NB-IoT Innovation: towards a truly

‘All Connected World’ Luke Ibbetson

June 2016

Our vision

To connect every

machine to transform

lives and businesses

“

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Vodafone: Powering the Internet of Things

The IoT demands a whole range of connectivity solutions

Fixed Satellite 2G-4G LPWA

38m mobile IoT

Connections

Global

27% revenue

growth YoY

1,400 IoT

professionals

84 million MB

of data supplied

each month

Wireless

m

1000m

2000m

3000m

4000m

5000m

Connections - 2G

Connections - 3G

Connections - 4G

Connections - Low power wide area

Global M2M Connections

53% of all M2M

Connections in the

world by 2024

Machina Research Forecasts – Mar 2016*

*This is one analysts view, Vodafone LPWA forecast update due March 2016

Analysts forecast LPWA will become the dominant M2M

connection

Deep Coverage

+20dB > GSM

+200k Devices

per cell

DL/UL Rates

200kbps → 0.3kbps

Sub $2

Modules

$ $

10+ Years

Battery Life

Narrowband

IoT

What Opportunities does NB-IoT Enable?

Alarms and event detectors Market measured in hundreds of thousands

Battery life is ultra critical

Very low data throughput on check and trigger

Gas metering Large homogenous market measured in millions

Battery life and propogation is critical

Large number of potential meter manufacturers

Water metering Large homogenous market measured in millions

Battery life and propagation is critical

Large number of potential meter manufacturers

Liquid and pressurised fuels Large homogenous market measured in millions

Asset is currently un monitored & losses are high

Battery life and propagation is critical

Smart Bins Growing market with good business case

Battery life and network coverage is critical

Complements our hi end connected bins

Environmental Monitoring Latent market waiting for a low power solution

Battery life and network coverage is critical

Fragmented channel to market in low volumes

Smoke and fire alarms Massive market measured in hundreds of millions

Battery life and ability to test device is critical

High volume B2C play

Parking monitoring Market measured in hundreds of thousands

Battery life and low install cost are critical

Low data throughput

Vodafone’s network is ready for NB-IoT

From Vodafone 2016 Result Announcement:

‘We will .. start already next year by

introducing a new technology called Narrow-band IoT.

That basically means that, if you take our existing 4G

network, we do a software upgrade in about 85% of our

installed base that enables this new technology. ‘

- Johan Wibergh, CTO

Our 2020 Goals : All 4G sites with NB-IoT

NB-IoT Proven on Vodafone Spain’s Operational Network

• Technology trial in partnership with Huawei and u-blox

• Live pre-standard NB-IoT network deployment in Vodafone

Spain using re-farmed G900 spectrum

• Solution includes upgrade of Huawei SRAN access nodes and

virtualized core deployment

• Real water meter locations provided by Aguas de Valencia

World’s first pre-standard NB-IoT message sent over a live commercial network in Spain

11 Dec 2015 @VodafoneGroup

Next Steps for Vodafone Spain NB-IoT Trial

• Aguas de Valencia Trial Phase 2 – aiming for the world’s

first live standards-compliant NB-IoT customer field trial

• NB-IoT module integrated into commercial water meter device

• Real deployment of NB-IoT –enabled smart water meters in

distribution network

• Reliable upload of real meter data to utility servers

• SIM device-network authentication

• Precursor to full commercial service in Spain

Ecosystem, ecosystem, ecosystem!!

World’s first NB-IoT Open Lab opened in Newbury, UK

• Forum hosted by GSMA as part of the Mobile IoT inititative

• Objective is to accelerate the development of the NB – IoT

ecosystem, including support of developer communities

• NB-IoT Open Labs will open across the world, supported by:

• Vodafone (Opened April 2016)

• China Mobile

• Etisalat

…… and others!

• Focus is on service innovation, industry development,

interoperability testing and fast, low-cost product compliance

certification

http://www.gsma.com/newsroom/press-release/gsma-

welcomes-mobile-industry-agreement-on-technology-

standards/

• China Unicom

• Telecom Italia

• LG Uplus

GSMA NB-IoT Forum

GSMA NB-IoT Forum Members

NB IoT is supported by over 20 of the worlds largest operators who provide communications for over 2.3bn customers and geographically serve over 90% of the M2M market

NB-IoT Forum delivery in the next year

Full NB-IoT 3GPP Standard

Released

Narrowband LPWA proposal to Connected Living

Apr

3GPP ‘Cellular IoT’ Study Item

May

Cellular IoT live demo @ MWC Barcelona

Mar

GSMA Mobile IoT created

Aug

1st live pre-standard NB-IoT message

Multi-vendor NB-IoT demos @ MWC

Feb Jun

3GPP alignment on single standard

Nov

2015 2014 2016

NB-IoT Forum announced

First NB-IoT Open Lab opened

(Vodafone/Huawei, Newbury UK)

Standard NB-IoT Pilots & Trials

NB-IoT solution

certification

NB-IoT developer

communities

13

April

Multi-region, multi MNO NB-IoT

Open Labs

2017

Device

Management

Key Messages

• The mobile industry has united behind NB-IoT as the strategic solution for LPWA

• The GSMA NB-IoT Forum is promoting and enabling rapid application and device

development and certification. As the founding members, Vodafone and Huawei

will continue working closely to drive the development of eco-system

• With long history of innovation collaboration, Vodafone and Huawei will

continue the partnership to trial and commercially deploy the NB-IoT

technology for building a truly “all connected world”

Thank You