By 2020 over 20.000 million devices will be connected. This means that the wireless industry is moving forward and enabling the rules for the Cellular Internet of Things (CIoT).

4G Americas, the Association of the Wireless Industry and voice of the 5G in the Americas, published a book called “Cellular Technologies Enabling the Internet of Things”, which examines the key considerations about the development of an integral solution for the CIoT.

The book analyses the most important aspects that include the development of cases of use of IoT specifically for cellular technologies, such as promoters of the IoT Market and the whole technical framework for cases of use of IoT Machine Communications for mobile phones (MTC).

The CIoT will be an important access methodology to provide support and enable the communications on large scale of IoT devices. Furthermore,

• Cellular technologies, together with local connectivity technologies such as Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, will address a number of cases of IoT use that shall grant ubiquitous mobility, resilient connectivity and economic scale.

• A range of solutions, approaches and technologies are the tools to overcome the challenge of unlocking the value of a web that is interconnected by devices in a safe way, with a minimum consumption of energy, making the provision and management of capacities easier while ensuring a performance with proper robustness and latency.

• New functionalities are defined. They include a wider coverage for challenging locations, low levels of energy consumption for apps that demand long life of the battery and optimizations to support a large number of devices per cell.

• The most recent LTE-Advanced functionalities provide support for several categories of MTC devices of high a low performance and optimized costs, within the context of use of MTC that include emerging vertical markets, such as the automotive, the management of fleets, wearable devices, health care and smart cities.

The report Cellular Technologies Enabling the Internet of Things is available for free download at www.4gamericas.org.

Source: Revista Gerencia