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Jay Moskowitz
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The Internet of Things (IoT) and radio paging
Date:
October 30, 2015 at 10:43:03 AM CDT
To:
Brad Dye
Hi Brad,
I read your Thought of the Week for Oct 30, 2015 regarding the Internet of Things as well as the Email from Noel Gouldin and I agree that paging should have been the medium for supporting the Internet of Things.
Several of us tried many years ago, such as a former company of mine “ON Networks”, to establish this market. But carriers just would not price their services at a cost that made sense and so the technology did not take off.
IoT is normally characterized by a pretty low data rate and a minimal amount of data. If carriers would keep prices at low levels for such a service, there is still an opportunity for paging to capture a portion of the 26 billion devices that your article points out.
To give an example of what is going on, a company called Particle (www.particle.io) has developed a $19 computer that communicates over WiFi to their IoT cloud. From there, these little devices can send and receive data from anywhere on the Internet. I myself wrote a personal IoT app for the device to send me a text message (SMS) if I leave my garage door open too long. The Photon device watches my garage doors and via the WiFi network, sends a message to a handy website called IFTTT.com which listens for messages from the device and forwards them to Gmail which then forwards them to my cellular carrier for posting on my mobile and my wife’s mobile.
But now Particle is about to release a cellular version of the device, the Electron for $39. For $2.99/month you can transfer 1Mb. They believe that represents about 20,000 messages sent each month. Then it’s $0.99 per additional Mb. This is essentially a gateway from an Electron device to just about anywhere, communicating through the Particle cloud and to anywhere on the Internet.
How about if a carrier, or an independent developer, created a ReFLEX version of the Electron and directed all messages to a centralized server connected to the paging network, which could then communicate with any site on the Internet. This is exactly what we attempted to do in 2002 at ON Networks. That is 13 years ago. Create a small device that could be embedded into other products and essentially give them Internet connectivity. But again, data pricing from the carriers at that time, made the product infeasible.
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