Hearkening back to 7x24 Exchange’s telecom roots, executives from Radix IoT took the Fall Conference stage to discuss “The Impact of 5G and Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) Technology for Data Center Infrastructure and Customers.”
With regard to the topic of telemetry data and its relevance to data centers, the presentation as delivered by Luke Daiske, Co-Founder and COO and Michael Skurla, Co-Founder and Digitization Consultant for Radix IoT, focused on the advantages of NB-IoT communications for data centers, highlighting key technology benefits including excellent coverage, low power consumption, and the potential to enhance decision-making during utility outages through localized data sharing.
The talk emphasized the technical benefits of NB-IoT for mission-critical applications over unlicensed systems. Daiske and Skurla shared a case study illustrating the drastic reduction in carrier costs for IoT devices, demonstrating the financial benefits of transitioning to NB-IoT. The Radix IoT experts also discussed the concept of social IoT, emphasizing its potential to democratize data and improve systems like HVAC and security through shared sensor data.
The Radix IoT experts also explained how internationalization issues have hindered the competitive LoRaWAN technology’s expansion into markets like Europe and Japan, while emphasizing how NB-IoT offers benefits such as requiring no cellular infrastructure.
Additionally, the talk addressed concerns regarding security policies banning wireless communication in hyperscaler data centers, arguing that NB-IoT can be more secure than traditional wired systems, offering enhanced security via bespoke encryption and authentication capabilities.