NB-IoT Antennas

NB-IoT Antennas Manufacturer

Narrowband IoT antenna manufacturer

C&T RF Antennas Inc is the internal & external NB-IoT antennas manufacturer, Narrowband IoT antennas manufacturer in China.

C&T RF Antennas Inc provides the NB-IoT fiberglass antenna, NB-IoT PCB antenna, NB-IoT antenna SMA, etc.

Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) has become an important branch of the Internet of Everything. NB-IoT is built on a cellular network and only consumes about 180kHz of bandwidth. It can be directly deployed on a GSM network, UMTS network, or LTE network to reduce deployment costs and achieve smooth upgrades.

NB-IoT is an emerging technology in the IoT field, which supports the cellular data connection of low-power devices in the wide-area network. It is also called a low-power wide-area network (LPWAN).

NB-IoT supports the efficient connection of devices with long standby times and high network connection requirements. It is said that the battery life of NB-IoT devices can be increased by at least 10 years, while also providing very comprehensive indoor cellular data connection coverage.

What is NB-IoT?

NB-IoT is a hot term in the past two years. Like the Internet of Things and big data, it has been touted in the IT industry. NB-IoT is short for Narrow Band Internet of Things.

In order to be compatible with current mobile networks, it is mainly based on LTE technology (3GPP Release 13). Now operators in various countries are stepping up the deployment of NB-IoT networks.

The difference and characteristics of NB-IoT and mobile communication (2G/3G/4G/5G)

1. Wide coverage, compared with traditional GSM, a base station can provide 10 times the area coverage

One NB-IoT base station can cover a range of 10km, and one base station in a small county can cover.

NB-IoT has a 20dB gain over LTE and GPRS base stations and can cover underground garages, basements, underground pipes, and other places where signals are difficult to reach. It is impossible to have a signal to make calls underground, but NB-IoT can still communicate!

2. Massive connections, 200KHz frequency can provide 100,000 connections

The more connections provided, the fewer base stations will be built, and the fewer base stations will be built, then save money!

3. Low power consumption, it can work for ten years with AA batteries

(No. 5 batteries) without charging

No charging for 10 years! Are you kidding? My phone is charged every day! NB-IoT introduces eDRX power-saving technology and PSM power-saving mode, further reducing power consumption and extending battery life.

In PSM mode, the terminal is still registered on the network, but the signaling is unreachable so that the terminal stays in deep sleep for a longer time to save power.

The eDRX power-saving technology further extends the sleep period of the terminal in idle mode, reduces unnecessary startup of the receiving unit, and greatly improves the downlink reachability compared to PSM.

What is eDRX?

DRX (Discontinuous Reception), that is, discontinuous reception. eDRX is extended discontinuous reception.

PSM (Power Saving Mode), namely power-saving mode. Many Internet of Things terminals have nothing to do most of the time, and the meter reading and sending a meter is finished, and you can sleep after you finish your work. The device enters the sleep state.

4. Mobility has been simplified.

Most scenarios of using NB-IoT for IoT terminals are static, such as smart meter reading, which can reduce the complexity of the protocol and reduce the cost of the module.

5. Half-duplex mode

Insufficient NB-IoT

1. The deployment frequency is authorized and must be deployed by the operator! Want to build one yourself? It still doesn’t work at present. It seems that if you want to make a one-time investment, the road of no longer paying money later will not work.

2. The cost of the module is still high (compared to the mature GPRS module, wifi module), this should gradually decrease with the increase in usage.

NB-IoT Antenna Design and Manufacturing

NB-IoT is an emerging technology in the IoT field, which supports the cellular data connection of low-power devices in the wide-area network. It is also called a low-power wide-area network (LPWAN).

NB-IoT supports the efficient connection of devices with long standby times and high network connection requirements. It can also provide very comprehensive indoor cellular data connection coverage.

In terms of antenna structure design, IoT products are quite different from the traditional mobile phone structure design, and the technology is not as mature as the mobile phone structure design.

Therefore, the antenna area is often not pre-designed in the existing IoT products, and the antenna environment is relatively complicated. Regularity and different sizes of terminal devices.

Many terminal devices are smaller than watches, which greatly increases the difficulty of antenna design. In this context, how to miniaturize antennas in terminal equipment has become a technical problem at the moment.

C&T RF Antennas Inc can solve this problem. In addition to the existing NB-IoT antennas, we can also customize the style you want.

C&T RF Antennas Inc manufactures the 5G NR antennas, 4G LTE antennas, 3G UMTS GSM antennas, 2G GPRS NB-IoT antennas, LoRa/LoRaWan antennas (includes 169MHz antennas, 230MHz antennas, 315MHz antennas, 433MHz antennas, 868MHz antennas, 915MHz antennas), 2.4GHz 5GHz Wi-Fi antennas, GNSS antennas, GPS antennas, Cellular antennas, UHF VHF antennas, UWB antennas, etc.

And the C&T RF Antennas Inc supplies the antenna accessories such as RF power amplifiers and repeaters, RF connectors and adapters, cable assemblies.

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