IoT-dedicated core and operating system unveiled

Ivo Rook, senior vice president of IoT for Sprint, stated: “We are combining our IoT strategy with Ericsson’s expertise to build a platform primed for the most demanding applications like artificial intelligence, edge computing, robotics, autonomous vehicles and more with ultra-low-latency, the highest availability and an unmatched level of security at the chip level. This is a network built for software and it’s ready for 5G. Our IoT platform is for those companies, large and small, that are creating the immediate economy.”

Asa Tamsons, Senior Vice President and Head of Business Area Technology and Emerging Business, Ericsson, added: “Sprint is a pioneer in IoT and we are excited to work together to create a truly disruptive IoT business. Sprint will be one of the first to market with a distributed core network and operating system built especially for IoT and powered by Ericsson’s IoT Accelerator platform. Our goal is to make it easy for Sprint and their customers to access and use connected intelligence, enabling instant and actionable insights for a better customer experience and maximum value.”

The two companies are disrupting the IoT world, creating an environment that is prepared for a future where society and business will be even more connected.

The Core Network:

• Dedicated to help provide: low latency and highest availability.
• Distributed and virtualised: reduces distance between the device generating the data and the IoT application processing it; nodes are distributed right to the enterprise premise, if necessary, to support specific security, privacy and latency requirements.

The IoT OS:

Connectivity management and device management

• Capabilities enable simplified inbound and outbound activity for device connectivity.
• Configuration and updates of firmware and software are managed for each device. All data is managed securely with world-class security on the chip level.
• The IoT OS provides full subscription lifecycle management and monitoring of billing and usage data.

Data management: 

• Capability to ingest enormous amounts of data while delivering immediate intelligence on that data.

Managed services: 

• Service assurance for all IoT elements and enterprise locations, including network operations centre monitoring, service resource fulfilment, cloud orchestration management and application management.