TS.34 v14.0 IoT Device Connection Efficiency Guidelines

In IoT scenarios IoT Device firmware and software play a significant part in determining the overall performance and behaviour of the IoT Service on the mobile network. With no human intervention to fall back upon, the mechanisms that manage recovery from IoT Service failure need to be built into IoT Devices.

The objective of this document is to specify requirements for efficient use of mobile network connectivity by IoT devices.

With the exception of section 9, the requirements and solutions captured in this document for efficient use of 3GPP mobile networks are for use by the current generation of IoT Devices which do not necessarily support comparable 3GPP network efficiency features or are connecting to networks that do not support the necessary 3GPP network efficiency features. In section 9 we list the 3GPP feature that may be deployed within mobile networks and IoT Devices making them more efficient