Deterministic timing for campus networks, factory automation, URLLC and industrial IoT.
802.1AS
TSN-ready
Compact
Edge form factors
IT-friendly
Deployable in hours
Private 5G & Industrial customers
Sector use case
A short walkthrough of how TimeBeat hardware is deployed across this sector — the architecture, the operational realities and the customer outcomes.
Designing the sync fabric for enterprise private 5G without the operational weight of public mobile.
Why
Private 5G brings carrier-grade wireless into the factory, the port, the mine and the campus. But the use cases — URLLC-driven robotics, autonomous AGVs, TSN-integrated machinery — need timing that's tighter than anything a shared public network can offer. Industrial clocks must agree to sub-microsecond levels, integrate cleanly with Ethernet TSN, and survive the GNSS limitations of indoor environments. For most industrial buyers, this is unfamiliar territory — and the margin for error is zero.
Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications demand deterministic end-to-end timing. Drift anywhere in the chain and the SLA the use case was built around falls apart.
Industrial Ethernet runs on Time-Sensitive Networking with 802.1AS. Private 5G timing needs to hand cleanly off into TSN domains without translation loss.
Factories and warehouses have poor GNSS reception. Grandmasters need to hold over for long periods on local oscillators — or get GNSS from a rooftop antenna run that the ops team can maintain.
Private 5G is deployed by system integrators and IT teams, not telecom engineers. Timing infrastructure has to be deployable without a PhD in PTP.
How
Requirements
Compliance & standards
Deployments
01
Open Time Appliance Mini on the factory floor. Sub-microsecond sync distributed to robots, AGVs and production cells via TSN-capable Ethernet.
02
IEEE 802.1AS timing for Time-Sensitive Networking — bridging private 5G with the existing industrial Ethernet layer.
03
IEC 61850-9-3 Utility profile for sampled value messages and precise event recording in power utility substations.
04
Campus-wide grandmaster with indoor-friendly holdover for autonomous forklifts, mobile robots, RF identification systems.
What to use
The TimeBeat products we most often recommend for deployments like yours.
Software & solutions
Talk to us
Our engineers have deployed timing infrastructure in every one of these sectors. Tell us what you’re building and we’ll tell you exactly how to wire it — no generic decks, no wasted calls.
Further reading
Pillar guide
What a grandmaster actually does, how to choose one, and the three things that separate a grandmaster you can trust.
Pillar guide
The time-error budget, G.8275.1 architecture, and what it takes to operate a fronthaul timing fabric.
Interactive tool
Model the regulatory and operational cost of a GNSS disruption for your industry and oscillator class.
Library
Guides, blogs and case studies tagged to private 5g & industrial.
An engineering decision framework for picking oscillator tier on an Open Time Appliance. Drift maths that matter, real-world holdover scenarios, and where each tier is the right economic answer — not just the best spec sheet.
An engineering-level tour of the 167 telemetry fields the Timebeat Agent emits per cycle to Sync Insight. Nine measurement domains, why each one matters for operations or compliance, and how to pick the handful of fields your Grafana dashboard actually needs day-to-day.
How PTP² Mesh turns a fleet of Timebeat Agents into a self-discovering, self-healing time distribution network. mDNS and DHT peer discovery, seat-based capacity, active-active operation and millisecond failover — for when you need redundancy without the rigidity of classical BMCA hierarchies.
A virtual grandmaster clock is an IP endpoint that looks like a single PTP grandmaster to downstream clients but is backed by multiple physical Timebeat Agents — redundancy, capacity and failover at the topology level, with a single client-facing configuration.
What a PTP grandmaster clock actually does, how to choose one, and what separates a grandmaster you can trust from one that quietly drifts. Written by TimeBeat's engineering team for network architects deploying IEEE 1588 in production.
Choosing between OCXO, double-OCXO and rubidium holdover oscillators in a PTP grandmaster — the drift numbers that matter, the deployment scenarios where each is correct, and the trade-offs nobody talks about.
