1. Opportunities & Challenges
IoT in 5G
Opportunities & Challenges
Ming Lei
Vice Chair
Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF)
5G Huddle
Copenhagen, Denmark
October, 2015

2. What’s exciting? Size of opportunity
Clues from Internet and mobile communications
1995 vs. 2015
Online population: 35 million (1995) vs. 2.8 billion (2015)
Mobile phone users: 80 million (1995) vs. 5.2 billion (2015)
Unknown territory
Expose weakness of tech industry
Profound change to the landscape
Drive disruptive new business

3. IoT vs. M2M IoT Customer experience Software Hardware M2M
Embedded software

4. Do we have blind spots in our vision?
IoT is simple?
Can we go solo?
Who’s the customer?
Software (APPs): barrier of entry is low
Open-source software
Powerful PC
Regulatory issues …
Hardware: barrier of entry is high
Sensing, processing, execution, connectivity
RF, antenna, …
Standardization, cell towers, cell planning, …

5. Challenges for cellular operators
Cellular technology
Standardization, cell towers, cell planning, …
More complicated than WiFi, bluetooth …
Which IoT should be brought into cellular network?
Business models
More than smart phones, data plans, …
Who’s the customer?

6. Thank you!