Impact of IoT based Sensors within Telecommunication Industry

This report discusses the impact of IoT based sensors within the telecommunication industry. It covers the definition of sensors, concerns over the impact of disruptive technologies, use cases of sensors in telecommunications, drive towards productivity and improvement in network quality, and redefining of telecommunication system with the sensors. The report concludes that the impact of sensors within the telecommunication sector of business would be helpful for creating new values and thus enhance the quality of network.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................2
2. Background..................................................................................................................................2
2.1 Definition of Sensors and Impact on Telecommunication Industry......................................2
2.2 Concerns over the Impact of Disruptive Technologies.........................................................3
2.3 Use Cases of Sensors in Telecommunications......................................................................4
2.4 Drive towards Productivity and Improvement in Network Quality......................................5
2.5 Redefining of Telecommunication System with the Sensors................................................7
3. Conclusion...................................................................................................................................8
4. Reflection based on Learning of Sensor Technology..................................................................8
5. References..................................................................................................................................10

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1. Introduction
In the recent connected world, it has been seen that there has been a major rise in the
number of mobile phone devices and a massive use of the broadband internet services. These
kind of services have become the major need of the people and different industries. In the past
decades, the Internet and telecommunication technology have had a revolutionary form of impact
on the commerce and human culture (Hwang & Wu, 2014). The rise of sensor based technology
have made their major impact on the sector of telecommunications and have thus helped in
bringing about a massive change in the society. The Internet of Things (IoT) could be defined as
the internetworking of different physical devices, buildings, smart appliances and vehicles. The
other kinds of items are embedded with software, sensors, electronics and network connectivity.
The usage of sensors within the telecommunication have helped in the enhancement of 5G based
technologies. These kinds of technologies have helped n impacting the telecommunication sector
and have thus redefined the policy systems of the use of sensors.
2. Background
2.1 Definition of Sensors and Impact on Telecommunication Industry
Sensors are low cost based and highly useful technical devices that are able to control
other kinds of devices such as sprinklers, pacemakers and levels of automotive fluid (Ojha, Misra
& Raghuwanshi, 2015). These devices are also used in different kinds of sectors such as medical,
government, education and also within the telecommunication industry. These sensors are
efficient for calculating data based on real time scenarios (Perera et al., 2014). The sensors are
also able to measure and stream data that are transferred over the Internet, bluetooth to
smartphones and various other cloud based services.

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(Fig 1: Different used Sensors in Telecommunication Industry)
(Source: Perera et al., 2014)
The impact of sensors within the telecommunication industry is that they help in
providing an extensive opportunity for them to shift their entire business to a large form of
reactive model. This would help to bring proactivity and value to the end user. Different
companies can also make use of this advantage based on the management of customer
relationships (Sheng et al., 2015). This could also be a purpose of the management of a different
revenue stream.
2.2 Concerns over the Impact of Disruptive Technologies
The concern of telecom companies are based on the immersive kinds of technologies.
The disruptive technologies within the telecommunication industry would be able to bring new
kinds of competitors from different other industries. The competitors within the
telecommunication industry are leveraging disruptive technologies based on gaining advantage

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(Jin et al., 2014). With the impact of high usage of sensors, there are several kinds of new
competitors that have emerged within the industry.
(Fig 2: Underwater Fiber-Optic Cable as Seismic Sensors)
(Source: Dahlman et al., 2014)
2.3 Use Cases of Sensors in Telecommunications
With the explosion in the growth of the smartphone market, the communication service
providers (CSPs) have shown a major form of growth in the generation of huge volumes of data
that travel between various networks (Chen et al., 2017). These telecommunication service
providers make use of sensor based technology for collecting signals and processing them. These
CSPs help in the collection of voice data (Dahlman et al., 2014). These CSPs would need storage

