Vodafone and Huawei have hooked up on a new IoT lab to collaborate on the development of products and applications related to Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) technology.
Huawei and Vodafone UK are banking that the lab, which is the first of seven that Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. plans on opening, will jump start more IoT services and applications. To that end, the lab features a pre-integration testing environment for application developers and device, module and chip manufacturers.
The doors opened on the new NB-IoT facility at Vodafone's UK headquarters in Berkshire. The two companies said they are working towards a commercial launch of NB-IoT services early next year, according to a Light Reading story. (See Vodafone, Huawei Open UK NB-IoT Lab.)
— Mike Robuck, Editor, Telco Transformation