“NEED” of Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT)

Each smart device uses a channel of bandwidth for data communication. Therefore increase in IoT devices and usage of bandwidth, risks saturation of bandwidth in future and thus optimal bandwidth utilization becomes important for IoT

Another important aspect is the power consumption With tremendous downscaling of size of electronic devices in the past, their resources are also limited. With increasing processing and computational capabilities of the devices, optimum power consumption also becomes a critical aspect

Many the IoT applications such as smart home appliances, smart agriculture monitoring system, smart meters, smart environment monitoring etc. demand a low data transmission rate or less frequent data transmission. And use of Wideband or broadband for such IoT applications would lead to loss of tremendous bandwidth and huge power consumption Hence, the need for Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) becomes critical