Cellular IoT Network and Infrastructure Redundancy Regardless of the why of a failure, your end users are less likely to blame their WiFi routers and more likely to blame you, the device provider, for not account for all outage scenarios. This is why redundancy is a critical component of proper cellular IoT deployments. With a contingency plan for every predictable failure point, you can maximize availability and reduce the impact of negative network issues. Even if you’re banking on Wi-Fi, wired Ethernet, or LoRaWAN, cellular can (and should) be a key consideration when crafting a fallback or redundant network solution. Illustration: © IoT For All
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f you’ve been following along in this blog series, you’ve seen how cellular connectivity can be ideal for IoT solutions in logistics, manufacturing, security, asset tracking, among myriad other industries. You’ve also learned what “cellular IoT” really means and some of its associated advantages.
deployments? Are you banking on a triedand-true connectivity method?
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What is Cellular IoT?
Today I want to take a brief look at another de facto advantage of cellular, which is the utilization of an underlying infrastructure built up over decades.
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The Advantages of Cellular IoT
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Common Use Cases for Cellular IoT
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Cellular IoT Network and Infrastructure Redundancy (that’s today)
In this blog series, we are demystifying cellular and taking a critical look at four key topics related to wireless in the Internet of Things:
An overlapping, interconnected mesh of connectivity, if you will:
Why Redundancy is Critical for IoT
Specifically, we are going to look at the topic of redundancy and its relation to cellular IoT. How prepared are you for all possible remote deployment scenarios throughout the lifespan of your IoT
What does happen if your device loses network connectivity? Can it still perform the tasks that it was built to do? Or does data accumulate in storage until the device is full, and then it fails hard?
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Redundancy is important with the devices themselves, yes, but it’s just as important to work with a mobile network operator that considers redundancy at a higher level. Cellular Network Redundancy Many cellular IoT providers offer SIM cards limited to a single mobile network operator in a single geographic area. If this is the case, how do you deploy to rural areas with coverage on another network, not to mention other countries entirely? A proper cellular IoT company will offer solutions that work with highly-regarded providers and their first-class partners in neighboring regions. When you can’t predict the country of deployment or the solution itself is meant to travel between geographic regions, a seamless reconnection from network to network is critical.
