Wireless and Mobile Device Security, 2nd Edition

WAN Technologies for IoT

IoT encompasses such a broad spectrum of industries and use cases that no one low-power WAN technology will fulfill every use case requirement. Therefore, several technologies have emerged that offer different choices, and sometimes these are trade-offs between range and throughput or battery life and operating frequency. However, each technology has its own set of attributes so it should be possible to find one that matches requirements.

There has been a lot of research and development into producing low-power IoT wireless technologies suitable for remote resource-constrained devices. The results have been a proliferation of new technologies and protocols that are constantly evolving. This section discusses the current ...