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5G Warehouse, Workforce Enablement (B) Distribution Center Wireless technologies and Use Cases in Industrial IOT Patrick Grossetete – Technical Marketing Stephen Goodman – Industrial Solutions Architect BRKIOT-1775 Cisco Webex Teams Questions? Use Cisco Webex Teams to chat with the speaker after the session How 1 Find this session in the Cisco Events Mobile App 2 Click “Join the Discussion” 3 Install Webex Teams or go directly to the team space 4 Enter messages/questions in the team space BRKIOT-1775 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 3 Agenda • Introduction • Understanding IOT wireless characteristics • IOT Wireless technology overview • IOT Wireless use cases • Conclusion BRKIOT-1775 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 4 Oil & Gas Warehouse Gas Station / Kiosk Manufacturing Parking Lot Utilities Wireless Technologies are key pillars of the Internet of Thing but… one size doesn’t fit all. Roadways Distribution Center Fleet Seaport Airport BRKIOT-1775 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 5 At the end of this session, you should be able to: • Understand that many domain- specific wireless network technologies are available as access and backhaul for the Key Learning Internet of Things. Objectives • Articulate the challenges of spectrum’s allocation, regulations, standard, architecture and use cases. • Evaluate your Use Cases in a context of Cisco IOT Wireless portfolio and future evolution. BRKIOT-1775 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 6 Industrial IOT Wireless Selection Criteria Public vs Private Licensed vs Unlicensed Indoor vs Outdoor Public vs Private Use Case Spectrum Backhaul vs Access Country’s regulations Fixed vs Mobile Powered vs Batteries IoT Wireless Technology Eco-system Transmit Power Device/Infrastructure Signal penetration Subscription Bandwidth capacity Distance TCO Operations Long/Medium/Short range Backward compatibility BRKIOT-1775 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 7 Green – available today Use Cases for IOT Wireless Black – next evolution From bits/sec to gigabits/sec Wireless Technologies Use Cases Industries Access (A) or Backhaul (B) Manufacturing, Industrial automation, industrial security, plant efficiency, LoRaWAN (A), Wi-Fi(A/B), 4G (B), 5G Warehouse, workforce enablement (B) Distribution Center Passenger experience, data operations, operational LoRaWAN (A), Wi-Fi (A/B), DSRC (A) efficiency, safety and compliance, traffic operations, Transportation 4G (B), 5G (A/B) roadway safety, sustainable mobility, sensor modernization Cities operations, public safety and security, citizen LoRaWAN (A), Resilient Mesh (A), Wi-Fi Cities services, economic sustainability (A/B), 4G (B), 5G (B) LoRaWAN, (A) WirelessHart (A), Mining Field operations, industrial security, workforce enablement ISA100.11a (A), Wi-Fi (A/B), 4G (B), p- LTE (A/B), 5G (B) LoRaWAN, (A) WirelessHart (A), Plant and field operations, industrial security, workforce Oil & Gas ISA100.11a (A), Wi-Fi (A/B), 4G (B), p- enablement LTE (A/B), 5G (B) Connected substations, distribution grid management, LoRaWAN (A), Resilient Mesh (A), Wi-Fi Utilities workforce enablement, grid safety, production plants (A/B), 4G (B), P-LTE (B), 5G (B) https://www.cisco.com/c/m/en_us/solutions/industries/portfolio-explorer.html © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Spectrum is a Scarce Resource Managed by World organizations/Countries – strongly regulated: Transmit power, duty cycle… Spectrum types in IOT Wireless ► Unlicensed: also refer as ISM bands, generally free of charge, public, and private infrastructures, but regulated. • Shared between technologies; co-existence definition in specifications ► Licensed: dedicated to SP (public services) or industries (private), not free, may be reallocated. • Introducing Shared licensed model. Unlicensed IEEE 802.11ad: 57 to 71 GHz mmW Coverage: low Capacity: high > 6 GHz Licensed 5G NR mmW: 24-28GHz, 37-40GHz Unlicensed ISM IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax, 802.15.4, BLE, Mid band Coverage: medium ISA100… Capacity: medium/high 1- 6 GHz Licensed 4G/LTE, 5GNR Unlicensed ISM LoRaWAN, Sigfox, IEEE Low band 802.11ah…868MHz,v915MHz Coverage: high Capacity: low < 1 GHz Licensed 4G/LTE: 450, 700, 800 MHz 5GNR: 600, 700 MHz BRKIOT-1775 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 9 Shared Licensed – U.S. CBRS Example Navy Radar Incumbents are Tier 1 Fixed Satellite Stations RX protected from Incumbents interference from PAL Wireless SP and GAA Tier 2 PAL has priority over GAA, Priority Access PAL licensed via auction, 10 MHz Licenses (PAL) blocks, up to 7 licenses Tier 3 GAA can use any General Authorized GAA spectrum not used, yields Access (GAA) to PAL and incumbents. 