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Presentation Title: M2M & IP revolution in radio

Speaker: Ashwin Dinkar

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Today: M2M = Man to Man

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Presentation Title (the long version)

“M2M communications and the IP revolution in radio. A marriage made in the cloud with

down-to-earth benefits.”

1. M2M communications

2. IP in radio

3. The “IP cloud”

4. Benefits

• Data reporting

– Exceptions

– Status

– Measurements

• Control

M2M communications

• Reduce site visits

• Proactive & efficient maintenance

• Regulation

• Green technology

• Service levels

M2M drivers

Mobile Radio Networks

• Network Requirements;

– Coverage (100% of operational requirement)

– Reliability

– Resilience

– Security

– Predictable cost of ownership

– Voice communications

– Data communications

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PMR

IP in Radio

• The PMR community was scared to use IP

– It’s the internet

– It’s not safe

– It’s not reliable

– Hackers/Virus Attacks

What did we find back then?

Despite the internet, IP backbones weren’t commonplace in PMR

4 wire leased lines

Microwave

Backbones as legacy as radio systems

What did we find back then?

But Backbone technologies were going IP Organisations wanted to converge backbones

. it was changing . .

It wasn’t about the internet

• Away from the backbone, IP allowed us to;

– Connect PMR equipment together (nothing new!)

– Create a distributed/resilient architecture

– Use standard protocols/applications e.g. TCP/FTP

Larger networks

Significant cost reductions for fully resilient systems Enhanced remote support capabilities (1st, 2nd, 3rd line) A shared backbone for PMR & other systems

• Can we connect sites with cheap ADSL?

• Can we use public MPLS services?

• Suddenly, it’s okay to be on the internet!!

Inside the cloud

• Do you need to know what’s in the cloud?

• You need to be aware of the system backbone requirements – Bandwidth

– Unicast/multicast

– Latency/Jitter

• Simoco has been deploying PMR over IP for 8 years

• DMR is fully built on IP principles

M2M & Cellular

• Cellular is dominant in the M2M space, obviously…

– publically available in 90% of the world

– 20+ billion texts sent every day

– 3G = 200+kbps

– 4G = 10’s mbps

So what are the benefits of M2M over radio?

Benefits of M2M over Radio

• Coverage

Benefits of M2M over Radio

• Reliability

• Resilience

• Security (Private Mobile Radio)

• Predictable cost of ownership

• Voice communications

• Data communications

– Status, short data, packet data

Fallback

Power backup

Generators

Batteries

Network design

Data Considerations

• Data rate

• Data capacity

• Data frequency

• Acknowledgements – where?

• Voice/data contention

• Latency

M2M over Radio & IP

Mixed Solutions

Summary

• M2M is huge and growing (2.1bn devices by 2021)

• Analyze the data requirement & choose the most suited solution(s)

• Coverage & capability

– Sweat the asset

– Advantages of PMR for data

• Open Standards

The Future: M2M = Machine to Machine

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Questions

Thank you

Ashwin Dinkar

www.simocogroup.com

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