Why 5G should be

as good as 2G for

IoT? Tomasz Stępiński-Ustasiak

29 Jun 2016

London

1

Agenda

My experience in

the IoT market 2 3

4 5 6

Polish m2m

market, how

much 2G is in IoT

Why 2G is such a

success in IoT?

Why 3G is almost

not existent in

M2M applications.

How about LTE?

What are the key

features that 5G

has to inherit form

2G?

Next steps?

My experience in the IoT market Head of pre-sales mobile / Business Development Mananger for mobile ICT solutions

• Promotion 1998 of Telecom

Bretagne a French high

school for telecom.

• Pre-sales Consultant, Pre-

sales Manager, Senior

Product Manager for WAN

fixed networks, DRC,

mobile offers including

MDM and security.

• Responsible for moving

Orange Polska m2m data

transmission offer towards

end2end solution.

• Vertical approach: water

smart metering, lightning,

connected cars,

environment parameter

mesuring, power supply

distribution, eHealth,

wellness.

• Spent 5 years in

Algeria

• another 5 in France

• 2 children

• dirt biker

My path What is important

currently Privately

Polish M2M market

• Very competitive and price sensitive

• Innovation is always driven by customers needs.

• As theft of cars and petrol was a national sport, we developed the connected

cars 10 years ago.

• Most of our M2M solution are being on GSM modules but the boxes are build

locally. We are a large exporter of end2end solutions - for example AIUT a

Polish m2m company exported over 100k devices which are mostly in UK,

Ireland etc.

How much 2G is in IoT

We are heading to

achieve 1 mln M2M

cards

Which GSM technology

is used

Connected devices

during Q1 2016

2G 3G 4G

Technology used

Why 2G is such a success in IoT?

My guess are: • low frequencies used - 900 Mhz - good penetration within buildings and rural

areas

• low cost of modules - down to a couple of $,

• low energy consumption

• but lets speak the m2m device producers:

• enquiry within Polish m2m equipement manufacturers (12 comapnies,

yearly production of about 500k eqt).

Yearly supply

33%

42%

25%

less than 10k 10 - 100k above 100k

Which type of modules do you use

83%

17%

0%

only 2G mostly 2G but also 3G/4G 2G ,3G, 4G

Which module features are important

8%

22%

22% 14% 2%

5%

14%

8%

2% 3% 0%

easy to program

low energy cosumption

price of the module

technical support of the module supplier

throughput

wiegh of the module

amout of heat generated by te module

access to API

QoS management integrated

other (resiliance)

other

list the two most important

9%

26%

26%

13%

0% 4%

18%

0% 0%

4%

0%

easy to program

low energy cosumption

price of the module

technical support of the module supplier

throughput

wiegh of the module

amout of heat generated by te module

access to API

QoS management integrated

other (resiliance)

other

Why 3G is almost not existent in M2M applications?

How about LTE?

3G was advertised with: • bandwidth, latency,

• Video.

• QoS,

For M2M/IoT • High demand for power

• price of modules never dropped

to around 10$.

3G 4G

4G the same • Bandwidth,

• Number of devices connected,

• hopefully we have currently the Cat-0

and Cat-M to be specificated,

• in many aspects the Cat-M will only be

as good as 2G modules and this after

some year of technical verification – by

2020?

What are the key features that 5G has to inherit form 2G?

• faster up to 1Gbps,

• low latency,

• more traffic,

• heterogeneous network access 5G will

be using a lot of frequencies,

• moreover high frequencies to be used

13.4~14 GHz, 18.1~18.6 GHz, 27~29.5

GHz, 38~39.5GHz.

what we know about 5G:

• a focus on current IoT needs, those real

not imagined by equipement suppliers,

• low frequencies to be specified but

more importan used by telco operator

and modules suppliers,

• focus on power consumption,

• low cost

What we needs from 5G :

Next steps

• look closely on what’s really important in IoT connectivity,

• develop at least some common frequencies for IoT in 5G,

• lets start to work on 5G cat-M right now!

• look for advanced solution from regional markets as Poland

ex. Utilities measurements, connected cars…

Thanks / Dziękuję