Iot sdk thesis

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Introduction 
This thesis has been commissioned by a leading telecom vendor’s research and 
development department, referred to henceforth as ‘the telecom vendor’. The telecom vendor 
is a market leader in providing telecom technologies and are performing extensive research to 
integrate NB-IoT in their service portfolio. The thesis has been structured as follows.
In Chapter 1, the reader is introduced to the context of the thesis and the problem at 
hands. Also, the objectives identified to address the problem have been described in Chapter 1.
In Chapter 2, the review of various technologies studied and worked on during thesis 
have been explained in detail. So, Chapter 2 covers the ‘study’ related objectives of thesis.
The methodologies, design decisions and investigation activities have been described in 
Chapter 3. Chapter 3, thus, is dedicated to ‘implementation’ related objectives of thesis, 
covering implementation, testing and results.
Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 cover conclusion and future prospects for thesis, respectively. 
The last part of thesis contains bibliography and annexure to the thesis.

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To make readers understand the context and scope of the thesis work, a few fundamental 
terminologies and realities have been made briefly clear in the subsections of this chapter. 
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What is Internet-of-Things? 
Internet-of-Things (IoT) is an umbrella term of an Internet-driven electronic (sometimes 
electro-mechanical) ecosystem of computing devices embedded in everyday living and non-
living objects. Generally, these computing devices are capable of receiving, sensing, 
processing, responding to and transmitting the data generated at a local or a remote 
environment. The way these capabilities are used to construct a meaningful implementation 
differs from application to application.
Various consortia, organizations, partnership projects, alliances have been formed or 
extended to push the development in the field of IoT to a level of standardization and acceptance 
[1]. Some of those organization have been mentioned below: