Networks for Smart cities Joy Rajan Cheruvathoor iet

Working to engineer a better world

Networks for Smart Cities

Joy R Cheruvathoor


The organisation where great minds meet


Agenda

Introducing the IET

Connectivity for the IoT

Smart Cities – Services

Smart City Networks

LPWANs

3

Working to engineer a better world 4

Who are we ?

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

is a 144 years old, global professional body, based in the UK


What do we do

We inspire, inform and influence the global engineering community,

supporting technology innovation to meet the needs of society

We offer international accreditation for

engineering courses

We offer a wide and deep range of

engineering knowledge resources

We offer Memberships for working

professionals and students

We recognise engineering excellence

with awards and scholarships

We provide a platform for industry

and academia to exchange ideas


Thought Leadership (Sectors Focus)

Internet of Things

Renewables and Solar

Electro mobility and urban development

6


Internet of Things at IET

Global Advisory Board

Core Panel

4 Vertical Groups

Retail

Energy

Healthcare

Agriculture

4 Horizontal Groups

IoT Labs

Regulatory & Legal

Education

Social Impact


Agenda

Introducing the IET



Smart City Networks

LPWANs

8


The future of Things is Connected

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

2015E 2016E 2017E 2019E 2020E

24b Estimated IoT devices installed By 2020

41% CAGR: Total IoT devices

installed

Sizing the Market

0.9 2.1

.1

7.6 4.7 0.4

INVESTED 2015-2020 ($ Trillion)

ROI 2015-2020 ($ Trillion)

3

Source: Economic Times – http://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internet/internet-of-things-report-2015-when-things-talk-back/49718805

http://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internet/internet-of-things-report-2015-when-things-talk-back/49718805


















Smart City Services

10

Copyright © 2013 MSc Group Project: Towards Smart Cities Copyright © 2013 IDF Intel Developer Forum


Smart City Networks

11

Source: Machina Research 2014


Agenda

Introducing the IET



Smart City Networks

LPWANs

12


LPWAN Features Medium- Long Range:

The end-nodes can be up to 10 kilometers from the gateway, depending on the technology

deployed

Low Data Rate: Less than 5,000 bits per second. Often only 20-256 bytes per message sent several times a day

Low Power Consumption: This makes very long battery life - upto10 years possible

13

LPWA is particularly attractive for the many applications that require the connection of widely scattered devices that only need to send occasional status updates with some latency


Some LPWAN Technologies Sigfox

Sigfox sets up antennas on towers (like a cell phone company) and receives data transmissions from devices

like parking sensors or water meters. BPSK narrowband, transmissions occur in the 868 or 915 MHz bands

Weightless

Weightless has open standards and open ecosystem. They believe a global standard can be achieved by

allowing for open software innovation. Weightless protocols operate in sub-1 GHz unlicensed spectrum

Link Labs

Link Labs builds hardware that supports the LoRa Alliance standard, but also developed a proprietary system to

provide more advanced functionality. Symphony Link is the Link Labs LPWAN solution

Nwave

Nwave runs off an ultra narrowband (UNB) radio, which operates in sub-1 GHz ISM bands.

Ingenu (formerly OnRamp)

Ingenu wireless technology is called Random Phase Multiple Access (RPMA). They differentiate themselves

from the market with this flexible network system. They use 2.4GHz. Uses higher power.

LoRa Alliance

The LoRa Alliance promotes an open standard for LoRa based networks called LoRaWAN

14

and many more…


More LPWA in the pipeline Intel, Nokia and Ericsson are working on Narrowband-LTE (NB-LTE) which they believe is the

route to power efficiency for IoT devices which needed higher mobility

Qualcomm is working on 4G MTC (machine type communications) which would run at a higher

bit rate

Wi-Fi Alliance is seeking a wireless standard fit for IoT. The 802.11ah standard would offer long

range (up to 1km), low power Wi-Fi and 100kpbs data rates, and support nearly 8000 devices

connected to one access point

GSMA’s initiative will focus on three proposed complementary licensed 3GPP standards: LTE

Evolutions, GSM evolutions and Clean Slate technologies

15

Check for features like roaming, packetization and retry, disconnected operations, quality of service, firmware upgrades OTA and repeaters


GSMA for LPWA Low power consumption that enable devices to last up to 10 years on a single charge

Optimised data transfer that supports small, intermittent blocks of data

Low device unit cost that can be sub-$5* per module

Few base stations required to provide coverage

Easy installation of the network – works out of the box

Dedicated network authentication

Optimised for low throughput, long or short distance

Sufficient indoor penetration and coverage

16

20 August 2015, London: The GSMA announced the ‘Mobile IoT Initiative’, a new project backed by 26 of the world’s leading mobile operators, OEMs, chipset, module and infrastructure companies for LPWA solutions in

licensed spectrum

Note * pricing at projected high volumes


Sweetspots for LPWA Parking space management

Crop monitoring where LPWA devices could be scattered over an entire farm to provide

feedback on local soil conditions (e.g. the need for fertilizer or water)

Basic Metering where data is collected once a week or month of energy / water consumption

Rainfall monitoring - collecting data at periodic intervals from sensors scattered over a wide

area

Facilities management services which can see huge benefits in operational efficiency. Detect when city bins are full

when rodent traps have been activated

when soap dispensers need to be filled

17


We are…

18

A global dedicated team

of 1300 M2M experts 36.2m

M2M connections

The world’s largest

communications network

We serve every country in the world including 4G in 43 countries


In Conclusion… Smart City requirements for new M2M connections will grow explosively in coming Years.

The Internet of Things would have more than 20bn connected devices by 2022.

Current wide area cellular technologies are not able to deliver the full addressable

opportunity for MNOs Costs are too high, coverage can be insufficient and battery life is too

short so that many potential users of M2M solutions cannot make the business case for

deployment.

A low cost core network is required MNOs’ overall OSS/BSS environments can be too

complex for billions of low revenue-per-connection devices. Current cost of delivering core

transport network, data access services and BSS/OSS functions needs to be both low-priced

and profitable.

Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) solutions can plug the gap LPWA solutions are designed

specifically for M2M and typically offer long range, low power consumption and ease of

management.

Functionality like roaming, retry, OTA firmware upgrades and repeaters may not be supported in

LPWAN

19


LPWAN – increasing the spread of IoT

20

Source: Machina Research 2014


Thank you!

[email protected]

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

