NarrowBand – Internet of Things (NB-IoT)
NarrowBand-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is a standards-based low power
wide area (LPWA) technology developed to enable a wide range of new IoT
devices and services. NB-IoT significantly improves the power
consumption of user devices, system capacity and spectrum efficiency,
especially in deep coverage. Battery life of more than 10 years can be
supported for a wide range of use cases.
New physical layer signals and channels are designed to meet the
demanding requirement of extended coverage – rural and deep indoors –
and ultra-low device complexity. Initial cost of the NB-IoT modules is
expected to be comparable to GSM/GPRS. The underlying technology is
however much simpler than today’s GSM/GPRS and its cost is expected to
decrease rapidly as demand increases.
Supported by all major mobile equipment, chipset and module
manufacturers, NB-IoT can co-exist with 2G, 3G, and 4G mobile networks.
It also benefits from all the security and privacy features of mobile
networks, such as support for user identity confidentiality, entity
authentication, confidentiality, data integrity, and mobile equipment
identification. The first NB-IoT commercial launches have been completed
and global roll out is expected for 2017/18.
NB-IoT Logo
November 22, 2017
Toolkit
GSMA
“NB-IoT” stands for “Narrow Band-Internet of Things”. It is a low
power wide area radio technology standard published by 3GPP in Release
13 that addresses the requirements of the Internet of Things (IoT). The
technology provides improved indoor and outdoor coverage, supports
massive numbers of low throughput IoT devices, low delay sensitivity,
ultra-low device cost, low device power consumption and optimised
network architecture.
The
NB-IoT ™ logo is designed for network operators
and device, module & chipset manufacturers to market and promote
NB-IoT technology and product. The NB-IoT
™ logo has
been developed for the GSMA NB-IoT Forum to enable members and other
technology users to demonstrate their support for a unified global
technology and to clearly label products and services using NB-IoT