Abstract
Internet of Things offers a wide spectrum of opportunities for innovative
applications designed to improve our life quality. In the energy sector,
the developing of smart metering networks allows operators and companies to
improve the production efficiency and to offer an enhanced service to
customers. 3GPP introduced in Release 13 Narrowband Internet of Things
(NB-IoT) as a new cellular technology for providing wide-area coverage for
Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine Type Communication (MTC). In this
paper, we propose a system deployment of a NB-IoT system for smart
metering. Estimated number of UE that this system can serve and on coverage
enhancement considerations with respect to LTE technology are provided.
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