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03 NB-IoT Solutions
<1%
Revenue proportion
: 372 million
Connection increase
0
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Financial
performance M2M revenue 372 million in FY 14/15, +25% Y/Y
400 372
298
25% 163
205
Year-on-year (Y/Y) 200 125
revenue growth
0
FY10/11 FY11/12 FY12/13 FY13/14 FY14/15
Energy data
Connection management Energy Logistics
management
IoV
IMR, asset tracking, and some IoV applications are Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) applications.
CCTV, eHealth
Enhanced Machine Type
30% Medium rate GPRS
Communication (eMTC)
(< 1 Mbit/s)
CDMA can hardly come in handy
POS, smart home, before the GPRS/CDMA
/MTC/eMTC
M2M backhaul network exits.
Short Range
LPWA
10.00
20.00
Satellite 8.00
Traditional cellular network
15.00
MAN
6.00 3%
10.00 4.00
LPWA
5.00 2.00
2019
Cellular
0.00
0.00 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Data source: Machina <2015.06 Machina forecast_data>
Although the short range technology is still taking the dominate position dealing with M2M communications:
LPWA connections have witnessed a dramatic increase since 2016, which are expected to exceed that of the cellular
connections by 2019, and the number will be up to around 1.4 billion.
IoT/M2M connections based on the LPWA technology are expected to reach 11% out of the total connections by 2024.
The market space of cellular connections + LPWA connections will surge from 3% in 2015 to 17% by 2024, and the number
of cellular connections + LPWA connections is expected to reach 2.7 billion by 2020.
03 NB-IoT Solutions
Phase Description
Huawei developed the prototype and submitted proposals to the GRAN standard organization, featuring FDMA on the air interface and Gb
NB-M2M
interface between the base station and the core network.
In order to improve the possibility of the standard adoption, Huawei worked with Qualcomm to submit a Narrowband Cellular Internet of Things
NB-CIoT (NB-CIoT) solution (uplink Huawei solution + downlink Qualcomm solution) to the RAN standard organization with a successful solution
iteration (SI) wrap-up. In addition, the NB LTE SI solution of Ericsson remained to be completed.
NB-IoT NB-IoT WI project initiation requires a combination of the Huawei, Qualcomm, and Ericsson solution.
SA2
RAN Plenary
03 NB-IoT Solutions
Single EPC
Gb/IuP GU/L
S/S1/MI
HLR/PCRF
Single RAN
G/U/L/NB IoT
MI
2
IoT EPC 3 Third-party
1 application
NB IoT IoM platform
New sites
server
Industrial device NB-IoT module Base station Core network IoT platform
Sensor interfaces Wireless connection Low-cost site solution Mobility, security, and connection Protocol stack adaption at application layer
Application camping Virtual SIM card A new air interface management SIM Over-The-Air (OTA) service
Sensor interfaces which supports No SIM card secure UE access UE and event subscription management
Application camping Massive IoT UE energy-saving features Application platform interface (API)
connection Delay-insensitive UE adaptation enabling (industry, developers)
Congestion control and traffic scheduling OSS/BSS (self-service registration,
Charging enablement charging)
Big data analytics
1 The NB-IoT solution makes full use of the existing site infrastructure to reduce deployment costs.
2 Interfaces are optimized, 30% of the signaling overheads are reduced, and the same goes to the UE power consumption.
The IoT exclusive core network based on the CloudEdge platform optimization can be pooled with the existing core networks, therefore the cost for each
3
connection is reduced.
Carrier-class
High security
availability
Note: The maximum transmit power of GSM UEs can reach 33 dBm, while that of NB-IoT UEs is 23 dBm. Therefore, the power
spectrum density of NB-IoT UEs is 7 dB higher than that of GSM UEs.
