Summary
The goal of this chapter was to provide a technical overview of unlicensed versus licensed technologies and the most prevalent IoT wireless technologies, as well as the associated use cases as a foundation for your enterprise IoT solution. You should have a good context for the trade-offs between licensed and unlicensed wireless technologies and the best practices in selecting and deploying IoT wireless technologies as part of your enterprise IoT solution. In Chapter 4, Leveraging Cellular IoT Technologies, we will cover the primary cellular WWAN IoT technologies, which are Long Term Evolution (LTE), Category M (LTE Cat M) and Narrow Band IoT (NB-IoT). The next chapter on cellular LPWA will provide the context on how cellular LPWA is unique to IoT in specific features and use cases and how it is different from standard LTE and 5G technologies. In the rest of this book, we will focus on cellular LTE and 5G technologies and architectures in the context of enterprise IoT solutions...