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By Monika Gupta<\/strong>\n
\nFor today's young millennial, mobile phone and broadband internet services are basic needs. However, a quick glance at the history of telecom shows that these services are just over a hundred years old.
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\nAlexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876 and in 1901 Marconi transmitted the first trans-Atlantic radio message. Mobile networks were introduced in 1979, with the first commercial automated cellular network starting in Japan and then spreading throughout the rest of the world in the 1980s\/90s. The World Wide Web (WWW) was invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. And today, the number of mobile connections stand at more than 8 billion globally with 3.7 billion of those connected to the Internet.
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In the last few decades, telecommunications technology<\/a> and the Internet have had a revolutionary impact on human culture and commerce. But, if one thinks this is revolutionary and that the last hundred years have been phenomenal in the growth of telecommunication technology and its use, just take a look at the future predictions and outlook.
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The latest Ericsson mobility report, as of June 2017, forecasts 29 billion plus connected devices globally by 2022. Nearly 10 billion will be phones (mobile\/fixed) with another 1.7 billion PC, laptop and tablet connections and the remaining 18 billion will be IoT<\/a> connections. These IoT connections can be machines, connected cars, meters, sensors, point of sales terminals, consumer electronics, wearables and many more such devices. Internet of Things (IoT) has arrived and is growing at a rapid speed each day.
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\nThe Internet of Things (IoT) is defined as \"the inter-networking of physical devices, vehicles, buildings and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators and network connectivity which enable these objects to collect and exchange data\". It can be divided into short-range and wide-area segments. Short-range consists mostly of devices connected by unlicensed radio technologies with a typical range of 100m (using Wi-Fi, ZigBee, Bluetooth) or connected by fixed-line LAN, PLC. Wide-area segment consists of devices connected using cellular or unlicensed low-power technologies (LoRa, Sigfox) or satellite connection.
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\nIt is the industry\/vertical and the use case that determines whether short-range or wide-area IoT solution shall be used. It further determines whether the requirement is of Massive IoT or Critical IoT application. Massive IoT applications are characterized by high connection volumes and small data traffic volumes, low cost devices and low energy consumption whereas Critical IoT applications have very different demands of ultra-reliability, high availability, low latency and high data throughput.
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\nIoT applications are now starting to be used across all industries\/verticals like Transport, Home automations, Autonomous vehicles, Public safety and emergency services, Health care, Smart cities, Industrial automations \/ Manufacturing, Retail, BFSI sector, Energy and Utilities, Agriculture and across a variety of use cases such as:
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\n- asset\/inventory management and remote monitoring
\n- predictive maintenance, operational health monitoring & outage management
\n- quality assurance and smart testing
- increased operational efficiency and productivity<\/a>
\n- increased customer control with easy availability of real-time co-related information
\n- data management and analytics for comprehensive insights and forecasting
\n- ensuring safety and security
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\nAs these are still evolving areas and technologies, additional use cases and further evolution of the existing ones are expected to continue to happen.
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\nThe uniqueness of IoT is evident from its definition - \"inter-networking of things, network connectivity to enable collection and exchange of data\". IoT is an ecosystem with various components ranging from devices\/sensors to communication gateways, to network connectivity plus a management platform. The management platform shall further include capabilities of device management, connectivity management, application management, data management & visualization, analytics and external integration for sharing the data\/insights.
\nCreating and managing this ecosystem shall additionally require services for implementing, integrating, hosting, operating, maintaining and ensuring security of this entire ecosystem.
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As a matter of fact, exchanging data and deriving valuable insights across use cases cutting across industries\/verticals shall potentially evolve this ecosystem to a \"network of IoT ecosystems\" (something like the world wide web of IoT). IoT shall hence lead to new business models and new opportunities in the market<\/a> and network service providers<\/a> who have until now excelled in connecting phones, PCs\/Tablets and other consumer devices shall have to develop new capabilities to create and manage the IoT ecosystem and as it matures\/evolves to the network\/web of IoT ecosystems.
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\nIt still being early days, the network service providers can explore multiple approaches towards IoT:
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\nConnectivity - <\/strong>this is the core capability of network service providers and their basal offering towards IoT solutions. They have to ensure that they are ready to offer the range of connectivity options required for IoT solutions such as LTE-M, NB-IoT, unlicensed band LoRaWAN\/Sigfox and going forward 5G. Currently the existing cellular technologies are being used for IoT and globally most operators are deploying or in the process of evaluating\/deploying IoT specific connectivity solutions like LTE-M, NB-IoT, LoRa\/Sigfox and starting 5G trials.
