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Huawei Drives NB-IoT in New Zealand

Industry Players Meet in Auckland to Realize IoT Business Opportunities
2016-05-18 21:27 4040

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, May 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei today hosted the first Internet of Things (IoT) Innovation Forum in New Zealand, bringing together a range of industry and academic experts to share their vision for a better connected world.

The shift to an ultra-broadband future and next generation mobile networks will provide the framework for widespread interconnectivity of devices, from the small and simple to the large and complex. Huawei believes that by 2025 there will be over 100 billion connections globally, known as the IoT.

Auckland’s Mayor, Len Brown, delivering an opening speech at the Huawei IoT Innovation Forum.
Auckland’s Mayor, Len Brown, delivering an opening speech at the Huawei IoT Innovation Forum.

The event was held at Auckland's Viaduct Event Centre as part of Tech Week and opened by Mayor Len Brown who thanked Huawei for the company's commitment to fostering innovation in the Auckland region and wider New Zealand.

Huawei South Pacific Region CMO Lim Chee Siong encouraged New Zealand business leaders, industry stakeholders, and agencies to start preparing for the future today.

"The New Zealand of 2025, or even 2020, will not be the same as the New Zealand of today," he said. "The internet of things will be far bigger than anyone realises. Economic impact from the global IoT market by 2020 is estimated to be US$7.1 trillion, and this is a conservative projection. Of all the technology trends taking place right now, perhaps the biggest one is the internet of things; it's the one that's going to give us the most disruption, as well as the most opportunity over the next five years."

Ecosystem players formed a panel to redefine vertical industry with IoT, from left to right: (Moderator) Huawei GM of Strategy and Business Consulting -- Kriv Naicker, New Zealand Technology Industry Association CEO -- Graeme Muller, 2 Degrees CTO -- Mike Davies, SAP Hybris Director of Solution Engineering -- Colm Maloney, City On Founding Director -- Andy Higgs, Huawei VP of Wireless Networks Marketing and Solutions -- Dr Mohamed Madkour, South East Water CFO -- Phil Johnson.
Ecosystem players formed a panel to redefine vertical industry with IoT, from left to right: (Moderator) Huawei GM of Strategy and Business Consulting -- Kriv Naicker, New Zealand Technology Industry Association CEO -- Graeme Muller, 2 Degrees CTO -- Mike Davies, SAP Hybris Director of Solution Engineering -- Colm Maloney, City On Founding Director -- Andy Higgs, Huawei VP of Wireless Networks Marketing and Solutions -- Dr Mohamed Madkour, South East Water CFO -- Phil Johnson.

Huawei New Zealand CEO Jason said the IoT would benefit hugely from next generation of networks, able to support massive numbers of connections, vast data levels and provide near ubiquitous coverage.

Many devices would be low-powered, requiring only intermittent data connections, but may be deployed in massive numbers, such as sensors for use by farmers which could report on the health of individual livestock, or soil conditions. Huawei believes those devices would benefit from carrier-grade and standards-based narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) technology -- a low-cost solution which can deliver wireless, low-power and wide-area networks.

Complex sensors, such as those used in self-driving cars or healthcare applications would require far greater bandwidth and extremely low latencies to be effective. The breakthroughs required to enable these next-generation technologies are already emerging across both mobile and fixed line deployments.

Mr Wu said New Zealand was well placed to take advantage of IoT innovations.

"Huawei has been involved in many projects recently which have significantly advanced New Zealand's broadband networks. Fibre and 4G are now widespread, and this month Huawei and Spark enabled NZ's first 4.5G site, with speeds of up to 1 gigabyte per second, in Christchurch. The IoT will offer enormous opportunities for a well-connected country to innovate and be at the forefront of this revolution."

About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our aim is to enrich life and improve efficiency through a better connected world, acting as a responsible corporate citizen, innovative enabler for the information society, and collaborative contributor to the industry. Driven by customer-centric innovation and open partnerships, Huawei has established an end-to-end ICT solutions portfolio that gives customers competitive advantages in telecom and enterprise networks, devices and cloud computing. Huawei's 170,000 employees worldwide are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers. Our innovative ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

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