Название: NB-IoT Use Cases and Devices: Design Guide
Автор: Kersten Heins
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2022
Страниц: 133
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 22.8 MB

This book presents the cellular wireless network standard NB-IoT (Narrow Band-Internet of Things), which addresses many key requirements of the IoT. NB-IoT is a topic that is inspiring the industry to create new business cases and associated products. The author first introduces the technology and typical IoT use cases. He then explains NB-IoT extended network coverage and outstanding power saving features which are enabling the design of IoT devices (e.g. sensors) to work everywhere and for more than 10 years, in a maintenance-free way. The book explains to industrial users how to utilize NB-IoT features for their own IoT projects. Other system ingredients (e.g. IoT cloud services) and embedded security aspects are covered as well. The author takes an in-depth look at NB-IoT from an application engineering point of view, focusing on IoT device design. The target audience is technical-minded IoT project owners and system design engineers who are planning to develop an IoT application.

Cellular NB-IoT technology (“NB” = narrowband) is quite radically focusing on a group of typical IoT use cases with low bandwidth requirements. As a consequence, a single NB-IoT network cell can handle 100,000+ NB-IoT devices at the same time, thus enabling massive use in high-density environments or for events. In addition, NB-IoT devices can run from battery in unattended environments and without any maintenance for 10+ years. Thanks to outstanding power-saving mechanisms, NB-IoT enables zero-touch IoT applications which have not been feasible before. In addition, it offers wide network coverage for rural areas as well as deep network penetration into buildings even below ground level.