Active timer Active timer TAU/RAU timer Reduce the idle mode paging listening times
Start Expiration Expiration/MO
Power saving mode
Active Idle PSM Active
DRX cycle eDRX cycle
DL data
About 50k devices/cell Key technology 2: air interface
signaling overhead reduction
Key technology 4: core network
Key technology 3: optimization
eNodeB optimization UE context storage
Independent admission Downlink data cache
Insensitive to delay congestion control
UE context storage
Traffic model
Used in the early-stage carrier POC test BODICA chip-based module, which is half of the ICENI
Used in the Shenzhen and Shanghai exhibition halls, as well chip size
as Mobile World Congress (MWC) demonstration
API
Co-site
Omnidirectional
Co-antenna
antenna
Co-RXU
Co-CPRI
Co-RxU
Co-transmission
Co-OM
Baseband processing board reuse CPRI MUX
Dual-star topology
BBU
Single OM
FAN
U/L BB GTMU
UPEU
UBBP UMPT(M2M/U/L)
03 NB-IoT Solutions
Connected City
Wide Area Fixed (33%) c Environment monitoring
25.00
d Smart parking
Short Range
20.00
a Ancillary equipment
Satellite Connected Health
15.00
b Health monitoring
(7%)
c Clinical remote monitoring
MAN
10.00
a Construction equipment monitoring
LPWA Connected Industry
5.00 b Intelligent agriculture
(7%)
c Supply chain
Cellular
0.00
a White goods
b Smart building
Connected Living
From Machina 2015.06 research &working (2%) c Tracking
d IMR
Status query (such as parking occupancy and street lamp status) is highly-delay-sensitive. Generally the
Manual query Second-level
delay should be less than 5s, and no more than 15s for log query.
Deliver control command to the UE leveraging the wireless network
Remote switch Secondlevel Gas meter emergency control delay should be less than 5s, and no more than 2 minutes for street lamp
switch.
Critical alarm (such as smoke and disaster alarm) delay should be less than 5s.
Alarm reporting Secondlevel
General alarm (such as status report) delay can be prolonged to the minute-level.
UEs should report data together with the timestamps.
Clock synchronization Minute-level
Support time modification through the network for at least one time each day
Configuration parameters (such as sensor monitoring threshold, alarm threshold, and report period) are
Parameter configuration Minute-level
delivered to UEs through the wireless network.
When services are interrupted during a UE software upgrade, the interruption duration that can be tolerated
Firmware update Hour-level
for the consumer service is rather limited.
Power monitoring MO service Hour-level All LPWA services must support power monitoring.
Mobile application (such as logistics and tracking) requires continuous location information update, while the
Location reporting MO service Hour-level
location function can be disabled regularly for static services.
A typical MO service with low delay requirement at hour-level in general
Periodic report MO service Hour-level
Adjustable report period with a step of 1 hour
*LPWA service behavior analysis based on the ESTI specifications. MO = mobile originated
Power Number of
Coverage Rate Latency Mobility UE Cost Reliability
Consumption Connections
Hour-level latency
Power consumption
Coverage is required for MO Designed for
is determined by
determines Rate requirement is services, while the applications
the coverage level Similar to the
rate, latency, derived from the man-machine such as
under some LTE network
and energy latency. interaction service logistics and
specific traffic
consumption. requires second- pet tracking
models.
level latency.
Downlink:
200 bytes/2 hours
Standalone/Guard
2.0 years 99%
300 kbit/s Communication
MCL 164 dB < 10s 30 km/h 200 bytes/day One message per Hybrid
Inband200 kbit/s module < 5
20 dB 164 dB coverage Does not 15.2 years 2 hours: 80 K automatic
Uplink: USD
coverage 99% sending support One message per repeat request
3.75 kHz6 kbit/s Excluding
enhancement success rate handovers * Battery 5000 5 minutes: 3.3 K (HARQ)
15 kHz24 kbit/s batteries
mwh/3.3 V, UE RF retransmission
15 kHz Multi-tone
23 dBm
288 kbit/s
Delayms Delayms
Man-machine interaction latency requirement < 5
Note that MCS3 and MCS1 in the left and right
figure respectively should be the minimum
standard for coverage planning.
Rate, latency, and power consumption are determined by the coverage under a fixed traffic model.