3550 3600 MHz 3650 3700 ► Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) is a 150 MHz of the 3.5 GHz band (3550 MHz to 3700 MHz or band 48) in the U.S. – Management done through Spectrum Access System (SAS). • CBRS alliance https://www.cbrsalliance.org/ and OnGo certification • Class A (up to 1W) indoor and outdoor (antenna 6m high) and Class B (up to 50W) outdoor eNodeB. ► ETSI has similar proposal on 2 300 MHz – 2 400 MHz • Germany regulator (BNeztA) has set a nominal fee (€120/year) for 60MHz of 3.7-3.8 GHz, for local ‘campus’ coverage of up to 10,000 square metres BRKIOT-1775 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 10 IOT Wireless Technologies in Unlicensed Bands 6 GHz 802.11p (DSRC) 802.11a 802.11n 802.11ac wave 1 5 GHz wave 2 802.15.4 Zigbee WirelessHar t 802.11b 2.4GHz ISA100 802.11g 802.11n Bluetooth 1.0 BLE 5.0 BLE 4.0 Bluetooth 2.0 Bluetooth 3.0 802.15.4g 802.15.4g < 1GHz LoRaWAN (LPWA) 2FSK OFDM Sigfox 802.11ah (LPWA) 100 b/s 5.4 kb/s 50 kb/s 800 kb/s 11 Mb/s 54 Mb/s 450 Mb/s 800Mb/s 250 b/s 21.9 kb/s 150 kb/s 1.2 Mb/s 200 Mb/s 600 b/s 250 kb/s Data Rate No Cisco solution Cisco solution Cisco partner BRKIOT-1775 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 11 LoRaWAN Architecture Applications or IOT Broker (eg. Kinetic CKC,…) SCHC Raw Others (IETF LPWA WG) LoRaWAN™ MAC Class A Class B Class C (default, batteries powered) (default, batteries powered) Continuous, powered) LoRa PHY Modulation (developed by SEMtech) EU868 US915 AS923 India 865 AU915 RU864 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public Infrastructure: Public & Private Spectrum: unlicensed ISM bands (868MHz, 915MHz) LoRaWAN Data rate: 250 bit/sec – 5.4 kbit/sec (EU868), 980bit/sec – 21.4kbits/sec (US915) Standard: LoRa Alliance specifications, Semtech LoRa PHY modulation Features: Star Topology, limited data payload (up to 250 bytes), Adaptive Data Rate (ADR) Use cases: batteries powered devices, all verticals Network Server(s) Join Server Geo-location solver Measure Data Pressure Flow Rate Power Report Events Pulse Input Humidity Temperatur e LoRaWAN™ Devices Certification by Track LoRa Alliance Today, Cisco solution Application Servers LoRaWAN™ IP App Data LoRaWAN™ MAC IP Transport App Data Radio PHY Tunnel MAC Layer encryption (NwkSKey) App Layer encryption (AppSKey) © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public IEEE 802.15.4 vs 802.15.4g/e Amendments IEEE 802.15.4g/e IEEE 802.15.4-2006 Comments SUN PHYs • Frequency bands availability per In addition of 802.15.4-2011 region/country 868 MHz 1-3 channels, frequency bands • # channels: 802.15.4-2003 – 802.15.4- Frequency bands 902-928 MHz 10-30 channels 169, 450-470, 470-510, 863-870, 2006 2450 MHz 16 channels 1427-1518 MHz • 802.15-4-2011: 314–316, 430–434 and 779–787 MHz bands for China BPSK/O-QPSK in 802.15.4-2003 BPSK, ASK (Sub-GHz) Modulation MR-FSK, MR-OFDM and MR-O-QPSK 802.15.4-2011 adds modulations O-QPSK (2.4GHz) 802.15.4g add 3 new PHY SUN modulation Max. theoretical Data Rate Up to 20, 40 and 250 kb/s Up to 1200 kb/s (OFDM) Frequency band and modulation dependent Maximum PSDU size 127 bytes 2047 bytes Better aligned with IPv6 MTU (1280 bytes) FCS 16 bits 32 bits Better error protection Information Elements No Yes, 15.4e Allow vendor specific information PAN ID 0-65534 0-65534 Identifies a WPAN MAC Address 16 bits or 64 bits 16 bits or 64 bits 16 bits = locally managed, 64 bits = EUI-64 Usage Zigbee, WirelessHart, ISA100 Wi-SUN BRKIOT-1775 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 14 Wi-Sun 1.0 FAN and Cisco Resilient Mesh 6.1 Mgmt: CSMP Resilient Mesh Application (outside scope of Wi-SUN, Network Management Application Also dependent from vendors implementing Cisco Resilient Mesh) ANSI C12.22, DLMS/COSEM, DNP3/IP, IEC 60870-5-104… (IOT FND) and firmware CoAP upgrade over the air Security Transport UDP (TCP) IPv6 Protocol Suite • IPv6 unicast/multicast • DHCPv6 (RFC 3315) for IP address Network Routing: RPL IPv6 (ICMPv6, QoS, Multicast…) _ options configuration • IPv6 RPL (RFC 6550, 6551, 6553, 6554, 6206, 6719) IETF 6LoWPAN (RFC 4944, 6282) • IPv6 QoS – 4 priority queues IEEE 802.1x 802.11i L2 Mesh (optional) EAP-TLS Data Link • Frequency hopping IEEE 802.15.42-2012 MAC enhancements (IEEE 802.15.4-2015) • 15.4e: EB and EBR for network discovery • 15.4e: Enhanced ACK for security and information carrying IEEE 802.15.4g MAC sub-layer IEEE 1901.2a-2013 • 15.4e: Information Elements (RSSI, Time synchronization) Node-to-Node (IEEE 802.15.4-2015) 802.15.4 frame format (Optional) ETSI • 902-915MHz – CH-Mesh TS-102-887-2 IEEE 802.15.4g (FSK) • 1901.2a – Mackinac dual-PHY PHY IEEE 1901.2a-2013 (IEEE 802.15.4-2015) • 86x87 MHz – Mackinac RF • OFDM – IR510, WPAN-OFDM Wi-SUN FAN Wi-SUN Netricity Cisco Resilient Mesh Not relevant for Cisco Resilient Mesh BRKIOT-1775 © 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
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