The IoT's Role In Telecom: An Essay On Connectivity.

Internet of Things (IoT) has disrupted the role of Big Data in business environments of multiple industriesthrough the proliferation of highly granular and actionable information. As discussed in class and demonstrated in the tutorial, there’s huge potential for diverse applications. The third assignment aims to explore the role of Internet of Things within an industry of your choice through research and review of relevant resources.

You are required to identify such an industry, conduct a comprehensive literature search on the implications of IoT, collate and analyse your findings/readings, identify the key areas you wish to discuss and compile a professionally written report as your assignment submission.

The report should focus on key aspects applicable to the chosen industry, including (but not limited to);

• Business value (from business questions to actionable outcomes)
• Technology (separately for IoT information management and analytics)
• Data (sources, integration and data quality issues)
• Other factors (privacy, ethics, organisational issues)

Challenges Faced by the Telecom Industry

The traditional network providers are treated as dump pipe due to the poor bandwidth by the communication services. The growth of the internet brings revolution in the world of internetworking in the telecom industry. The IoT is capable of building secure communication links in creating new values for the telecom industry. The telecom industry is facing many challenges in in managing their new customers, providing the over the top of the services, and a base for stagnant subscriber. The telecom industry is facing problem in managing their big data to provide the over the top of the services to their customers. The IoT open a new path for managing number of subscribers on a single platform. The new streams and new challenges in the telecommunication industry brings the use of IoT for revolutionize the connectivity between different subscribers. The IoT initiatives depend on three things in the telecom industry. The first thing is to provide the infrastructure which is capable of managing consumer application, management of services, and the wide range of IoT solution. The IoT is capable of developing highly versatile for cloud platform. The infrastructure of the network is formed for telecom industry by using the concept of IoT for unlimited access of data. It is capable of providing wide scalability, better performance, and managing various pools of data. The second thing is to develop new stream of data for managing computing infrastructure to provide over the top of service to the providers and system analyst. The network hardware which is used for enabling cloud capabilities are modem, base station, and operators. The third thing is the opportunity for employing IoT services by using the capabilities of software defined networking and virtualization for network function. The large scale IoT solutions are deployed for providing new services. It has been seen that the industry of telecommunication is associated with daily new invention. The communication changes from voice to video, interchanging of images, ideas, and others. The sensor technology is the key concept of IoT technology which converts the devices into smart devices. The internet of thing is the hub of the telecommunication industry for managing big data. The global need of the telecommunication industry is the deployment of connected and smart IoT system.

Big data is the complex data set which is used for data processing application. Predictive analytics and user behaviour analytics are the techniques which are used for managing big data in the IoT environment. The internet of thing devices is required for managing the big and complex data. The IoT which are used are mobile devices, software logs, remote sensing, microphones, cameras, radio frequency identification reader, and wireless sensor networks.  The variety of hardware and software devices can be placed on the IoT infrastructure. The smart objects are used interconnection between embedded devices.  The visualization packages used in the relational database system is complex to store big data. Volume, variety, and velocity are the characteristics of the big data. Big data is used for business intelligence, cloud computing, and visualization in the environment of internet of things.

Categories of IoT in the Telecom Industry

The IoT is defined as the global interconnection between different devices and object which interact with each other in the physical world. Machine to machine is the interconnection between wired and wireless devices. There are following main categories which play an important role in the rise of IoT in the telecommunication industry.

There are three categories which are responsible for managing dimensions in the telecommunication world:

• Grade of Service:The Grade of service is used for defining the physical connection between telecommunication devices for managing availability, performance measurement, coverage, probability, and capacity of the network
• Quality of Service: The Quality of service is used for defining the flow of traffic to increase the performance of the application in terms of latency, error rates, performance of the dropped packet, and bit rate guaranteed throughput.
• Quality of experience: “The quality of experience is defined as the user experience in the field of providing services. The user experience can be assessed by services provided in the communication network, and terminals” (Haller, 2014).

The traditional telecommunication industry is based on machine to machine communication which faces following challenges:

The following diagram shows the comparison between traditional telephony and IoT telephony:

”The usage based services are provided by traditional tele-communication system but in the IoT environment the data consumption is directly linked with service value” (Buhalis, 2014). The following diagram shows the IoT service segmentation.

“The issues which are associated with deployment plan of IoT in telecommunication industry are management of supply chain system, transaction tracking, value chain transformation, and many more” (Fries, 2014). “The scaling of the communication devices can be increased or decreased according to the requirement of the user” (Khalid, 2016). “The sensor technology is used for managing links between different telecommunication devices” (Fang, 2016). The following graph shows the implementation of IoT in the telecommunication industry:

The edge, core, and network are the key parts which are used for developing the IoT solution

The generic and specific requirements are used for developing architecture for the internet of things. The generic requirement is used for developing connectivity between resources and devices deployed on the internet. The firewall should be used for developing secure interconnection. Specific requirement is composed of connectivity between different communication devices, data collection and analysis, management of the devices, and managing security and scalability. “HTTP, HTTP-API, HTTPS, and others are some of the protocols which are used for managing connection between the devices placed on the network” (Wang, 2014). The layered architecture of IoT in the telecommunication industry is shown below in the diagram.

The features which are associated with the IoT applications are performance, interoperability, availability, accuracy, maintainability, integrity, flexibility, and coordination.

“The legacy and new sensors are used for managing mapping between the communication networks”(li, 2015). There are four categories of IoT in the deployment of sensor which are categorised as Convenience, customization, cost, and control. “The value loops are used for managing roadmap for assessing the viability of the configuration devices” (Noronha, 2016). The following diagram shows the mapping between different sensors.

Conclusion:

The global need of the telecommunication industry is the deployment of connected and smart IoT system. The internet of thing devices is required for managing the big and complex data. The IoT is capable of building secure communication links in creating new values for the telecom industry. The IoT open a new path for managing number of subscribers on a single platform. The new streams and new challenges in the telecommunication industry brings the use of IoT for revolutionize the connectivity between different subscribers. The sensor technology is used for managing links between different telecommunication devices. The features which are associated with the IoT applications are performance, interoperability, availability, accuracy, maintainability, integrity, flexibility, and coordination. The variety of hardware and software devices can be placed on the IoT infrastructure. The smart objects are used interconnection between embedded devices. The legacy and new sensors are used for managing mapping between the communication network in the IoT environment.

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