5G Advanced location services

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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.

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

Diversified revenue streams across verticals beyond mobile broadband

High growth potential in healthcare, emergency response, logistics, manufacturing, public safety, utilities, automotive, drones, and other location-based use cases that require reliable indoor/outdoor performance.

True end-to-end positioning solution in all environments

Our comprehensive suite delivers true end-to-end precise positioning across indoor and outdoor environments, unlocking new enterprise market opportunities and improving operational efficiency.

Easy access to network-based location insights

Developers can access network-based location insights through powerful location APIs delivered by 5G service providers or aggregators, enabling monetization and the creation of innovative, scalable location-based applications.

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.

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Use cases—explore a multitude of new possibilities

Discover our use case brochure to gain a deeper understanding of the monetization possibilities enabled by 5G Advanced location services. Learn how service providers can create new revenue streams through advanced location-based solutions across multiple verticals.

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Operational learnings from real 5G positioning deployments

An expert-led roundup of real 5G positioning deployments and what they taught us. Read first hand learnings on accuracy, integration, operational trade-offs and business impact to help guide your own rollouts and commercial strategies.

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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

5G Advanced location services: Business and technology overview

Watch the video with Andreas Hansson, Strategic Product Manager, as he illustrates how 5G Advanced location services could bring benefits to enterprises, public sector and consumers.

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.

Ericsson Network Location

Ericsson Network Location is our modern location platform designed to meet the demands of 5G and IoT location-based use cases.

Packet Core Controller

Ericsson Packet Core Controller provides access, session, mobility, and gateway control functions to support emerging 5G use cases.

Macro

Macro RAN provides synchronized wide‑area reference signals, geometry, and connectivity to enable accurate, low‑latency outdoor positioning.

Indoor

Small cells and indoor base stations deliver dense, synchronized reference signals, low‑latency edge anchoring, and interference/hand‑off management to enable high‑precision indoor positioning.

Ericsson 5G Advanced solutions

The Ericsson 5G Advanced Outdoor positioning and 5G Advanced Critical-IoT for dedicated RAN avail the needed RAN functionality for precise outdoor and indoor positioning.

5G positioning: Locating 5G devices anywhere

The positioning market is expanding rapidly, with a projected CAGR of 28% from 2025 to 2033. As a key enabler for logistics, industrial automation, advanced driver-assistance systems, digital airspace services, and digital representations of cities and factory floors, positioning provides increasing value across industries. Our new whitepaper offers an in-depth look at 5G positioning, outlining its technical advantages and presenting a variety of 5G-based indoor and outdoor solutions.

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5G Advanced location services

Precision elevated. Opportunities multiplied.

What is 5G Advanced location services?

Why is it needed?

What does it mean for service providers?

Diversified revenue streams across verticals beyond mobile broadband

True end-to-end positioning solution in all environments

Easy access to network-based location insights

High-potential verticals

Use cases—explore a multitude of new possibilities

Operational learnings from real 5G positioning deployments

Key features and capabilities

Key features and capabilities

From tech to impact

5G Advanced location services: Business and technology overview

Monetizing location: Network APIs and 5G SA enabled Advanced location services for CSPs

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Ericsson Network Location

Packet Core Controller

Macro

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Ericsson 5G Advanced solutions

5G positioning: Locating 5G devices anywhere

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