As the third wave of the development of the information industry, the Internet of Things has emerged from its concept to its application. Various industries are constantly exploring and mining their maximum value. They want to grab the first chance in this wave and provide the technical impetus to the global economic recovery.
Technically, NB-IoT (Narrow Band-Internet of Things) is widely used as a worldwide emerging technology with broad coverage, connectivity, low power consumption, and low cost. These inherent advantages For the ubiquitous Internet of Things terminal access possible.
NB-IoT large-scale commercial soon
In terms of application scenarios, NB-IoT technology can be applied to occasions where traditional communication technologies such as location tracking, environmental monitoring, intelligent parking, remote meter reading, and agriculture are difficult to support. This will bring great convenience to people's daily life. Flexible application scenarios and low cost and other advantages, has attracted major operators and equipment providers to join the Narrowband IoT war situation.
NB-IoT work since the project started in September 2015, has been the industry's attention. On June 16, 2016, at the 72nd meeting of the 3GPP RAN Plenum, held in Busan, South Korea, NB-IoT, as an important topic of the conference, was approved by the RAN Plenary for its corresponding 3GPP protocol content, marking the The research on the NB-IoT standard core protocol widely supported by the wireless industry is completed. The successful completion of the standardization work also marks the NB-IoT is about to enter the stage of commercial scale, and the development of the Internet of Things industry is gaining momentum.
As the standard freeze, there will be more industrial chain enterprises to join the NB-IoT camp, which will prompt NB-IoT rapid large-scale commercial. The commercialization of NB-IoT will also build the largest cellular IoT ecosystem in the world. As a result, more commercial applications will emerge in the second half of 2016 as iron-clad. The huge "Blue Ocean" market for the narrowband Internet of Things has been opened up and explosive growth will occur in the future. According to the GSMA, there will be 270 billion interconnected devices worldwide by 2020, of which 10 billion will be mobile connectivity devices.
Operators beachhead Internet of things market
In the digital era, the Internet of Things has become an important channel for telecom operators to provide digital services. The active development of NB-IoT technologies and the promotion of multi-network collaboration are important tasks for operators to seize new connectivity opportunities. The three major telecom operators' Internet of Things business is relatively late to carry out, and the user experience is far behind the traditional communications business. However, efforts in advancing the business innovation of the Internet of Things are still worthy of recognition.
More importantly, although operators are at the bottom of the Internet industry ecosystem, they have an irreplaceable advantage in the development of the Internet of Things. First of all, operators have abundant network resources. These networks are the basis for Internet of Things (IoT) information transmission. Secondly, telecom operators have a large number of customers with high viscous resources. Finally, operators have mature marketing systems and promotion channels.
Chen Wei, president of China Mobile Internet of Things Research Institute, said: In 2015, the number of China Mobile Internet users reached 60 million and served over 9,500 group customers. By 2020, China Mobile aims to achieve 5 billion "big connections" 100 billion yuan revenue of the Internet of things. To this end, China Mobile is working hand in hand with the industrial chain to jointly build a technology system of "NB-IOT / 5G Network Evolution", "IoT Open Cloud Platform" and "Intelligent IoT Terminal" to support its own goal of "5 billion large connections" set up.
In early June 2016, China Telecom and Huawei signed the NB-IoT Innovation Research Cooperation Agreement, marking the establishment of an all-dimensional partnership between the two parties in the field of innovation in the Internet of Things and a sign that China Telecom is promoting the development of new technologies in the NB-IoT Internet of Things And application, has taken a positive step.
In the IoT deployment, China Unicom (600050, Shares) also showed a positive attitude. Recently, Tian Wenke, general manager of customer department of China Unicom Group, has said publicly that China Unicom plans to launch NB-IoT outfield-scale network test and service demonstration based on 900MHz and 1800MHz in more than five cities this year. Commercially, China Unicom plans to roll out NB-IoT commercial deployments in key cities by the end of 2016 or early 2017.
In addition to operators, the major terminal manufacturers and chip makers have long been involved in the Internet of Things industry, wearable devices based on Internet of Things technology, autonomous vehicles, smart home and so on, to make people's lives more convenient.