u-blox will be showcasing its latest products and technologies at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from 22-25 February 2016. They will be demonstrating a waste management route optimization system based on Narrow Band IoT technology. Narrow Band IoT (NB‑IoT) is a Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) technology that works virtually anywhere.It connects devices more simply and efficiently on already established mobile networks, and handles small amounts of fairly infrequent 2‑way data, securely and reliably.
The demo consists of a “system solution” bringing together (pre-standard) NB-IoT with u-blox Short Range sensors (BLTE/Wi-Fi) and gateway technology, supported by an ARM mbed application environment and a cloud based analytics. Built around a Waste Management Route Optimization use case, the solution delivers tangible business benefits by automatically calculating the optimal route for a waste collection vehicle based on whether bins on its route are full or not.
