GRUPPO TELECOM ITALIA

The benefits of NB-IoT

5G World

London, 29th June 2016

TIMLab – Portfolio&Project Management

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Contents

Tech/business positioning of NB-IoT

Short term market opportunities in Italy

The benefits of NB-IoT vs overlay solutions

Where do we are? 3GPP standard status

Short term next steps

New verticals and use cases towards 5G

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Opportunity in LPWA (Low Power Wide Area) market

Market segmentation (based on Bandwidth)

Connections in 2020 Requirements Supported Technology

Medium

Low

High

Sensors, Meters, Smart Parking, Smart agriculture …

Smart Home, Wearable M2M

Smart City, Electronic billboards…

•Small Packet (<100kbps) •Deep Coverage （20dB） •Low power (10 Years) •Low cost (<$5)

•<1Mbps •Low power consumption

•>10Mbps

Zigbee*, Bluetooth*, WiFi*, Sigfox*,

LoRa*, WMBus*, NB-IoT

GSM/GPRS/CDMA,

LTE MTC (R12, R13)

3G/4G

We need Advanced Technology to boost LPWA Market

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*Not all the requirements are fulfilled by this technologies

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Focus on smart metering

Short term market opportunities in Italy

• Italian regulatory AEEGSI has planned a rollout of 11M gas meters by end 2018 •Smart meters should be remote read and managed using two-way radio communication between the meter and the Utilities’ central system. •Currently TIM is providing 2G M2M SIM and running pilot projects based on WMBus 169MHz communication

Gas Water Electricity Other (e.g. district heating)

Mass market volumes

22M 15M 37M TBD

•AEEGSI is going to regulate also other smart metering use cases •Several consultations have been carried out

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What is Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT)?

Key technologies

Repetition D1 D1 D1 D1 D1 D1 … D1

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2

Power Spectrum Density Boosting 180 KHz

UL

3.75/15KHz

PSM / Enhancement DRX 3

4 Simplified protocol stack (Simplified PHY ,Signaling, etc) for low cost and low power consumption

Large Coverage

NB IoT

20 db+ GPRS

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2 Massive Connections

3 Lower power consumption

Battery life: 10+ years

4 Lower cost

Benefit

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Basement

Meter covered

Extended coverage (+ 20 dB)

Meter covered

Meter NOT covered

Coverage performance

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The benefits of NB-IoT

10 Years

Battery Life

20dB

Coverage Gain

50k Devices/Cell

Carrier-grade

Reliability

Roaming

$5 Module

4G-Like

Security

NB-IoT

Re-use existing

Cellular network

Performance

(licensed frequency)

Standard solution

(economy of scale)

NB-IoT enables the LTE cellular network to offer IoT solutions in a reliable and secure way, reusing existing network asset based on global 3GPP standard

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Where do we are? 3GPP Standardization status

• Standardization began in 2014 with a study to determine the requirements for

massive MTC and to investigate whether proposed radio-access designs could

meet the set of requirements

• This led to the definition of NB-IoT design targets

• In September 2015, a new work item named NarrowBand IoT (NB-IoT) was

approved and started to define the specification for NB-IoT

• In June 2016, NB-IoT is completed 100% as planned

• RAN Core part: 100% (see approved WID update in RP-160933)

– RAN WG1: 100%; RAN WG2: 100%; RAN WG3: 100%; RAN WG4: 100%; RAN4 performance

part: expected to be completed in September (same completion time as eMTC and EC-GSM)

• SA part: 100% (see SA2 chairman report in SP-160283)

• CT part: 100% (see CT chairman report in SP-160444)

Work Item on NB-IoT

First studies on MTC requirements Work Item description Approved

Standard ready

2014 Dec. 2015

Sept. 2015 June 2016

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NB-IoT Core Network

IOT Connectivity platform

Terminals (depending on use case)

Radio Access

Network

Service/

application eSIM

Short term next steps: enlarge the ecosystem

Third parties Service/application

Actions NB-IoT architecture

Certification bodies

Fast implementation of 3GPP standard, as SW upgrade of LTE network

Fast adoption of eSIM

Fast service deployment

Easy integration of third party service/application

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TIM and Huawei signed MoU during MWC2016

http://www.lightreading.com/huawei-video-resource-center/telecom-italia-and-huawei-sign-mou-for-development-of-iot-solutions-for-mobile-networks/v/d-id/721341

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NB-IoT is suitable not only for smart meters… Other possible use cases: • Smart Waste • Smart Light • Smart Green (city parks) • City Environment Quality Mobile Crowdsensing System • Smart Parking (loading/unloading bays) • Asset Tracking • …

xMBB - Extreme Mobile Broadband mMTC - Massive Machine-Type Communication uMTC - Ultra-reliable MTC

Data rate

Number of devices

mMTC uMTC

xMBB

5G services

Latency/Reliability

…it paves the wave towards 5G

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Takeaway

NB-IoT enables the LTE cellular networks to offer IoT solutions in a

reliable and secure way, reusing existing network asset based on global

3GPP standard

NB-IoT is suitable for a subset of IoT use cases (low bandwidth, non

delay sensitive, small packet, deep coverage, low power, low cost)

There are short term market opportunities (e.g. smart metering)

Collective effort (operators, vendors, developers, regulators, …) is

important in order to enlarge the ecosystem

NB-IoT paves the wave towards 5G (mMTC - Massive Machine-Type

Communication)

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