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Vodafone brings Narrowband IoT to 13 cities
Vodafone plans to put a "machine network" into operation in 13 German cities by the end of 2018.
Machines can send small data packets via the Narrowband IoT mobile communications standard. Vodafone has now activated the machine network in Düsseldorf. The expansion of Narrowband IoT is also currently beginning in Berlin. The machine network should be up and running here at the beginning of January. By the end of the financial year, the following German cities should be connected to the machine network:
- Essen,
- Karlsruhe,
- Nuremberg,
- Hamburg,
- Munich,
- Bremen,
- Frankfurt,
- Dortmund,
- Cologne,
- Bonn,
- Stuttgart.
The Germany-wide expansion is now being driven forward on LTE 800 frequencies. Together with partners, Vodafone is also launching its first products on the network. DHL, Deutsche Bahn, Diehl Metering, Techem and Panasonic, among others, are working on solutions that will transmit in the machine network. End customers will then be able to benefit from this on a daily basis, for example in supermarkets, at train stations and on the roads.
Where mobile communications can't go otherwise
The machine network is an optimized version of LTE. It even transmits data in places where mobile communications would otherwise be difficult to reach: behind thick house walls and underground. Extreme battery life of the narrowband IoT sensors of up to ten years enables data transmission even without an external power supply. Back in February, Vodafone opened the IoT Future Lab in Düsseldorf - Germany's first research laboratory specifically for applications in the machine network. Since then, the Düsseldorf-based telecommunications group has been working here with partners along the entire value chain on solutions for the Internet of Things. New applications are tested and further developed under everyday conditions. The range of application examples is wide: in pilot projects, the partners have jointly developed, for example, a wall that can smell graffiti sprayers, gas cylinders that draw attention to themselves when they need to be filled and changing room lockers that send out an alarm if they are permanently blocked.
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