Reinventing telecom OSS toolkit as an IoT platform

摘要

Development in areas of Internet of Things (IoT) endpoints, gateways, applications and platforms today usually assumes very simplistic view of telecom infrastructure, which is only seen as a tool for transporting packet data from IoT endpoint (device) to usually cloud-based IoT Platform, totally ignoring the functionalities of the network itself. Even with application of specific low-power and IoT-specific network protocols (like Zigbee in short-range and LoRa in long-range) communication from protocol gateway to IoT Platform again views upstream telecom network as a packet data transport, without looking below Internet Protocol layer. Paper aims to explain advantages of considering existing (mobile and fixed) networks as something more than packet data transporters, thru utilizing data from network collected by Operation Support Systems as additional data source for an IoT Application, basically observing the network itself and its' Operation Support System tools as yet another IoT Platform (or set of platforms), which can significantly improve the functioning of IoT Applications and open up the whole new perspectives and use-cases in IoT.