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Implementing Cellular IoT Solutions for Digital Transformation

By : Dennis McCain
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Implementing Cellular IoT Solutions for Digital Transformation

By: Dennis McCain

Overview of this book

Even if you’re an IoT technology manager with a sound understanding of wireless local area network technologies like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, you may face many unique challenges when implementing a wireless wide area network (WWAN) IoT solution with cellular technologies with respect to choosing the optimal IoT device, cellular connectivity, and architecture. To help you overcome such roadblocks, this digital transformation book guides you in implementing a robust, end-to-end cellular IoT solution using best practices for all aspects of managing the IoT solution. Starting with an introduction to the top IoT markets and solutions in the context of an enterprise’s digital transformation, this book will show you how this leads to cost savings and new business models. You’ll grasp all you need to know about the IoT system components, life cycle, and best practices for implementing an IoT solution. While the book explains all the leading IoT wireless technologies, the focus is on LTE and 5G cellular technologies. With a review of real-world cellular IoT solution case studies and future IoT trends, you'll be ready to work with wireless IoT technologies, devices, and architectures. By the end of this book, you'll be able to identify the best wireless technologies for your IoT use cases and successfully implement cellular IoT solutions addressing key issues in the solution life cycle.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1: Entering the World of the Internet of Things
5
Part 2: Deep Dive into Cellular IoT Solutions
11
Part 3: Cellular IoT Solution Life Cycle and Future Trends

Validating 5G with IoT

In this chapter, we will provide an overview of the newest cellular technology, called 5G or 5G New Radio (NR), which has been deployed primarily in the US, China, Japan, and South Korea with 198 commercial 5G networks launched globally as of May 2022 [Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA), May 2022]. The 5G standard was released in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 15 in 2018 and, as shown in Figure 5.1, was designed to address the three key service areas of mission-critical control with Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC), enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) with high data rates and capacity, and massive IoT or massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC) with low complexity and power but with high density:

Figure 5.1 – 5G NR services

Figure 5.1 – 5G NR services

As shown in Figure 5.1, the main tenets of 5G that enable these service areas are low latency of less than 20 ms versus over 100 ms with standard long-term...