• NB-IoT rollout in eight countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Greece, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, Croatia
• ista is partner of Deutsche Telekom for first NB-IoT smart building solutions
• Deutsche Telekom’s visionary NB-IoT Prototyping Hub initiative delivers highly innovative solutions across multiple industry sectors

Deutsche Telekom pushes the implementation and commercial expansion of the new, standardized and cost-effective NarrowBand-IoT technology across Europe. In Germany, Deutsche Telekom will commercially launch NB-IoT in the second quarter of 2017, and already runs several pilots with large customers in the areas of smart metering, smart parking and asset tracking. In the Netherlands, the nationwide implementation of the NB-IoT network is scheduled to be completed in 2017 with several customers, including indoor climate specialist Itho Daalderop, railway maintenance specialist Dual Inventive and sensor maker Smartsensors, also lined up to use the network. In its other European markets, including Austria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, Deutsche Telekom plans to extend the already existing NB-IoT coverage to more cities during 2017.

“As the first company to push NarrowBand-IoT across Europe, we are proud to provide further evidence of Deutsche Telekom's technology leadership,” says Claudia Nemat, Board Member for Technology and Innovation at Deutsche Telekom. “We will continue to upgrade our base stations throughout Europe to support NarrowBand-IoT using the 900MHz and 800MHz frequency. The technology has achieved the promised 20dB improvement in coverage and we are confident that our customers now quickly realize the advantages of harnessing the benefits that NarrowBand-IoT provides to remain at the forefront of innovation.”

Deutsche Telekom’s broad European rollout comes just four months after the company presented theworld’s first live NB-IoT end-to-end system and smart parking application

"We see a clear trend towards smart building among our customers in the housing sector," says Jochen Schein, COO of ista. "Demand from owners and landlords for networked digital devices is growing steadily. Around 400,000 of these devices are currently being added to the ista portfolio every month.”

NB-IoT Prototyping Hub uncovers smart innovations
Deutsche Telekom is further developing the NB-IoT ecosystem through its NB-IoT Prototyping Hub, a program designed to accelerate market adoption by bringing existing and potential customers together with specialized IoT developers. They can use Deutsche Telekom’s live NB-IoT base stations to test new applications and sensors in its labs in Berlin and Krakow in Poland, supported by a dedicated software toolkit. The initiative kicked off in 2016, and has since brought in over 100 developers, each with pioneering solutions around the new technology.

One such example is the innovative bee hive monitoring solutionBee & Mee(beeand.me

Additional developers whose solutions have stood out in Deutsche Telekom’s NB-IoT Prototyping Hub areAyyeka(ayyeka.comEcoMobile(ecomobile.hrFlashnet, whose street lighting remote management solution inteliLIGHT (intelilight.eu

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