apidays LIVE Australia - Building Business Ecosystems
Low Power, High Performance, Easy Access IoT Networks
Michelle Howie, Developer Advocate at TelstraDev
10. Scale up and down for a diverse range of use cases.
the IoT network that meets your needs.
High bandwidth - scaling up performance and mobility Cellular LPWAN - scaling down complexity, power and speed
4G Cat 1 LTE-M NB-IoT Satellite
Telstra Air®
and
Bluetooth
nbn™ /
Telstra Fixed
5G
Mobile network technologies Complementary technologies
Critical
security
Autonomous
vehicles
Remote
critical
robotics
Video
security
Connected
Home
Asset
tracking
Smart
venues
Water and
gas metering
Agricultural
monitoring
Asset
tracking
Remote
healthcare
Mobiles Telematics Smart
cities
Smart
buildings
Environmental
monitoring
Industrial
sensors
Telematics Smart
buildings
Home
appliances
Wearables
12. API value in IoT @ scale
• BYO dashboard
• BYO devices
• We provide YOUR data via APIs
13. Network Exposure APIs
“Exposure – and service exposure in particular – will
be critical to the creation of the programmable
networks that businesses need to communicate
efficiently with Internet of Things (IoT) devices,
handle edge loads and pursue the myriad of new
commercial opportunities in the 5G world.” –
Ericsson
Machine Type Comms: NIDD, Event Monitoring,
QoS
It’s great to be here, at Australia APIDays going virtual this year! I’m presenting to you from Adelaide, on Kaurna land
Over the next 20mins I’ll be diving into the Internet of Things from a networks engineer lens. This session is for anyone and everyone with an interest in IoT, whether you’re an expert or hearing about it for the first time.
Ask questions at any time in the chat feature, I have my colleague Andrew here who will help monitor that. and we’ll have Q&A at the end.
Also welcome you to jump on twitter and follow telstradev and me michelle2minhye so we can stay connected
Because we are virtual, I want to get a sense of who is in the audience. Let’s start by posting in the chat where you are dialling in from today, and what your interest is in the internet of things. As a business leader, as a developer, as a curious citizen,
I’m going to give a summary of the entire presentation in just this slide, if you’re short on time
The internet of things, connecting BILLIONS of devices to the network, promises a tsunami of data across all industry verticals. But not all IoT networks are created equal. If you have low power requirements (i.e low battery and low cost) – you’ll need LPWAN like NBIoT, LTE-M. for high perf, mission critical You’ll need 5G. And to easier access, control and manage the data insights from your iot ecosystem, we’ll use secure APIs. That’s it, if you wan’t to know more let’s get into it!
If you saw my presentation yesterday on Communication APIs you might already know me, hello welcome back
Spreading the good word about technology. Especially virtual and augmented reality, robotics, smart cities, internet of things, connected transport
Recently devrel
B4 that 5G on GC
I see tech as the enabler to many of the world’s biggest challenges, and connectivity and networks are the enabler for those technologies which is why I am with Telstra.
Billions of physical devices connected to the internet. There are already more IoT devices than people in the world, set to increase five fold in the next 5 years.
IoT is about connecting data, analysing, then automating systems to solve problems.
It makes sense to implement IoT technology where the activity is too Dull, Dirty, Dangerous or Distant for human workers
There’s lots of reasons why you WOULDN’T want to connect something to the internet, but some more reasons that u would is to: save energy, time, money, be safe and more entertaining.
This will impact us all on an individual level, whether it’s reducing our electricity bill with automatic lights that dim when no one is in the room, or alerting you when your plants need watering, but on an industrial level, the resources that could be saved, the lives that could be saved, are very exciting.
Here’s a fun example of when iot is paired with contextual data. This shopper could be wearing AR glasses that change the advertisements depending on their demographic. Scary stuff.
But how about in footy, we already have the telstratracker that lets us crazy fans know every detail about our favourite players, and make bets on who ran the most km in the season. Cool for the coaches too, who don’t have to be engineers to make sense of that data.
Iot is devices + network + platform. The devices can be anything. a Virtual Reality headset, playing GB/day immersive education experiences, or the cleaning robot sending a few MB every week, or a water meter sending a few KB every month. You need a different mobile network for each.
What do you need to be able to connect to the internet? A network. You need signal from Wi-Fi or 4G, or 5G, or maybe Bluetooth
And what can you do with that information from the IoT sensors? Anything! You can write a program that makes sense of it.
IoT can be Im going to go through 2 example use cases, and dive into the network technology that will enable them
One of the most impactful examples I’ve seen in the IoT deployment space lately is with a customer who faces significant weather related delays in their supply chain.
