As the demand for 5G Massive IoT, including LTE-M and NB-IoT continues to grow and scale up, the demand for geographical coverage using multiple bearers increases.

5G IoT Summit – Making IoT work for Customers As 5G Massive IoT, including LTE-M and NB-IoT , continues to grow and scale up we see new technologies and enablers like NTN Satellite linking with Cellular LPWAN to enhance coverage for customer applications.

Wiliot at Tech Blick: Ambient IoT – Scaling from billions to trillions, saving supply chains and the planet With ambient IoT standards emerging from IEEE and 3GPP and adoption of Bluetooth based ambient IoT rapidly scaling from hundreds of millions to billions, it’s important to understand this new segment of the Internet of Things. The original vision of a pervasive IoT was limited by low cost tags that required expensive infrastructure (RFID), or high cost tags with low cost infrastructure (cellular and LP WAN). Ambient IoT is on a trajectory to scale to trillions of connected things by having low-cost tags and low or even no cost infrastructure. In this talk we review the emerging standards, architecture, and applications for ambient IoT.