Chapter 1: Introduction to IoT Connectivity
Chapter Goal: This chapter provides an overview of key IoT use cases and key connectivity elements of IoT solutions. The reader will get an understanding of the breadth of the IoT landscape.
• Purpose of this book
• Background and Terminology
• Key IoT use cases
o Smart cities
o Asset tracking
o Smart factories
o Industrial
o Transportation
o Digital surveillance systems
o Retail
o Medical
o Indoor location
• End-to-end IoT building blocks
o Things/devices/sensors
o Edge/Gateway/Fog
o Cloud
• IoT Stakeholders/Value Chain
o Chip Vendors
o Module Vendors
o System Integrators
o ODMs
o ISVs
o End Customers
Chapter 2: Considerations in choosing a connectivity technology
Chapter Goals: This chapter highlights the fragmentation of connectivity standards and solutions and the challenge in navigating the many standards and technologies and also discusses the tradeoffs between different wireless technologies and network topologies. Also, this chapter provides the motivation for using wireless technologies in IoT products as well as challenges.
• Compute and connect are integral functions that are fully integrated in single SoC-for lower cost and low power solutions
• Benefits of wireless
• Seamless wireless connectivity for mobility applications
• Remote Commissioning, ease of deployment, OTA update, device identification
• Challenges of Wireless Connectivity
• Fragmentation of the IoT Ecosystem
o Discussion of IoT Framework Open Connectivity Foundation etc.
o Interoperability (open standards)
• Coexistence and interference
• Wireless security is vital
• Certification (Industry, regulatory, operator)
o Certified labs
• Antenna design challenges
• Considerations in choosing a connectivity technology
o Energy/power/cost tradeoffs
o Selection of network architectures and topologies
o Wireless standards and alignment to use cases-how to choose the right wireless protocol for the job
o Selection criteria-range, data rate, power, security, latency, capacity, etc.
• Wireless Standard Bodies
Subchapter Goal: Overview of Connectivity standards including 15.4, ZigBee, Thread, 6LoWPAN, wi-fi, BT, LTE, 5G etc. and which is appropriate for each use case; include cost considerations
o WiFi Alliance
o BT SIG
o ZigBee Alliance
o Thread Group
o Dot dot
o Z-Wave
o 3GPP (ITU-T)
Chapter Goals: The following chapters (3 to 10) provide a deep dive on each connectivity technology and considerations on selecting it for the IoT use cases
Chapter 3: Wi-Fi
• Wi-Fi mesh
• WiFi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
• WiFi 6
Chapter 4: Bluetooth
• BLE
• BT mesh
• BT direction finding
• BT beacons
Chapter 5: 802.15.4 (unlicensed)
• ZigBee
• Thread
Chapter 6: LPWAN
• Lora
• SigFox
Chapter 7: Cellular Technologies
• NB IoT
• 3G
• 4G LTE
• CBRS (Private LTE) / OnGo
Chapter 8: 5G
• eMBB
• mMTC
• urLLC
• 5G TSN
Chapter 9: Ethernet
• TSN
• Industrial Ethernet Technologies
Chapter 10: GNSS
Chapter 11: IoT Connectivity Frameworks and Stac