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\nManagement Platform - <\/strong>basic management platform capabilities are already available with the network service providers as part of their connectivity management offering. However IoT management platform needs are much more ranging from device management to application management, improved connectivity management for IoT, e2e data management and visualization, analytics and external integrations. Globally operators are in the process of creating these capabilities, either partial or complete and in various business forms of partnerships, global alliances, globally hosted platforms etc. Offering management platform helps the network service provider increase their play in IoT beyond connectivity and increase their addressable market\/revenue potential while offering a more complete IoT solution to their customers.
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\nEnd to end solution - <\/strong>this is when the network service provider offers all components of the IoT solution right from devices\/sensors to gateways, network connectivity and management platform. But this would need the network service provider to fundamentally change its current operations and would need them to build additional capabilities with respect to infrastructure, organization, business models, partnerships and across functions - selling, solutions, services, support and managing, security. For example, AT&T and Verizon in USA are now offering end to end IoT solutions using an ecosystem of partners, certified device suppliers, developer communities and building own infrastructure (network, platform etc.).
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\nIndustry\/vertical specific approach -<\/strong> this is when the network service providers focuses on a particular industry\/vertical for its IoT solutions for e.g. healthcare, fleet management, connected vehicles. Practically it is most likely that while network service providers shall offer connectivity and management platform for all solutions but for end to end solutions they shall focus on selective industries\/verticals, driven both by their own capabilities and market demands. For example, Deutsche Telekom's Healthcare solutions. Another example is of Vodafone<\/a> crossing 50 million IoT connections globally earlier this year, with particularly strong performance in automotive, healthcare and utilities sectors.
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The coming years shall show us how IoT impacts the telecommunications industry<\/a> and how the network service providers evolve - for sure there will be some trial and error, some innovators, early-adopters and some followers - The Game is On!
