Huawei NB-IoT Solution Receives GSMA's "Best IoT Innovation for Mobile Networks" Award

Huawei NB-IoT Solution Receives GSMA's "Best IoT Innovation for Mobile Networks" Award

[Shanghai, China, June 28, 2017] Witnessed by various experts from global telecommunications industry and media press, Huawei NB-IoT solution honorably received the "Best IoT Innovation for Mobile Networks" award issued by GSMA at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai 2017.

Jiang Wangcheng, President of Huawei IoT Solution, receiving "Best IoT Innovation for Mobile Networks" award at MWC 2017

GSMA functions to connect participants throughout the worldwide mobile communications ecosystem, including almost 800 operators and over 300 enterprises. The association lays significant emphasis on addressing common concerns to best serve the interests of global mobile operators, imposing great influence in the industry. GSMA's "Best IoT Innovation for Mobile Networks" award is recognition to identify and reward Internet of Things (IoT) products, solutions, services, and new business models to highlight innovative breakthroughs based on the new technological development and standards of mobile networks. As one of the most comprehensive NB-IoT solutions, Huawei's industry-renowned NB-IoT solution receives this significant compliment from the industry for its outstanding achievements in technological innovation, industry research, and applied practices.

Huawei's NB-IoT solution comprises of NB-IoT RAN, EPC, device management chips, OceanConnect (a cloud platform for IoT management), and OpenLabs that help related enterprises develop IoT services and applications. The ultimate goal of the Huawei NB-IoT solution is to jointly build a better connected IoT world with operators and partners from a diverse range of vertical industries. As a matter of fact, Huawei is the first to launch associated products after 3GPP released the standards formulated for NB-IoT. As early as 2016, Huawei began conducting trial NB-IoT applications in conjunction with mainstream operators and partners. In the beginning of 2017, Huawei launched Boudica120, the first commercial NB-IoT chip in the world. Later this year, Huawei successfully reached a number of development milestones in terms of Smart Metering, Smart Parking, Smart Lighting, Smart Agriculture, and associated sectors. In March of 2017, Huawei jointly released the world's first commercial NB-IoT-based Smart Water project in cooperation with Shenzhen Water and China Telecom. This project, involving 800 MHz NB-IoT base stations managed by OceanConnect, set up an industry benchmark for NB-IoT-based applications. Two months later, Huawei participated as a strategic partner of China Unicom Shanghai in the trial commercial project for the world's first 4.5G-based large-scale NB-IoT network with continuous coverage. Huawei assisted China Unicom in establishing an excess of 2600 base stations throughout Shanghai, offering terminals, servers, Apps, and other necessary products for the project. In June of 2017, Huawei and China Telecom co-built the world's first NB-IoT-based Smart Lighting project for scale commercial use in Yingtan, Jiangxi province.

"Huawei feels sincerely grateful in receiving GSMA's prestigious award that represents one of the top achievements of the mobile communications world in Asia. This award embodies high recognition of the remarkable progress Huawei has been completed in promoting NB-IoT technological innovation, solution innovation, and ecosystem establishment, as well as advancing the development of the mobile communications industry as a whole." Jiang Wangcheng, President of Huawei IoT Solution, also added, "2017 is the starting line for commercial NB-IoT deployment, where Asia, especially China, will be the pacesetter. Huawei will continue to offer a premium product portfolio and open architecture incorporating chips, LiteOS, RAN, EPC, and a cloud platform. Huawei hopes that OpenLabs will continue to contribute more to the win-win development of operators and industry partners. All these combined efforts are in favor of a prosperous future for the NB-IoT ecosystem and a fully connected world which is definitely set to be better than ever."

In 2017, Huawei is scheduled to deploy over 30 NB-IoT networks for Utility, Smart City, Smart Agriculture, and similar sectors in more than 20 countries across the globe. To find out more, please visit http://carrier.huawei.com/en/spotlight/reshaping-b2b-together-through-cloud-services/iot.