When travelling from the mines, in the middle of Australia, to the ports where their precious loads are dropped off, they have to travel 1000s of km by train
When the tracks are too hot, in the order of 60 degrees, the tracks start to warp, and you have to drive slower to stay safer. So they guess, based of nearby weather forecasts, what conditions will cause the tracks to pass the safe threshold.
But Every 10kmph you cut of in speed, looses potentially hours of time, and the cost of that delay adds up.
What if we could tell you with certainty, not the ambient temperature of the nearest weather station (which could be 100km away), how hot the TRACK actually is?
We could reduce the risk of undershooting and missing delivery deadlines, or overshooting and derailing.
With just a few well places temperature sensors and a smart dashboard in the driver’s seat.
Where IoT is making the biggest difference, is in the hard to reach areas.
POWER: You need low power consumption, because you don’t want to go out in the bush, to your 1000s of sensors every few days to charge the battery
COST: You need low cost, because the scale is in the thousands
COVERAGE: And you need high geographical coverage and penetration, because you’re in areas where there is no 3G, let alone 5G. You’re willing to sacrifice the fancy screen and complex features
The exciting thing about low power wide area iot, is the tradeoff of having low data requirements means low power use and longer distances. 4million sq km. Devices can connect 120km away from the nearest tower on NB IoT networks, great for rural and regional but also urban environments too where you want minimal maintenance disruptions.
we have a device 5m down a concrete pit in the CBD of Melbourne receiving telemetry data (temp).. With longer battery life, and cellular connectivity, its rapid deployment and you can set and forget! Massive IoT.
Telstra of course focuses on the cellular IoT networks, NBIoT (stationary, small, infrequent), CatM1 (mobile, multiple data sets)
Which have incredible device level benefits – battery, remote data extraction, FOTA, in built certs low overheads = cheaper devices. (Telstra Whitepaper out now)
I’m sure you can think of uses for drones. Amazon released last week they are starting drone delivery, Uber Air we are working with to get transport on demand in the air, and Telstra uses drones a lot in emergency services (bushfires) and in surf rescue or spark spotting
These drones are packed full of IoT sensors and actuators, to save lives
LATENCY: The mission critical nature of the drone deployments, means that latency, or the time it takes for data to be sent and received, must be low, i.e fast to avoid objects, course correct, respond in near real time
DATA:The drones need to be light, so all the processing of any UHD video footage needs to be done remotely, ideally in a nearby edge compute, so high bandwidth, or high data rates are needed to move all that video quickly, with high resolution
Being up so high, moving so fast, drones actually need ULTRA HD, 4k and 8k
CONGESTED:And all this is happening in urban areas, where connected cars, smart buildings, and civilian wearables are sharing the same mobile towers
Go on, post in the chat, what does the G stand for in 5G?
5G, Is the 5th generation of mobile connectivity standards, and the first to be born in the era of IoT.
1G was about calling. It enabled 2 million Australians to make phone calls.
2G brought voice and SMS. As the population, communication frequency and traffic grew over time, 2G overcame network congestion and security concerns. SMS was a gimmick at first.
3G was the foundation of mobile broadband. News on your phone, facebook
4G evolved mobile video. The network enabled high volumes of data content. It enabled richer content, offered significantly faster speeds, lower latency and reduced network congestion
By now, everyone has a phone
The road to 5G is long and winding, full of dependencies. See the notes on this slide.
To get to the sub ms latency and double digit Gbps downloads over wireless 5G, the ecosystem needs, more frequency, next gen mobile devices & non-standalone packet core
Key thing to think about for 5G is that it is an evolution, not a revolution.
5G will build upon and be integrated with existing 4G technology and especially in the early years of 5G the 4G network coverage and performance will remain an important part of the overall customer experience even with 5G devices
Let’s go through the evolution of mobile networks and the advantage with 5G
1G was about calling. It enabled 2 million Australians to make phone calls.
2G brought voice and SMS. As the population, communication frequency and traffic grew over time, 2G overcame network congestion and security concerns. SMS was a gimmick at first.
3G was the foundation of mobile broadband. News on your phone, facebook
4G evolved mobile video. The network enabled high volumes of data content. It enabled richer content, offered significantly faster speeds, lower latency and reduced network congestion
By now, everyone has a phone
The road to 5G is long and winding, full of dependencies. See the notes on this slide.
To get to the sub ms latency and double digit Gbps downloads over wireless 5G, the ecosystem needs, more frequency, next gen mobile devices & non-standalone packet core
Key thing to think about for 5G is that it is an evolution, not a revolution.
5G will build upon and be integrated with existing 4G technology and especially in the early years of 5G the 4G network coverage and performance will remain an important part of the overall customer experience even with 5G devices
Lower Latency will bring faster data transfers, enabling mission critical applications closer to real time. This is critical when putting our lives in the hands of telemedicine or driverless cars.
