ICE Cobotics has selected T-Mobile US (NASDAQ: TMUS) and Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE.DE) to provide cellular IoT connectivity to help their customers more easily manage more than 7,500 floor cleaning robots. This includes their newest product, Cobi 18, a compact autonomous floor scrubber which is designed to clean 5,000 to 7,000 square feet per hour.
“T-IoT,” the name the carrier gives to its IoT offerings, can lower cleaning robot downtime by delivering over-the-air software and firmware updates to its customers, as well as mechanical telemetry data, from sensors and cameras in each machine. This gives them the ability to monitor and analyze information like hours of use, routes, temperature, and battery life.
T-IoT has been made available by T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom across 188 destinations, on 383 networks worldwide. 5G can connect up to 100x more devices than 4G, providing new use cases for IoT. As a result, cellular 5G IoT connections are projected to make up 57 percent of all worldwide cellular IoT connections by 2025, according to an IDC forecast.
T-IoT will deliver worldwide network connectivity spanning the full range of technologies, including NB-IoT, LTE-M, LTE, and 5G. Additionally, global IoT connections across several platforms can be managed using the T-IoT Hub, including T-Mobile Control Center and Deutsche Telekom M2M Service Portal. Pricing and payment are also simplified to serve the needs of multinational corporations.
By J. Sharpe Smith, Inside Towers Technology Editor
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