The ‘Mobile IoT Initiative’ is designed to accelerate the commercial availability of Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) solutions in licensed spectrum. Backed by 26 of the world’s leading mobile operators, OEMs, chipset, module and infrastructure companies, this Initiative will facilitate demonstrations, proofs of concept and trials of a selection of complementary LPWA licensed spectrum technologies. It will also provide analysis and feedback to assist 3GPP in standardising the technologies.
Market Opportunity for Low Power Wide Area networks
LPWA networks are designed for Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) applications that have low data rates, long battery lives and that operate in remote and hard to reach locations. Because of their low data usage, LPWA modules and connectivity will be low cost, making it easier to deploy across a number of different verticals such as utilities, agriculture, manufacturing, wearables and transport.
It is an emerging area of the IoT and represents a huge market opportunity as the IoT scales. Analyst firms including Analysys Mason, Machina Research and Strategy Analytics anticipate that there will be 2.7 billion LPWA connections by 2022.
Complementary Technologies Using Licensed Spectrum
Due to the diversity of IoT application requirements, a single technology is not capable of addressing all of the LPWA use cases and so the initiative will focus on three proposed complementary licensed 3GPP standards: LTE Machine Type Communication, Extended Coverage GSM and Narrow band IoT technologies. LPWA technologies in licensed spectrum can be deployed in a simplified manner, without sacrificing key customer requirements, such as battery lifetime and security.
Mobile operators already provide reliable end-to-end IoT platforms that allow customers to scale and manage their business requirements. They also have unrivalled global network coverage as well as technical and business support to react to a customer’s changing needs.
It is expected that initial specifications for LPWA solutions will be completed by the end of 2015 and included in 3GPP Release 13, with first implementations in early 2016 and full commercial solutions following later in the year. For more information on the Mobile IoT Initiative, please contact connectedliving@gsma.com
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