Tele2 NB-IoT

Main articles:

• What is the Internet of Things (IoT)
• NB-IoT Low-Power and Wide-Area, LPWAN

2022: Sales of Smart Electricity Solutions NB-IoT

As it became known on January 21, 2022, large mobile operators in Russia began selling smart electric meters. A new business can bring telecommunications companies tens of billions of rubles. More details here.

2020: Comprehensive Platform Upgrade for Ericsson Cloud Backbone IoT

On December 2, 2020, Tele2 announced that it had carried out a comprehensive upgrade of the platform for the Internet of Things (IoT) based on the Ericsson cloud backbone. This will allow you to create dedicated network segments for NB-IoT with a minimum additional load on the commercial network, simultaneously connect 1 million IoT devices and offer updated functionality to corporate users.

Tele2 and Ericsson Update Enterprise IoT Platform

According to the company, among the key requirements for NB-IoT are the long-term stability of the solution, the provision of services at the federal level, the increase in the life cycle of devices, economically the effective connection of measuring devices through optimization energy consumption and the optimal organization of channels. communications

During the modernization project, Tele2 and Ericsson focused on creating a dedicated turnkey network segment that ensures a minimum dependence of the NB-IoT layer on the existing network. This autonomy helps to avoid loading commercial nodes of the home network and to more flexibly configure the service component for users. The updated platform will allow you to provide services in Non-IP Data Delivery (NIDD) mode, that is, transfer data through the signaling channels of the network without allocating separate IP addresses and avoid additional load on the network.

The upgraded solution can support the simultaneous operation of 1 million IoT connections and quickly scale capacity. In addition, the project will optimize the functionality for B2B users - to provide additional improvement of charging scenarios, as well as provide APIs (Application Programming Interface) for integration with enterprise information systems.

With geographically distributed cloud resources, the upgraded platform provides additional reliability and flexible automatic network scaling for changing IoT workloads. Tele2 also received tools for traffic visualization and analysis (CNOM, Core Network Operation Manager).

As a result of the development of the solution, it is possible to achieve the minimum possible delay in data transfer due to the functionality of separation of traffic management and processing applications (CUPS, Control and User Plane Separation) of the Edge Computing architecture and perform the necessary calculations not only within the data center of mobile operators, but also within the enterprise. This experience can be used when deploying IoT technologies to a 5G network .

Together with Ericsson, we have already implemented pilot projects on process automation based on NB-IoT technology in the fields, in environmental HOUSING AND PUBLIC UTILITIES industries monitoring. Technical upgrades have made the IoT platform more scalable and adaptive to user needs. said Alexey Telkov, technical director of Tele2

Internet of Things technologies play an important role in automating all industries - business opportunities and services are emerging that improve the quality of life of each person and society as a whole. said Alexey Turchin, vice president of the digital services department of Ericsson in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

The use of NB-IoT technologies for housing and communal services automation will save energy retail organizations from the need to take and adjust meter readings, and private users from the obligation to transmit instrument readings monthly. The platform can be used in industrial enterprises. So, Tele2 tests at the Kirovsky plant in St. Petersburg proved that the technology allows you to simultaneously connect measuring sensors to the monitoring center and automate the remote transmission of readings. Similar cases are implemented in the fields of mining and processing, environmental monitoring of water and the atmosphere, and even at gas station networks to take into account fuel consumption.

2019: LTE-450 Commercial Network NB-IoT Testing

On November 18, 2019, Tele2 announced that it had tested the NB-IoT standard on a commercial LTE network in the 450 MHz band (LTE-450) in Moscow. The tests used SIMCom Wireless Solutions wireless devices based on MediaTek MT2625 chipsets. The cooperation of companies will accelerate the spread of the NB-IoT standard and lay the foundation for the mass connection of Internet of Things devices based on 5G networks in the future.

According to the company, testing of NB-IoT devices in the 450 MHz range took place on the commercial LTE Tele2 network in Moscow, operating according to the 3GPP Release 14 standard with support for the Cat-NB2 device category. Deploying NB-IoT at 450 MHz LTE provides the largest LTE network coverage radius by a single base station (up to 20 km). This makes it possible to significantly reduce the cost of covering territories. The advantages of the range are suitable for implementing a wide variety of IoT use cases, especially in an urban environment with complex architectural features or, on the contrary, in rural areas.

The wireless SIMCom IoT-modules on the basis of chipsets of MediaTek MT2625 supporting the 3GPP Release 14 standard (Cat-NB2) were involved in tests on LTE-450 network. The Cat-NB2 category provides a number of improvements over the first generation of NB-IoT, including increased data rates and additional features for mobility and location. For tests, Tele2 partners have proposed energy-efficient and cost-effective IoT devices.

NB-IoT is a communication standard on the basis of which cellular operators deploy networks for transmitting data from numerous devices. The standard is focused on autonomous devices (meters, sensors, etc.) for the Internet of Things and M2M. Areas of application NB-IoT can be smart parking, trackers, alarm and smart medicine systems, industrial and agricultural scenarios.

One of the advantages of the standard is low power consumption, which is ensured by transmitting data only at predetermined time intervals. This allows stand-alone sensors to NB-IoT run for up to 10 years or more without replacing the battery. The technology is easy to operate: the use of a cellular operator network allows you to quickly start metering points.

The spread of NB-IoT technology will ensure mass connectivity and cost-effective operation of devices. According to Ericsson, by 2024 the number of IoT connections in the world will reach 22 billion, with an average annual growth rate of 17%. said Dmitry Kurilov, Director of Development and Implementation of the LTE-450 project

As of November 2019, we are working with Tele2 and SIMcom Wireless Solutions to implement NB-IoT in the 450 MHz band. Our primary goal is to take advantage of the 450MHz band to provide affordable and energy-efficient solutions for advanced radio coverage, which will allow devices to operate for a long time without replacing the power supply in places difficult to access for the cellular signal. The integrated architecture of the chipset MediaTek combines a modem NB-IoT and a radio part with support for the 450 MHz band and other standard 3GPP bands, which simplifies the tasks of developing modules for our partners. told Pascal Lemasson, vice president of corporate sales and business development in Europe MediaTek

Mediatek is our key partner and this collaboration has enabled us to market Multi-Band NB-IoT a 450 MHz LTE-enabled solution. The product is designed for applications that require low latency and low throughput data transmission in various radio wave propagation conditions. told by Liu June, EMEA SIMCom Wireless Solutions Sales Director