Orange And Ericsson Announce IoT LTE GSM Trial
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David Hammerwall, Strategic Product Manager in Ericsson's Radio group, shared his insights with Jeff Mucci, RCR Wireless News, about Orange and Ericsson's launch of the world's first IoT over GSM and LTE field trial.
The trial, which will be conducted in France, using 900 Mhz spectrum band, aims to improve indoor coverage, reduce IoT device cost and
extend battery life.
For use in low-rate IoT applications, the goal is to demonstrate a 20db gain for device and sensor reachability, principally in challenging in-building applications such as meter reading or other infrastructure monitoring.
As part of the trial, Sequans' chips were selected for the first LTE IoT half duplex trial using low cost, low-complexity devices with one antenna (instead of two) resulting in a 60% cost reduction over traditional LTE Cat 4 devices.
Using Sequans single mode LTE chipset, Ericsson and Orange also plan to demonstrate extended battery life for up to 10 years by utilizing a power saving technology that is supported by Ericsson's Evolved Packet Core (EPC)
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