back to article Utility company picks NB-IoT, actively spurns rival techs' USPs

A utility company has opted for Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) connectivity technology for its IoT deployment, crapping all over competing connectivity techs in the process. "We looked at proprietary technologies in the early days because NB-IoT didn't exist. We came to the realisation that we wanted to stick to our …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Security?

    Or is that a bad word?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Security?

      In the IoT manufacturing and deployment community it is, especially from what we of their not implementation of it.

    2. Tim99 Silver badge
      Trollface

      Re: Security?

      Or is that a bad word?

      Not a bad word, but it has first been translated from English into Mandarin, then Hindi and Tiếng Việt by people who are not native speakers of the previous language. Then converted back, via Chinglish for the poor sods who are tasked with creating this. The hardware engineers will have one translation, and the software developers will have another. The whole thing will be driven by a team who's original ideas were copied from a manglement PowerPoint presentation by a marketing drone.

    3. russsh

      Re: Security?

      NIDD - look it up. Low volume NB-IoT traffic doesn't go through the public internet until it reaches an upstream node big enough to look after itself security-wise.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I love how they're going to clog the airwaves with this shit, just to prevent the customer/product unplugging the data hose.

    Does anyone want to invest in my home Faraday cage business?

    1. Peter2 Silver badge

      If it's sitting inside a meter cabinet, wouldn't lining the inside of the cabinet with tinfoil be cheaper and just as effective as a Faraday cage?

      I'm not sure your business has a great future. ;)

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        At Home Faraday UK Ltd we have a range of products to suit all budgets, from meter cabinets to full spectrum home protection.

        Check out our stylish line of wearables. Faraday jackets, to tinfoil trilbies.

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  4. NIck Hunn

    It's hardly surprising

    As they say - they're sticking to their core strengths, of which comms is not one. So it's natural that given the need to choose between multiple unproven options, they go for the only one one which offers an SLA. What's surprising is to see a utility make a sensible decision when technology's involved.

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