Higher Bandwidth allows richer, more immersive experiences. Think augmented reality, 360 video, with no buffering
And capacity means millions more connected device per sq km that enable automation and big data analytics.
Some examples here. They will be unlocked as the network evolution progresses (remember, frequency bands, stand-alone core, devices)
5G network technology will allow more connected devices per square km than ever before. That Scale of connectivity is what is going to enable the full realisation of the Internet of Things.
High bandwidth, low latency IoT devices on 5G allow you to scale UP the performance and mobility of a use case, for example Autonomous vehicles or mission critical drones and robotics. And massive IoT use cases.
5G removes bottlenecks in speed, bandwidth and Capacity on wireless mobile connections. But those bottlenecks may still exist in other parts of your end to end tech ecosystem. That’s why you need to optmise your current digital systems with cloud compute, edge processing, Artificial Intelligence and next gen hardware to be able to capitalise on the capabilities of 5G. They are big topics, and for another day.
With edge compute, powered by APIs, we can enable the next wave of use cases and value creation.
I watched the nsw health pathology talk yesterday, they introduced digital proximity: the idea that even if you are standing next to each other in a connected ambulance, or in a popup clinic, serving patients on your ipad, your digital proximity is where your servers is stored, where your data is being processed. Set up your servers on a cloud in Singapore, well you might as well be that far away. So consider the digital proximity of your deployments, when you are hosting on prem, i.e in the basement of the hospital, any work in the hospital will be close digital proximity, but as soon as you go offsite, even if you are going over 5G you need to consider decentralised cloud and edge compute to be able to make the most of the high speeds and low latency.
Are you ready for the future?
Adapting to digital disruption, ensuring smart growth and making a difference with technology requires considered planning by both IT and business leaders.
Technology is taking us into a world of rapid change, constant innovation and competition. And it is a time of enormous opportunity.
So we touched on both ends of the spectrum, low frequency low complexity LPWAN networks like NB-IoT and LTE-M, And the blistering speeds and scale of 5G scaling up performance.
Telstra has a range of network technologies, each with their own suitability.
For the iot industry to grow in Australia it will require a vibrant IoT ecosystem of developers driving to challenge and change the face of innovation.
As these technologies become cheaper, and easier to develop with, we’ll see that IoT innovations don’t require an engineering degree. They require creativity and critical problem solving
5G isn’t the answer to everything. Cellular connectivity has the benefits of being standardised and widely available, but wifi and Bluetooth have their place too for cheaper less critical devices
And just to confuse you, same as how NBIOT and LTEM ar 4G technologies, they are now officially standardised to be 5G technologies in the future too. It gives a longer shelf life to these networks of course as 5G will bea round for a long time! you can make Longevity and long term investments with iot.
They will evolve with 5G, not be replaced by it. So when you hear cool things like network slicing, software defined networks, network optimisation, iot is going on that road to 5G too
We heard about it in yesterday’s keynote with mike, that iot networks are there to draw the insights from. So how do u access that data securely? How to u actuate back to the devices securely?
APIs of course!
Jen is Location of things customer
Jen has lots of devices to track and measure
She Bought some Track & Monitor devices too
Needs to add those assets’ info to her existing dashboard. NOT dealing with a new platform.
We expose her own data through secure APIs
in areas such as the Internet of Things, AR/VR, Industry 4.0 and the automotive sector, the high performance requirements of the network is a deal breaker. Operators exposing their core services via APIs will play a key role in creating those solutions. i’ve seen some really cool stuff from Ericsson in dynamic network slicing already across 4G and 5G cores.
In Cellular IoT networks, Service Capability Exposure Function (SCEF) can securely expose the services and capabilities of 3GPP network interfaces via standardized API for managing devices. This includes supports for Non-IP Data Delivery (NIDD) - Lightweight m2m protocol for less overheads, Monitoring Event (MONTE) – connection status, and enhanced features like QoS
TelstraDev is our developer centre that unlocks Telstra’s core products and services via APIs, getting them in the hands of developers as RAW ingredients.
We’ve got end to end IoT solutions in our marketplace with the devices, the network connectivity, the API access and dashboards to make sense of it all.
The community Is there too,
And what that means for you? You can get started and test with the raw ingredients from our portal, prototype cheaply and quickly, but when you’re ready you can scale to enterprise level.
We’ve got a small range of APIs that is constantly growing. For example we’ve realised lots of devs don’t want iot devices if it can get the data efficiently, so we have internet of things data extraction (like SIM card usage, location, a brand new one for smart spaces building insights),
Try some of our tutorials, but I don’t know if you’ll have as much fun as me
Any questions?
If you want to stay part of the conversation, the join our meetup group: ausiot (formally melbiot)
See you right now in the roundtable with IBM where developersteve and I chat about the nitty gritty stuff with developing with iot!