5G IoT Strategy Group
The 5G IoT Strategy Group evolves from the previous GSMA Mobile IoT Forum and GSMA Tech Enablers Group.
The Group is a limited membership group to ensure it is nimble to deliver for the needs of all members. The aim of the Strategy Group is to promote IoT technology and capabilities and accelerate the adoption of 5G IoT solutions.
This Group works across horizontal enablers and looks for attributes like roaming and energy efficiency that will help to meet the needs of industry verticals, such as utilities, manufacturing, etc. Action Groups will be created by the Strategy Group to work on these attributes that typically operate for around 6 months before publicly disseminating this information. Members of the 5G IoT Forum can participate in these activities as well as suggest Action Groups.
Action groups examples
- Coverage: studies and tracks the Mobile IoT networks launches through Mobile IoT Coverage Map
- Energy efficiency: as some IoT business cases depend on up to 10 years of device battery life. This Action group studies and quantifies energy performance in IoT from end to end.
- Roaming: agrees key parameters for roaming with NB-IoT and LTE-M devices that will help customers and service providers.
- 2G/3G shutdown: studies the obstacles for network shutdown and the migration to Mobile IoT and Massive IoT Technologies