Coverage improvement is equivalent to rate increase and power consumption reduction.
The message delay for the worst coverage level is 30 times that of the common coverage level.
Likewise, the UE power consumption also increases by 30 times.
China 2015 penetration rate of the smart water meter reaches 23%, with the 2. Wireless product is the trend, and LoRa Alliance has won the support
annual growth rate of 4%
from some water meter vendors for its mature industry chain.
Smart water meter quantity trend in China (million PCS) Vendors in mainland China: Foreign vendors:
Data source: The Sixth China Water Meter Symposium Ningbo Donghai Group, Suntront Homerider Systems (France) has deployed 4
Water meter Smart water Smart water meter Technology, Jiangxi Sanchuan (with million meter collection points
output meter output market penetration commercial products), Chongqing Smart 1.2 million water meters in France are LoRa
102.13 Water Meter Group (testing), Hangzhou meters
96.35
90.9 Holley Technology (no commercial NKE WATTECO adopts LoRa smart water meter
85.75
76.32 80.9 products released yet) chips for commercial use
70 72
5.26
3. NB-IoT should narrow the gap of power consumption and latency with
4.79
5.1
5.24 million
million 41.87
PCS
that of the LoRa meter.
4.29 million PCS 36.61
million million PCS 31.82 Mainland China requires that the water meter life be at least 6 years. Australian requires that
PCS 21.84 PCS 26.58
10.5 13.68 17.55 the water meter life be at least 10 years.
Because of the disadvantages in power consuming and latency, the power consumption
caused by data transmission of NB-IoT is much more than that of LoRa, which requires a
larger-capacity battery. Therefore, the cost greatly increases.
Power Number of
Coverage Rate Latency Mobility UE Cost Reliability
Consumption Connections
(Satisfied, 19000
164 Satisfied Satisfied None - 3380 Satisfied
mAH battery)
Downlink:
Standalone/Guard 200 bytes/2 hours
300 kbit/s 2.0 years
< 10s
Inband200 kbit/s 30 km/h 200 bytes/day Module < 5 One message per
MCL 164 dB 164 dB 99%
Uplink: Does not 15.2 years USD 2 hours: 80 K
20 dB coverage coverage HARQ
3.75 kHz6 kbit/s support Excluding One message per
enhancement 99% sending retransmission
15 kHz24 kbit/s handovers * Battery 5000 batteries 5 minutes: 3.3 K
success rate
15 kHz Multi-tone mwh/3.3 V, UE RF 23
288 kbit/s dBm
Smart parking
server Service management
1 platform
Real-time parking space usage is
Occupied/vacant available to administrators.
2
4.5G
network 3
4
Vehicle
detector
P Available Lots
Drive
forward Reverse
Geomagnetic sensor
1 foot above the
ground
South
Earth's magnetic field strength ranges from 0.5 Gaussian to 0.6 Gaussian, and this value is fixed within a large range
(about several kilometers).
When a ferromagnetic object, such as the car, exposed in the magnetic field, it will produce magnetic disturbance. In this
case, the nearby geomagnetic sensor is able to measure the magnetic field strength changes, therefore checks the
existence of the vehicle. Common methods are as follows:
Power Number of
Coverage Rate Latency Mobility UE Cost Reliability
Consumption Connections
5 years (satisfied,
144 (outdoor) Satisfied Satisfied (30s) None - 1000/cell Satisfied
19000 mAH battery)
Downlink:
Standalone/Guard 200 bytes/2 hours
300 kbit/s 2.0 years
Inband200 kbit/s < 10s 30 km/h 200 bytes/day One message per
MCL 164 dB Module < 5 USD 99%
Uplink: 164 dB coverage Does not 15.2 years 2 hours: 80 K
20 dB coverage Excluding HARQ
3.75 kHz6 kbit/s 99% sending support One message per
enhancement batteries retransmission
15 kHz24 kbit/s success rate handovers * Battery 5000 5 minutes: 3.3 K
15 kHz Multi-tone mwh/3.3 V, UE RF 23
288 kbit/s dBm