Huawei Tanzania celebrates GSMA's Best IoT Innovation for Mobile Networks Award

(Dar es Salaam, July 11, 2017) Huawei Tanzania says that the GSMA’s recognition of Huawei’s NB-IoT solution is a great honour and a boost for its efforts to accelerate the development of the Internet of Things in Tanzania. 

 

Huawei received the "Best IoT Innovation for Mobile Networks" award from the GSMA at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai last week.

 

The GSMA is a global trade body that represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide. 

 Huawei's NB-IoT solution was cited for its outstanding achievements and contributions in technological innovation, industry research, and applied practice. 

 

“This is a great accolade and it gives us more confidence as we work together with our customers and partners toward the standardisation of NB-IoT; this technology gives carriers a better position in the IoT value chain,” says Zhu Ming, Huawei’s IoT Regional Director.

 

The goal of the Huawei NB-IoT solution is to jointly build a better connected IoT solution and ecosystem with operators and partners from a diverse range of vertical industries.

Huawei and MTN are already working together in the IoT space, which is focused on Smart Refrigeration, Smart Water and Usage-based Insurance Solutions.

 

Vodacom recently partnered with Huawei to successfully launch Africa’s first live NB-IoT site, which is fully compliant with the standardised 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) NB IoT specifications.

 

Successful deployment of IoT solutions across Africa to date includes electronic tolling and smart metering in South Africa, waste management in Kenya, freight monitoring in Tanzania, electronic medicine dispensing in Namibia.

 

“In Africa the opportunity is great for using Narrow Band IoT solutions (NB-IoT), because this network gives us wide and deep coverage and devices that are deployed have a very long battery life,” says Ming 

 

In accepting the award in Shanghai, China earlier last week, Jiang Wangcheng, President of Huawei IoT Solution said; “This award embodies recognition of the remarkable progress Huawei has made in promoting NB-IoT technological innovation, solution innovation, and ecosystem establishment, as well as advancing development of the mobile communications industry as a whole.” 

In 2017, Huawei is scheduled to deploy over 30 NB-IoT networks for Utility, Smart City, Smart Agriculture, and other sectors in more than 20 countries across the globe.

 

To find out more, please visit http://carrier.huawei.com/cn/spotlight/reshaping-b2b-together-through-cloud-services/iot.