temperature facility at minus 196 degrees Celsius “steadily”. Samples can still be taken in emergencies. Was urgently transferred.
The stored samples are placed in a "honeycomb single room", liquid nitrogen is automatically filled, and the tube is automatically and accurately positioned under vacuum negative pressure.
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According to reports, in order to achieve fully automatic unattended, 5G has achieved full coverage in the building. After the robot receives instructions, every action is accurate, from passing window samples to extracting frozen cells from the honeycomb independent unit storage box. .
Lu Ying, the relevant person in charge of Shanghai Telecom Pudong Bureau, introduced that indoor 5G coverage of cell banks is difficult. Telecom has customized indoor coverage solutions for the cell bank according to the special needs of the cell bank. There are about 20 or 30 5G indoor small stations in the entire cell bank. , Which can basically meet the needs of the original energy cell bank.
The cell bank is equipped with self-developed automated storage equipment and AGV robots, and is operated and maintained through China Telecom's 5G edge computing automatic dispatch system.
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Original Energy Cell Technology Group was established in July 2014. Through the two routes of cell biological cryogenic equipment and cell medicine technology, it aims to create a "cell bank" with a sophisticated full-process automation system.
Wei Jia, vice president and marketing director of Original Energy Cell Technology Group Co., Ltd., introduced that the storage requirements of cells are particularly high, and it is necessary to maintain a constant low temperature. "How to monitor and trace, how to record a large amount of information, and what to do if there is an abnormal situation. The original storage method is manual. If it is not controlled as expected, the sample is at risk of being scrapped."
Relying on the 5G SA network architecture, the cell bank realizes the interconnection and intercommunication of different automation equipment and various robots through 5G-IoT.
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Wei Jia introduced that compared with ordinary manual storage, automated storage has the advantages of avoiding repeated freezing and thawing, ensuring cell viability, and ensuring high efficiency of retrieval and extraction through information management.
She said that Yuanneng wanted to be a cell bank network in the future, and control real-time information at each point. "5G can connect each point and transmit the real-time operation of each device to the backend, empowering this network. "
Original Energy Cell and Shanghai Telecom have joined hands to build the country's first unattended and fully automated 5G cell demonstration library.
The original energy cell bank adopts the fully automatic cell storage equipment independently developed by the original energy, and is built with supporting intelligent products. Relying on the leading 5G SA network architecture, it realizes the interconnection and mutual cooperation of different automation equipment and various robots through 5G-IoT.
The remote operation and maintenance platform realizes the automatic equipment management of the warehouses in different places and realizes the remote operation and maintenance of the warehouses in different places.
At the same time, artificial intelligence, VR/AR, digital twin, edge computing and other technologies are used to perceive and predict equipment failure information in advance to ensure the highly reliable operation of equipment.
Through the use of these technologies to ensure the entire process of deep-low temperature cold chain, unattended, and intelligent operation of cell samples, effectively improving the quality and safety of the samples.
The reporter visited the country's first tens of millions of deep cryogenic sample storage cell banks.
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With the development of biomedical technology, the storage of healthy cells for the treatment of diseases is becoming a development trend, and with the development of medical technology and 5G network technology, the way of cell storage and "preservation" is more open.
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