Elmo Rent AS announced that the remote-controlled ELMO car connected to the Telia 5G router can be seen at the Digital Hub conference on November 10 in the Creative Hub premises. The event will attract leading figures of companies creating the future of the IT field, and Telia Company CEO Allison Kirkby will also attend the event. ELMO Rent has been cooperating with Telia since 2013, when a solution was developed to open the vehicle doors with the help of an SMS sent by the customer.

Keeping up with the times has brought ELMO's data communication to 4G by now, with the help of which ELMO's remote-controlled car is also moving successfully today. The next logical step for the company is to test 5G technology with Telia and integrate it with an innovative remote control system. The main issue for ELMO Rent at the conference is minimizing the latency between the car and the remote control using the Telia 5G network.

So far, the data transfer delay when using the 4G network has been low enough to ensure safe remote control of the car. Using the 5G network the communication connection delay should be even shorter, which will improve the driver's response time. The idea of remote control as a service is to deliver a car to a customer remotely to his/her door.

The customer can then use the car as a regular rental car and end the rental session anywhere. The operator then remotely takes the car to the next customer.