Unraveling Cellular IoT: from Theory to Practice

Speaker: Jeroen Famaey, Professor

Company/ Institute: imec & Universiteit Antwerpen

Event: 24th workshop

Date: 7 December 2017

Abstract:

We will give a comprehensive overview of cellular communication technologies for IoT, including

  • theoretical overview of functional specs, such as data rate, coverage, energy consumption, mobility, network-based localisation
  • comparison with  LPWAN networks such as LoRa and SigFox
  • overview of specific features of NB-IoT for energy efficiency and scalability
  • overview of available hardware, including features, capabilities and cost
  •  results of field trials with cellular IoT (in imec’s City of Things testbed)

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