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\n(Monika Gupta is Chairman of Telecom Working Group, IET India<\/a> IoT Panel)<\/em>\n\n<\/body>","next_sibling":[{"msid":60253452,"title":"Government mulling 2 per cent relief on GST for digital payments","entity_type":"ARTICLE","link":"\/news\/government-mulling-2-per-cent-relief-on-gst-for-digital-payments\/60253452","category_name":null,"category_name_seo":"telecomnews"}],"related_content":[],"msid":60253561,"entity_type":"ARTICLE","title":"IoT and the new role for network service providers","synopsis":"IoT is an ecosystem with various components ranging from devices\/sensors to communication gateways, to network connectivity plus a management platform.","titleseo":"telecomnews\/iot-and-the-new-role-for-network-service-providers","status":"ACTIVE","authors":[],"Alttitle":{"minfo":""},"artag":"ET CONTRIBUTORS","artdate":"2017-08-28 10:06:49","lastupd":"2017-08-28 10:08:31","breadcrumbTags":["IoT","Industry","Productivity","service providers","vodafone","india","market","technology"],"secinfo":{"seolocation":"telecomnews\/iot-and-the-new-role-for-network-service-providers"}}" data-authors="[" "]" data-category-name="" data-category_id="" data-date="2017-08-28" data-index="article_1">
由莫妮卡古普塔
对于今天的年轻的千禧年,手机和宽带互联网服务的基本需求。然而,瞥一眼电信的历史表明,这些服务超过一百年的历史。
亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔发明了电话在1876年和1901年马可尼第一跨大西洋的无线电信息传播。移动网络于1979年被引入,与第一个商业自动化手机网络在日本开始,然后蔓延世界其它地区在90年代和1980年代。万维网(WWW)是1989年由Tim berners - lee在欧洲核子研究中心发明的。今天,移动连接的数量与37亿年站在全球超过80亿的连接到互联网。
在过去的几十年里,电信技术和互联网对人类文化和商业产生了革命性的影响。但是,如果一个人认为这是革命性的,几百年来一直在非凡的电信技术的发展及其使用,看看未来的预测和展望。
爱立信移动的最新报告显示,截至2017年6月,预测到2022年全球290亿+连接设备。近100亿人将手机(移动/固定)与另外17亿个人电脑,笔记本电脑和平板电脑连接和剩下的180亿年将会是物联网连接。可以将这些物联网连接机器,连接汽车、仪表、传感器、销售点终端、消费电子产品、衣物和更多的这类设备。物联网(物联网)已经到了,每天增长速度迅速。
物联网(物联网)被定义为“网际网路的物理设备、车辆、建筑物和其他物品与电子、嵌入式软件、传感器、执行器和网络连接,使这些对象收集和交换数据”。它可以分为短程和广域段。短程主要由设备连接使用了未经许可的广播技术与典型的100(无线个域网使用wi - fi,蓝牙)或固定连接的局域网,PLC。广域段由设备使用细胞连接或未经许可的低功耗技术(罗拉Sigfox)或卫星连接。
这是行业/垂直和用例,确定应使用短程或广域物联网解决方案。进一步确定大规模物联网或关键的要求是物联网应用程序。大规模物联网应用程序的特点是高连接数量和数据流量小的体积,低成本设备和能耗低而ultra-reliability的关键物联网应用程序有非常不同的要求,高可用性、低延迟和高数据吞吐量。
物联网应用程序现在开始使用所有行业/垂直交通、家庭自动化、自主车辆、公共安全和应急服务、卫生保健、智能城市、工业自动化/制造、零售、BFSI部门、能源和公用事业、农业和跨不同的用例,例如:
-资产/库存管理和远程监控
预见性维护,运营健康监控和故障管理
——质量保证和智能测试
——运营效率和增加生产力
——增加客户控制容易使相互实时信息的可用性
——数据管理和分析全面的见解和预测
——确保安全
随着这些仍在发展和技术领域,更多的用例和进一步发展现有的预计将继续发生。
物联网的独特性是显而易见的从它的定义——“网际网路的事情,网络连接,使收集和交换数据”。物联网是一个生态系统与各种组件从设备/传感器通信网关、网络连通性+一个管理平台。管理平台应当进一步包括设备管理的功能、连接管理、应用程序管理、数据管理和可视化分析和外部集成共享数据/见解。
创建和管理这个生态系统应当另外要求服务实现、集成、托管、操作、维护和确保安全的整个生态系统。
事实上,交换数据和用例跨越行业中获得有价值的见解/垂直应当可能进化出这个生态系统物联网生态系统的“网络”(像万维网的物联网)。物联网将因此导致新的商业模式和新的机遇市场和网络服务提供商直到现在擅长连接手机,电脑/平板电脑和其他消费设备必须开发新的功能来创建和管理物联网生态系统和成熟的网络/ web /发展物联网生态系统。
它仍在初期阶段,网络服务提供商可以探索多种方法对物联网:
连接,这是网络服务提供商的核心能力,对物联网的基础提供解决方案。他们必须确保他们准备提供连通性选项的范围所需的物联网解决方案,如LTE-M NB-IoT,无照乐队LoRaWAN / Sigfox和前进5克。目前现有的蜂窝技术被用于物联网和全球大多数运营商部署或评估/部署物联网过程中特定的连接解决方案像LTE-M NB-IoT,罗拉/ Sigfox 5 g和启动试验。
管理平台- - - - - -基本管理平台功能已经可以与网络服务提供商提供连接管理的一部分。但是物联网管理平台需要更从设备管理应用程序管理、改进的连接管理物联网,e2e数据管理和可视化分析和外部集成。全球运营商在创造的过程中这些能力,部分或完全和在各种商业形式的伙伴关系,全球联盟,全球托管平台等提供管理平台帮助网络服务提供者之外增加他们在物联网连接和增加他们的可寻址市场/收入潜力,同时提供一个更完整的物联网解决方案给客户。
端到端解决方案这是当网络服务提供者提供物联网解决方案的所有组件从设备/传感器网关,网络连接和管理平台。但这将需要网络服务提供者从根本上改变当前的操作,需要构建额外的功能对基础设施、组织、商业模式、合作和跨功能——销售、解决方案、服务、支持和管理,安全。例如,美国AT&T和Verizon现在提供端到端使用一个生态系统的物联网解决方案合作伙伴认证设备供应商,开发者社区和建立自己的基础设施(网络、平台等)。
行业/垂直特定方法-这是当网络服务提供商关注特定行业/垂直的物联网解决方案,如医疗、车队管理,连接车辆。实际上它是最有可能的,网络服务提供者应当提供连接和管理平台为所有的端到端解决方案的解决方案,但是他们应当关注选择性产业/垂直,都由他们自己的功能和市场需求。例如,德国电信的医疗解决方案。另一个例子是,沃达丰(Vodafone)穿越5000万年物联网连接全球今年早些时候,尤其强劲性能在汽车、医疗保健和公用事业领域。
未来几年我们展示物联网如何影响电信行业和网络服务提供商如何演变,肯定会有一些试验和错误,一些创新者,电动汽车的先期使用者也存在变数和一些追随者——游戏!
(莫妮卡古普塔是电信工作小组的主席,专业印度物联网面板)
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