Publication detail
Tailoring NB-IoT for Mass Market Applications: A Mobile Operator's Perspective
MAŠEK, P. ŠTŮSEK, M. ZEMAN, K. HOŠEK, J. MIKHAYLOV, K. ANDREEV, S. KOUCHERYAVY, Y. ZEMAN, O. VOTÁPEK, J. ROUBÍČEK, M.
Original Title
Tailoring NB-IoT for Mass Market Applications: A Mobile Operator's Perspective
English Title
Tailoring NB-IoT for Mass Market Applications: A Mobile Operator's Perspective
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Original Abstract
Today, about 6.5 billion "things" are connected to the public space. While this sounds like a lot, still less than 1% of all the things that are surrounding us and could be connected are actually utilizing this opportunity. Hence, the question is why all these devices are not equipped with wireless connectivity? In some cases, they are either too remote, too inaccessible, or there are simply too many of them to make it economically viable. To mitigate this gap, a promising solution emerges, which has the potential to become an enabler for true mass market IoT. In this paper, we discuss a professional point of view expressed by Vodafone Czech Republic a.s. As Vodafone has been one of the first in Europe to complete a commercial Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) network roll-out, we build upon this long-term cooperation. First, we discuss the potential of NB-IoT for mass market applications. Then, we offer unique expert findings that reflect the operator's considerations during implementation, testing, measuring, and evaluating this new 3GPP-ratified communications technology. Moreover, we outline our prototype design of the NB-IoT device and discuss the architecture challenges. Also, the configuration required on the side of a mobile operator is detailed to have NB-IoT communications ready to take off. Finally, we summarize the results obtained in our lab along with numerous field tests that we run during a long-term cooperation between the research partners.
English abstract
Today, about 6.5 billion "things" are connected to the public space. While this sounds like a lot, still less than 1% of all the things that are surrounding us and could be connected are actually utilizing this opportunity. Hence, the question is why all these devices are not equipped with wireless connectivity? In some cases, they are either too remote, too inaccessible, or there are simply too many of them to make it economically viable. To mitigate this gap, a promising solution emerges, which has the potential to become an enabler for true mass market IoT. In this paper, we discuss a professional point of view expressed by Vodafone Czech Republic a.s. As Vodafone has been one of the first in Europe to complete a commercial Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) network roll-out, we build upon this long-term cooperation. First, we discuss the potential of NB-IoT for mass market applications. Then, we offer unique expert findings that reflect the operator's considerations during implementation, testing, measuring, and evaluating this new 3GPP-ratified communications technology. Moreover, we outline our prototype design of the NB-IoT device and discuss the architecture challenges. Also, the configuration required on the side of a mobile operator is detailed to have NB-IoT communications ready to take off. Finally, we summarize the results obtained in our lab along with numerous field tests that we run during a long-term cooperation between the research partners.
Keywords
LPWAN; IoT; NB-IoT; 3GPP; Telco operators
Released
13.12.2018
Location
Abu Dhabi
ISBN
978-1-4673-9526-7
Book
GLOBECOM 2018 - 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference
Pages from
1
Pages to
7
Pages count
7
URL
Documents
BibTex
@inproceedings{BUT151235,
author="Pavel {Mašek} and Martin {Štůsek} and Kryštof {Zeman} and Jiří {Hošek} and Konstantin {Mikhaylov} and Sergey {Andreev} and Yevgeni {Koucheryavy} and Otto {Zeman} and Jakub {Votápek} and Martin {Roubíček}",
title="Tailoring NB-IoT for Mass Market Applications: A Mobile Operator's Perspective",
annote="Today, about 6.5 billion "things" are connected to the public space. While this sounds like a lot, still less than 1% of all the things that are surrounding us and could be connected are actually utilizing this opportunity. Hence, the question is why all these devices are not equipped with wireless connectivity? In some cases, they are either too remote, too inaccessible, or there are simply too many of them to make it economically viable. To mitigate this gap, a promising solution emerges, which has the potential to become an enabler for true mass market IoT. In this paper, we discuss a professional point of view expressed by Vodafone Czech Republic a.s. As Vodafone has been one of the first in Europe to complete a commercial Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) network roll-out, we build upon this long-term cooperation. First, we discuss the potential of NB-IoT for mass market applications. Then, we offer unique expert findings that reflect the operator's considerations during implementation, testing, measuring, and evaluating this new 3GPP-ratified communications technology. Moreover, we outline our prototype design of the NB-IoT device and discuss the architecture challenges. Also, the configuration required on the side of a mobile operator is detailed to have NB-IoT communications ready to take off. Finally, we summarize the results obtained in our lab along with numerous field tests that we run during a long-term cooperation between the research partners.",
booktitle="GLOBECOM 2018 - 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference",
chapter="151235",
doi="10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644487",
howpublished="online",
year="2018",
month="december",
pages="1--7",
type="conference paper"
}