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The Internet of Things
Towards Ubiquitous Connectivity
- S. Willenegger, VP Technology
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The Internet of Things Towards Ubiquitous Connectivity S. - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The Internet of Things Towards Ubiquitous Connectivity S. - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The Internet of Things Towards Ubiquitous Connectivity S. Willenegger, VP Technology IoT Summit, Brussels, June 2010 Mobile Services Are Becoming the Center of Life 2 Enabled by Connectivity Platforms Broadening Platform Capabilities
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Enabled by Connectivity Platforms
- Efficient data transmission
- Low power operation
- Connectivity
- Location capability
- Sensing capability
Broadening Platform Capabilities
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The Internet of Things
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IoT Covers a Lot!
Let’s focus on common enablers
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The Networking of Things
- Attached to a specific device (1980s)
- Serial / Parallel / USB / Bluetooth
- Attached to a specific network (1995s)
- LAN / WLAN
- Attached through the Cloud (2010s)
- VPN / MIP + {LAN / WLAN / WWAN}
From One to Many Attach Points
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Attached Anywhere
- Connectivity service provided by 3rd party
- Global network of inter-connected service providers
- Primary value: connectivity abstraction
- Independent from site infrastructure & access rights
- Potential to unleash the IoT
- Adds another dimension in the ability to use “things”
- New “things” become relevant with ability to connect anywhere
From Vertical to Horizontal Connectivity
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The Road to an IoT Ecosystem
- Device Integration
- Device Certification
- Device Maintenance
- Service Provisioning
- Service Integration
From Logical to Practical Abstraction
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Device Integration
- Environment
- Specific environmental & lifetime requirements prevent full
leveraging of consumer platform scale & offering.
- Connectivity
- Multiplicity of WWAN radio frequency bands
- Multiplicity of local connectivity options
- HW Interface
- General purpose interfaces
- Vertical specific interfaces
- API
- In search of balance between scale & healthy competition &
innovation
- Some challenges eased by relying on modules
In Progress but some parameters impact the ability to scale
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Device Certification
- Framework
- Evolving away from handset centric framework
- Need to move away from test once use once
- Acceptance
- Baseline testing +
- Network Interoperability +
- Operator acceptance +
- Infrastructure acceptance !!!
- Some challenges eased by relying on modules
- Certification remains a challenge even for module providers
Major challenge
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Device Maintenance
- Expected device lifetime is higher
- 2 years for typical consumer device
- 5, 10, 20 years for things!
- Expectation that device software should be updated
- Configuration
- Enhanced software functionality
- Security
- Is the device still “accepted” after software update?
- Modularity & certification
Scratching the surface
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Service Provisioning
- Diverging distribution channels
- Resulting from horizontalization
- Market looking for enhanced models
- The SIM card – Friend or Foe?
- Example: iPad
- “Please go to an xyz shop to activate your 3G SIM card”
- Expecting to be able to change provider during lifetime of device
- But durability is moving the market towards non removable SIM (component)
- Subscription Management
- Aggregators offering global management
- Sponsored connectivity
- Example: Amazon Kindle
- Can this be established generically?
Efficiency vs Flexibility? Can’t we have both?
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Service Integration
- Access & transmission to/from devices (horizontal)
- Identification of devices
- Management of device fleet
- Management of data traffic between things
- Management of device access properties
- Interaction through common APIs
- E.g.: Ongoing ETSI service layer definition
- Use of the device functionality (vertical)
- Common API and meta structures
- Beyond scope of connectivity
- Expected to take place within respective verticals
The Chicken and Egg Challenge!
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What are we doing?
- Embedded Connectivity
- WWAN Chipset & Systems (horizontal)
- Supplying world leading module providers
- Leading industry task force on certification for new devices
- Gobi (vertical – consumer electronics)
- Common HW interface
- Global certification and acceptance
- Enhanced Connection Manager
- Common API
- Sponsored connectivity
- May expand into other verticals
- Wearable Mobile Devices (horizontal)
- Low Power Compact Modules
Efforts to deliver scale & abstraction
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PAGE 15 QUALCOMM CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY
Gobi Now Available > 100 different devices
Extending wireless leadership to all connected devices
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PAGE 16 QUALCOMM CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY
Gobi Anywhere Expansion – Common API
3G/4G Connectivity
The Internet, Wherever You Are
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Gobi Technology:
- Expanding on Qualcomm’s leadership in Connectivity
- Moving across various platforms including CE, Computing, M2M …
- Powering an enhanced user experience
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What are we doing?
- Service platform & management
- nPhase M2M (horizontal)
- Qualcomm, Verizon, Vodafone initiative
- Qualcomm Enterprise Services (vertical - transportation)
- Roots in transportation vertical since 1987
- Evolving towards broader automotive industry
- inGeo (vertical - trackingl)
- Asset Tracking & Monitoring
- People Safety
Efforts to deliver scale & abstraction
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Where are we?
- Cellular data connectivity enabling IoT
- First horizontal in a world of verticals
- The Vision can become reality
- Potential for growth & scale
- Cellular to focus on enabling connectivity abstraction
- Certification, Provisioning, Access service layer
- Common device interfaces in support of integration
- Verticals & their suppliers to focus on
- Integration of wide area connectivity capability
- Communication, Location, Remote sensing & controlling
- Common service platforms & API
IoT is in the early 90s of cellular voice communication
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