Recently, patent operating company Sisvel announced that Huawei has joined its Cellular Internet of Things (C-IoT) patent pool.

It is reported that on November 9, 2022, Sisvel launched the C-IoT patent pool, which is composed of 20 patent owners, including ASUS, Datang Telecom, Ericsson, Mitsubishi Electric, NTT DOCOMO, Optis Cellular, Optis Wireless, Shanghai Langbo, Sony, Unwired Planet, etc.

The C-IoT Patent Pool provides a single solution for licensing standard essential patents (SEP) that are crucial to the use of cellular LPWAN standards for LTE-M and Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT), the patent pool’s licensing market initially focuses on smart meters and asset trackers.

It is pointed out by Sisvel that LTE-M and NB-IoT are cellular LPWAN IoT standards following the 4G LTE standard, and both of them provide a solution for low-power connectivity of IoT products that can compete with features offered by many other technologies, such as LoRaWAN, Sigfox, WiFi, MIOTY, Bluetooth, various mesh networking technologies, etc. and their combinations.

From Weizhihshu

October 9th, 2023