160606-GSA-The-Evolution-to-NB-IoT NB-IoT全球试商用进展总结(英文).pdf

The Evolution to Narrow Band Internet of Things June 2016 As the mobile industry expands to 10 billion mobile broadband and voice connections, the industry focus for growth is now on connecting things. GSA is forecasting 75 billion connected things by 2025 as mobile connectivity extends GSA is forecasting into multiple vertical markets. 75 billion Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) will become one of the dominant 3GPP technologies connected things to enable this market growth and will impact by 2025 most, if not all, companies and markets over the next 10 to 15 years. GSA will continue to follow the progress of the deployments and evolution to NB-IoT and report on its progress quarterly. ©Copyright 2016 Global mobile Suppliers Association 1 Overview A flurry of companies including large and small, well established and start-ups have entered the 24 Operators are Internet of Things (IoT) race to market. These committed to companies include stalwarts of the wireless infrastructure industry such as Ericsson, deploying NB-IoT Huawei, and Nokia as well as established silicon companies such as Intel and Qualcomm. There is a growing number of companies who are actively working on IoT use cases in vertical markets from 7 Commercial Education to Agriculture, from Automotive to and 3 trial Cat-1 Robotics, to name just a few of the opportunity areas being addressed. The market is anticipated Networks have to grow rapidly over the next 5 years based on been announced 3GPP technologies such as enhancements for Machine Type Communications (eMTC), Narrow by Operators Band IoT (NB-IoT) and EC-GSM-IoT, which in combination with Power Saving Mode (PSM) and Extended Discontinuous Reception (e-DRX), 2 Cat