Nokia opened up on its new AI-powered feature, Analyze This, designed to automatically detect issues across industrial private wireless networks and serves to expand the vendor’s Network Digital Twin (NDT) platform.

During a media briefing, Nokia system engineer Paul Hatfield explained that Analyze This was “designed to act like an expert network engineer, but faster and more efficient”. The tool continuously monitors device performance data to identify anomalies, analyse root causes and recommend corrective actions. Pilot deployments began last month with selected customers.

Amit Shah, head of applications in Nokia’s CNS-ECE division, emphasised the simplicity of the design, noting that users are not expected to interpret cellular metrics. Instead, colour-coded indicators highlight whether KPIs such as latency or throughput are within an acceptable range. The tool supports more than 100 types of anomalies and correlations, with sensitivity settings that can be adjusted by customers, and is capable of drawing correlations across devices, cells, locations and timeframes.

Shah underscored the importance of accessibility, explaining that the goal was to “remove complexity” and create “a single source of truth” for enterprises deploying networks across ports, mines, factories and other industrial settings. “What matters to our customer is how is the device experiencing the network,” he stated.

Avoid hallucinations
Hatfield emphasised that Analyze This is not built on generative AI, which enables the system to avoid “hallucinations”. Instead, he explained that it integrates the “expert knowledge” accumulated by Nokia’s network specialists and R&D teams into an automated analysis using AI and machine learning techniques.

The software operates with a small footprint on-premises, running on Nokia’s MXIE industrial edge platform and requiring no large data centre resources. It is available as a licensable add-on for existing NDT subscribers under a flat subscription model.

“Our customers are not CSPs,” Shah concluded. “They are not experts in radio planning… They care more about, how quickly can I get my truck from pit to port? How quickly can I get that robot on the factory floor?… That’s why we bring this capability into the foreground and into their hand.”

Nokia further pushed its digital twins ambitions this week with the launch of an FTTH digital twin on its Altiplano network automation platform to provide a unified view of active and passive fibre components, alongside new AI tools to improve reliability and efficiency across fibre deployments.