Will NB-IoT lead meter reading companies to collectively engage in price wars?

Latest update time：2017-11-10

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On November 9, Fuzhou held the 2017 (8th) China Internet of Things Conference.

During the conference forum, guest speaker Xing Weihua delivered a keynote speech entitled " NB-IoT Competitive Situation and the Opportunities and Challenges it Brought to Meter Reading Related Companies ".

Speech Outline

With the commercialization of NB-IoT, the competition surrounding NB-IoT has become fierce.

1. The "four meters in one" of State Grid Corporation of China competes with the three major operators for "tap water, gas and heat";

2. The competition among the three major operators, China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom, for power, water, gas and heating supply companies;

3. Competition between NB-IoT represented by Huawei and LoRa technology solutions represented by ZTE;

4. Competition among manufacturers of electricity, water, gas and heat smart meters to choose between wired and wireless technology solutions;

5. With the commercial use of NB-IoT, various types of smart meters that were originally "differentiated" will gradually be standardized and tend towards NB-IoT solutions. In the "mechanical meter + NB" model, there will be no technical differences, and market competition will enter a fierce state. Reduced profits, small profits, no profits, losses, and business bankruptcies will become the new normal, and competition among various instrument units will shift to innovation in measurement technology.

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