• Telecoms.com, Tuesday, July 14, 2015 10:09 AM

Chinese institutions China Unicom Shanghai, China Unicom Research Institute and kit vendor Huawei have developed a collaborative partnership to develop a pilot of cellular IoT (CIoT). Based on Huawei’s “4.5G” LTE service for machine to machine communications (LTE-M), the carrier has rolled out a trial mode of what it refers to as “Smart Parking”, and claims it to be the first commercial application of commercial LTE-based cellular IoT. Smart Parking is intended to help ease traffic and parking congestion in dense urban areas with intelligent sensors across the city. Drivers can search for available parking bay using a mobile app, and has been trialled in Shanghai. According to Huawei, LTE-M will help the operator accelerate the progression of its IoT strategy in response the governmental plan, called “Internet Plus”. It claims LTE-M uses minimal spectrum resources, just 200KHz, while generating more than 100 times coverage than LTE, and is able to accommodate more than 1000 times more connections.

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