Genband: delivering IoT Capable Networks

One of the key points of his speech was how the combination of IoT and Real Time Communications (RTC) is creating an environment where multiple types of data can be exchanged. This ‘Exchange of Everything’ is a network of interconnected devices, infrastructure, people and applications. This increased flow in information is what is enabling crowdsourcing applications like Uber and Airbnb where we are seeing businesses entirely based on connecting people. This connection is placed in a context with additional information and the end result is the simplest business models where one person offers a service, and someone else buys it, a million times a day, all over the world.
 
Patrick also spoke about how to build IoT Networks, starting with a virtualized data center that manages services, apps and APIs, and cloud services that link it to the network. He covered how access and connectivity were being managed through a variety of systems, such as Long Range Low Powered Wide Area (LoRa LPWA) networks, as well as other systems like 3GPP and specific 4G and 5G applications. This section ended with a discussion of all of the many things that IoT could work with, such as Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, operation technologies like Uber’s driver management systems and Real Time or Human-to-Human (H2H) Communications. H2H ranged from everything from conference calls to telepresence.
 
Patrick also introduced Genband’s own solution for enabling (RTC) on IoT devices -Kandy.io. Kandy is offered as a series of Software Development Kits (SDKs) and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) which allow its customers to build custom communications solutions into their existing platforms. This means that Kandy.io has a lot to offer the IoT space, as it can not only enable M2M communications, but also H2H, and any combination of the two.

One example that Patrick discussed was Kandy.io’s work with Telemedco -powered by IBM’s Watson supercomputer- to offer real time telehealth solutions to emergency rooms. This partnership dramatically improved automation and information integration in emergency rooms, as well as allowing access to critical medical records, imaging results, and external consultant input in critical situations where seconds matter most.