IEEE IoT Standards: Orange And Verizon Leading IoT - IoT Innovation Episode 25
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On today's IoT Innovation episode, host Jeff Mucci, recaps top IoT industry news, while leading an IoT standards discussion with IEEE IoT P2314 working group chair, Oleg Logvinov.
Top IoT news stories include:
● Verizon opened its network to IoT connected devices using a standard called Cat-1 LTE that limits upload speeds to 10 Mbps, lowers the modem costs, and extends battery life.
● Orange leading IoT charge in Europe with several recent announcements including IoT LTE GSM trial with Ericsson with goal of reducing IoT complexity and cost of deploying, while extending battery life. Orange also announced that they will be deploying a low power long range LoRa network in 17 French urban areas and gradually rolled out nationally while expanding Datavenue, their IoT platform, has been expanded to include additional Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT) services aimed at businesses. Finally, Orange released an IoT tool kit for connected object designers to prototype LoRa technology-based services
● Markets and Research released two reports claiming that global IOT Energy Market will grow from $7b to $22b by 2020 and that IoT healthcare market will be worth $163.24 billion by 2020.
● Using kickstarter crowdfunding, Imagination Technologies launched a Dev Kit For IoT called Creator Ci40 and claims that it is "The ultimateIoT-in-a-box dev kit". As of December 2, they have 228 backers and have raised $27,000 of $30,000 target. Creator Ci40 includes all the hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure needed to quickly build a wireless IoT system
Mucci closed the show with an interview with Oleg Logvinov who is Chair of the IEEE P2413™ working group, IEEE Internet Initiative. He is also director, special assignments, for STMicroelectronics’ Industrial and Power Conversion Division.