NB-IoT as enabler for mMTC

NB-IoT

• Narrow Band Internt of Thing （窄帶物聯網）
• is a standards-based low power wide area (LPWA) technology developed to enable a wide range of new IoT devices and services。
• significantly improves the power consumption of user devices, system capacity and spectrum efficiency, especially in deep coverage
• 10 years battery life
• Each device habing TCP/IP stack

IoT market landscape

• 28 billions of connected devices by 2021
• IoT market USD 19 trillions by 2026
• More than 10⁴ companies involved by 2020

IoT Classification

• Massive IoT

• Mission-critial IoT

Massive IoT

Properties

• Long range , link budget of 164dB
• Power efficient, 10+year device battery life , 100x netowork energy efficiency
• Massive Scale, 1+million devices/km^2
• extreme simplicity , scaling lowest-end use cases

Massive IoT enablers

Comparison

NB-IoT implementation and band

Implementations

• In-band LTE
• Guard band LTE
• standalone

Opeartioal frequencies

• 868 MHZ
• LTE Bands

NB-IoT area

Marine cargo IoT

https://www.marinetraffic.com/

• Container monitoring is IoT
• Most cargo vessels are close coast

• They use statellite links for IoT

• use onshore NB-IoT infrastructure
  • direct offloading
  • ship-mounted relays
  • UAV relays

Earth Curvature