{"id":9221,"date":"2016-05-11T11:51:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T10:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/technologies\/internet-of-things\/?page_id=9221"},"modified":"2025-05-20T10:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:30:17","slug":"narrow-band-internet-of-things-nb-iot","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/technologies\/internet-of-things\/narrow-band-internet-of-things-nb-iot\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrowband \u2013 Internet of Things (NB-IoT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NarrowBand-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is a standards-based low power wide area (LPWA) technology developed to enable a wide range of new IoT devices and services. NB-IoT significantly improves the power consumption of user devices, system capacity and spectrum efficiency, especially in deep coverage. Battery life of more than 10 years can be supported for a wide range of use cases.<\/p>\n<p>New physical layer signals and channels are designed to meet the demanding requirement of extended coverage \u2013 rural and deep indoors &#8211; and ultra-low device complexity. Initial cost of the NB-IoT modules is expected to be comparable to GSM\/GPRS. The underlying technology is however much simpler than today\u2019s GSM\/GPRS and its cost is expected to decrease rapidly as demand increases.<\/p>\n<p>Supported by all major mobile equipment, chipset and module manufacturers, NB-IoT can co-exist with 2G, 3G, and 4G mobile networks. It also benefits from all the security and privacy features of mobile networks, such as support for user identity confidentiality, entity authentication, confidentiality, data integrity, and mobile equipment identification. The first NB-IoT commercial launches have been completed and global roll out is expected for 2017\/18.<\/p>\n<span class=\"shortcode_button_wrapper\"><a class=\"shortcode_button gsmacolor_red size_medium\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/technologies\/internet-of-things\/gsma_resources\/nbiot-logo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Download the NB-IoT Logo<\/a><\/span>\n<h2>IoT Forum<\/h2>\n<p>The <strong>IoT Forum<\/strong>\u00a0is to provide all industry and wider ecosystem stakeholders with market representation to accelerate the wide-spread adoption of 3GPP-standard 5G technologies including\u00a0<strong>Mobile IoT (LPWA)<\/strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/technologies\/internet-of-things\/long-term-evolution-machine-type-communication-lte-mtc-cat-m1\/\"><strong>LTE-M<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/technologies\/internet-of-things\/narrow-band-internet-of-things-nb-iot\/\"><strong>NB-IoT<\/strong><\/a> technologies and evolve to Massive IoT. In the Forum we will discuss issues facing the IoT Industry and make proposals to the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/technologies\/internet-of-things\/5g-iot-strategy-group\/\">\u00a0IoT Strategy Group<\/a><\/strong>. Members are encouraged to participate in the Action Groups. The work of the Action groups will be disseminated to the Forum and members encouraged to adopt the work. 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