Cellular Internet of Things for Practitioners

Abstract

In today’s Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, Low-power Wide-area (LPWA) communication technologies play a central role in connecting the smart objects to the Internet due to their low complexity, low power consumption, wide coverage and high capacity. Cellular IoT technologies such as LTE-M and NB-IoT bring significant value for LPWA use cases over non-cellular communications due to their ubiquitous connectivity, technology maturity, scalability, reliability and security. This book, first describes the simplified architecture of an IoT network from the core functional perspective, then presents step-by-step procedures to establish a connection between the IoT device and platform. It practically shows how to connect a cellular IoT module to the Microsoft Azure IoT Hub using the LTE-M technology.