u-blox and Bluvision Demonstrate New Modules on T-Mobile USA's Narrowband IoT Network

THALWIL, Switzerland, September 11, 2017

u-blox (SIX:UBXN), a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, will feature a live Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT or LTE Cat NB1) demo at MWC Americas in San Francisco, featuring SARA-R410M-02B, a configurable LTE Cat M1/NB1 multi-mode module with worldwide coverage. NB-IoT is a highly efficient type of spectrum and the globally preferred standard due to benefits like cost savings, extended battery life and the ability to support a large number of connected devices.

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u-blox has partnered with Bluvision, a provider of highly scalable end-to-end IoT platforms, to display Cold Chain Temperature Monitoring and Condition Monitoring using Bluvision's BluCell. BluCell, a narrowband gateway that uses Bluetooth to wirelessly monitor hundreds of beacons, each measuring temperature, vibration analysis, door openings, location and movement. BluCell is connected via the u-blox SARA-R410M-02B to T-Mobile's network, expected to be the first NB-IoT network in North America.

"u-blox has partnered with Bluvision to showcase one of the first live NB-IoT demos of a cellular module on T-Mobile's NB-IoT network. We are able to illustrate how effective NB-IoT is in transmitting sensor information over the network in a use case that is typical for many IoT applications," said Patty Felts, Product Manager, Cellular at u-blox.

The module is expected to be certified and available in early 2018 for T-Mobile's NB-IoT network, which is expected to launch nationwide in mid-2018.

For the demo, Bluvision's BEEKs beacons with sensors for temperature, vibration, magnetic fields and ambient light are attached to a cooler. The beacons will transmit telemetry data, which includes real-time and historical temperature log for the cooler and the vibration data from the compressor motor in the cooler, to the Bluzone cloud solution.