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and analytics solutions such that they would store data in a cost effective manner. CSPs have a
major kind of opportunity for gaining value from the data extracted from the sensors. This data
would help in developing new form of insights about the potential customers, deliver location-
based services and thus target promotions for the customers.
The different kinds of use cases based on the telecommunication service providers are:
 Operational Intelligence – The different kinds of telecommunication services would be
able to benefit from the impact of sensors based on the concepts of frequency utilization,
switching and capacity usage for capacity planning (Ball, Qela & Wesolkowski, 2016).
The process of capturing and analysing of data that would be produced by sensors and
infrastructure could help in accelerating and thus also be able to troubleshoot information
within the suitable network.
 Detection of Frauds – The different telecommunication service providers should be
efficient for the detection of different frauds within the system and thus develop
appropriate measures to mitigate them at the earliest (Olszewski, 2014). These telecom
providers should also be able to detect the bottom line of the technology based on
proactive detection of fraudulent events.
 Analysis of Clickstream – The communication service providers are able to generate
much more revenue and thus also be able to create an innovative mode of customer
experiences. This would be possible with the help of tracking and analysing of the
clickstreams performed by customers in order to understand their choices and their
purchase intentions (Duggal & Paul, 2013). The customers are able to optimize web
pages for increasing conversion that would also include opportunities based on cross-
selling.

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2.4 Drive towards Productivity and Improvement in Network Quality
The different kinds of disruptive technologies are primarily helping the
telecommunication service providers for realizing the gains based on productivity. With the
impact of sensor based technologies, the different kinds of currency and digital payments have
shown a massive growth (Chen et al., 2017). Based on the utilization of smart devices and
sensors, the telecom companies have shown maximum kind of benefits. With the help of sensors,
the preventive maintenance on the different kinds of networks could be tracked and thus be
audited when they would move through the supply chain network (Ojha, Misra & Raghuwanshi,
2015). These supply chains are supported by sensor based technologies. Hence they are able to
improve the tracking of different kinds of devices and also be able to audit assets. The addition
and implementation of sensors would be able to improve the quality of products.
(Fig 3: Future of Telecommunications based on Sensor Technology)
(Source: Ojha, Misra & Raghuwanshi, 2015)

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2.5 Redefining of Telecommunication System with the Sensors
 Movement of Industry from Revenue to Value Generation – With the major impact of
sensors within the telecommunication industry, it has been seen that the
telecommunication industry has been focusing on the making of money from their
customers. This form of movement of the industry towards creating value for the
customers would be based on controlling of cost, convenience and creation of new kinds
of technologies.
 To enhance cost-competitive measures based on data driven decisions – the telecom
operators should improve their capacity based on analytics for the generation of insights
based on resolving the issues within the network (Chen et al., 2017). These sensors would
also be able to take necessary steps based on improving the quality of network by
keeping the costs at a lower rate.
(Fig 4: Usage Scenarios of 5G)

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(Source: Chen et al., 2017)
3. Conclusion
Based on the discussion from the report, it could be concluded that the impact of sensors
within the telecommunication sector of business would be helpful for creating new values and
thus enhance the quality of network. The different telecom operators are making a massive use of
sensor technologies to design new kinds of products, improve the quality of network and also
keeping these changes at a much lower cost. This report helps in focusing on the massive kinds
of impacts that have been brought with the impact of sensor based technology. In the recent
years, the business sector have witnessed a transformative phase. The 3G and 4G network
infrastructures have matured in these years are now searching for new upgrades within the 5G
infrastructure. Despite the different kinds of challenges, there are a huge number of possibilities
that would be explored within the domain of sensor technology. The mitigation of challenges
would be helpful for innovating new technologies that would be useful for the
telecommunication sector.
4. Reflection based on Learning of Sensor Technology
Based on the types of learning and the various kinds of impact of sensors within the
telecommunication industry, I have understood that the telecommunication sector has mostly
been benefitted from the technology. I have also put major kinds of considerations on the major
kinds of technologies that have been affected by the use of sensor technology. I have also learnt
the basic concepts of sensors that are used within the telecommunication industry.
Based on the consideration, I have also made usage of the Gibbs Reflective Cycle in
order to frame the topic of discussion. This would be based on the impact of sensors within the

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telecommunication sector. From the first part of the Gibbs Reflective Cycle, I have been helped
for discussing about the major parts that I have learnt during the conduction of research based on
the topic. I have gained major facts based on the impact of sensors on the telecommunication
sector. During the second stage of research, I have been able to generate the situations, which
could be generated within the telecommunication sector. With the impact of description and
feelings, I would be majorly be helped for the evaluation of current situations within the
conduction of research based on using sensor by the telecom service providers. After the
completion of the conduction of research, I have been able to understand the impact of sensors
on the telecommunication sector. Based on the drawn conclusions, I have been able to take
different forms of necessary steps for understanding new strategies on the use of research based
on sensor technologies.

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