{"id":230755,"date":"2017-09-27T10:16:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T08:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=230755"},"modified":"2017-09-27T10:18:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T08:18:17","slug":"mtn-rolling-out-dedicated-iot-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/230755-mtn-rolling-out-dedicated-iot-network.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN rolling out dedicated IoT network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN Business is rolling out technologies such as LoRaWAN Low Power Wide Area Network and Narrow-Band IoT to support its M2M and IoT platforms, said the company.<\/p>\n<p>Mariana Kruger, GM for IoT Solutions at MTN Business, said the technologies will provide them with a stage to offer tailored propositions to enterprise clients.<\/p>\n<p>Among the solutions implemented on MTN&#8217;s IoT platform to date include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Combating rhino poaching<\/strong> &#8211; Low Power Wide Area Network technologies implemented in a game reserve to help combat rhino poaching.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Improving signal to devices<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0MTN has started experimenting with\u00a0NB-IoT and CatM1 in\u00a0urban areas to strengthen signals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Smart water metering<\/strong> &#8211; MTN and Huawei launched an NB-IoT water metering solution to highlight the benefits of NB-IoT to utilities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cargo Connect<\/strong> &#8211; A digital lock that secures goods being transported, and only allows them to be accessed with a one-time PIN at a designated location.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MTN said all its IoT solutions are secure and encrypted, and feature full support from a dedicated network.<\/p>\n<p>Kruger said the growth prospects for IoT and M2M are massive, particularly for industries and sectors &#8220;buckling from inefficiencies owing to lack of access to these types of solutions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/229985-afrihost-launches-new-rain-lte-a-deals-with-r999-router.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Afrihost launches new Rain LTE-A deals with R999 router<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN Business is rolling out new IoT and M2M technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":141928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41906,13],"tags":[26588,42],"class_list":["post-230755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-telecoms","category-wireless","tag-iot","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230761,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230755\/revisions\/230761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}