Trends and Opportunities
OpenRoaming™ is set to revolutionize the adoption of roaming. WBA OpenRoaming Release 2, which enables network and service providers, including MNOs, Cable Operators and ISPs to offer an enhanced quality of experience (QoE) to their subscribers, including voice, high-definition video streaming, gaming and more.
With execution underway to ensure OpenRoaming can cover off Wi-Fi and Private 5G use-cases, the proposal presented in this project is to analyze the opportunity of using core OpenRoaming concepts to address new IoT use cases.
Business Benefits
Whereas successful IoT solutions are being delivered from the cloud, on-boarding of devices into these systems can still be issue. The opportunity is to investigate how to use OpenRoaming to enable zero-touch onboarding of IoT assets across all wireless access technologies as well as understanding the opportunity to incrementally deliver network-to-network roaming for those technologies that have not been designed for such.
This project will analyze how to adapt critical OpenRoaming capabilities to enable IoT device onboarding and analyze how OpenRoaming concepts can be re-applied or adapted to address the new IoT use cases.
Expected Deliverables
- Develop an addendum to the OpenRoaming specifications to address IoT opportunities through a variety of Layer 2 technologies, including BLE, LoRa, and possible enhanced Wi-Fi capabilities for new IoT use cases;
- To engage with WBA stakeholders who provide IoT systems to enable demonstration of any agreed approaches for integration of IoT into the OpenRoaming federation;
- Work with relevant industry standards bodies and industry organizations to include the addendum of specification for supporting IoT use cases and allow more industry players can be benefits with OpenRoaming.
