Cloud connectivity as a service platform, SORACOM, helps various smart city projects around the world. Here is how we make cities smart by connecting things up to the cloud.

1. SORACOM Services for Smart
Cities and Homes
Soracom Global, Inc.
https://soracom.io

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Introduction
Eugene Kawamoto
CEO, Americas @ SORACOM
Experience
Amazon Web Services
Financial Services
IBM
Twitter: @UG1N
Facebook: fb.me/eugene.kawamoto
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kawamoto

3. - 1990 1990 - 2000s 2010s -
Mainframe
Client Server
Cloud
Edge / IoT
???
Centralization
Decentralization

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You Create. We Connect.

5. What comes top of mind
when you hear “Internet of Things”?
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6. “Typical” IoT Architecture
InternetThings
Connected
Devices
Cloud
Intelligence
(AI, Big data)

7. Devices are exposed to the Internet…

8. Cloud-native IoT Architecture
InternetThings Cloud
Intelligence
(AI, Big data)
optional

9. How we can connect
IoT devices directly to the Cloud?
But … devices don’t live inside the
cloud. They’re in the wild.

10. SORACOM’s answer:
2G/3G/LTE/++ Core Network
implemented on the Cloud

11. InternetDevices Base Stations
DC
ISP
Packet Exchange
Bandwidth Control
Subscriber Database
Billing System
etc….
MNO
Private
Network
MVNO
Connectivity Options

12. SORACOM provides all the benefits of the cloud.
Scalability
Durability
Security
Manageability
No upfront fee
Pay-as-you-go
But also…

13. SORACOM enables customers to
become a network operator.

14. Simple to use APIs that enable:
Build private network dedicated for your
devices and your servers.
Change data collection endpoint from one
server to another w/o touching devices.
Connect/Disconnect remote device.
And more…

15. SORACOM & Smart City

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Introduction
Shohei Azuma
Head of Customer Connection
@ SORACOM overseeing solution
architecture, sales engineering,
partner management and technical
and customer support
Previously with
 Amazon Web Services
 VMware
 Deloitte

17. Wireless Technologies for IoT

18. Cellular, LPWAN/LPWA, Sigfox, Satellite
WiFi, Bluetooth, Z-wave
BLE
Zigbee
Overview
All depends on how close
your devices are to the
network
〜10m
〜100m
>1km

19. •2G/3G
• Wireless mobile communication technology. Still
used in many IoT device connectivity
•LTE
• Wireless broadband communication standard.
Mobile phone data and Voice(VoLTE) is mainly on
LTE
Radio Technology (Licensed)

20. Radio Technology (Licensed)
LTE Cat 1 LTE Cat M1 LTE Cat NB1
3GPP Release 8 Release 13 Release 13
Downlink 10 Mbit/s 1 Mbit/s 250 kbit/s
Uplink 5 Mbit/s 1 Mbit/s
250 kbit/s (multi-tone)
20 kbit/s (single-tone)
Device Transmit Power 23 dBm 20 / 23 dBm 20 / 23 dBm
21 dBm 125 mW Maximal output from a UMTS/3G mobile phone (Power class 4 mobiles)
20 dBm 100 mW
EIRP for IEEE 802.11b/g wireless LAN 20 MHz-wide channels in the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi/ISM band (5 mW/MHz).
Bluetooth Class 1 radio.

21. •LPWAN/LPWA
•LoRaWAN
•License free Sub-GHz frequencies, 868Mhz in
EU AND 915MHz
•11Bps (multiple 125kHz channel)
•The duration of radio signal transmit is regulated
in some countries
Radio Technology (Unlicensed)

22. Case Study (Field monitoring)
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Cow monitoring and herd
management solutions by
LoRaWAN technology with
Soracom Air.
This added new insights into how
cows mingle and affect how much
milk they produce.

23. •Sigfox
•Global LPWAN provider out of France. Sigfox
deploy base stations. Great coverage in EU,
rapidly expanding in urban cities in US
•12bytes payload in uplink and 8 bytes in
downlink. 140 messages per day
Radio Technology (Unlicensed)

24. What is SORACOM Platform?

25. Internet of Things
Internet CloudThings
Data
Intelligence
AI / Bigdata

26. All we want to do is

27. Device to Cloud then Internet
CloudThings
Intelligence
(AI/Bigdata)
Data
Internet
Totally optional

28. SORACOM Platform
Global 3G/LTE Connectivity LPWA Solution
Network as a service
Application as a Service
Protocol Conversion Cloud Adapter Authentication Provider Data Visualization Device Management
Connectivity Platform
API SDK User Console
Private Network Dedicated Network VPN Private GatewayNet Flow Control Network Overlay
Developer tools

29. It all starts with connectivity to
make something smart

30. SORACOM Cloud Connectivity Overview
Dedicated
Line
IoT Backend
Customer private
cloud
Public
Endpoints
VPC Peering
VPN/Direct Connect
Cloud
Services
Secure connectivity offered by SORACOM Air
Simple Storage and visualizing tool
Protocol Conversion
e.g. MQTT -> MQTTS
Data Ingestion
Device Access
SORACOM Air

31. SORACOM SIM and Chip SIM
Global SIM that works in more than 120 countries

32. Use Cases (No Wi-Fi)
Safecast: Geiger counter for Fukushima Tokachi Bus: Real time Bus locator

33. Use Cases (Spotty or unstable Wi-Fi)
Photosynth: Smart Locks FullTime System: Smart Delivery Locker

34. Use Cases (Devices for Elderly)
HOKURYO: Safety confirmation system
for home-care patients
Mago Channel: Communication device
for Elderly

35. Use Cases (AI + Cloud)
Time
Male/Age
Female/Age
Parco: AI instore camera and
analytics on Cloud
Preferred Networks: Edge AI and
Cloud intelligence

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Upload only needed in simple protocol
Soracom Beam
AWS
Converts HTTP to HTTPS
Locally analyze age group,
gender and reaction and
send metadata over HTTP
HTTP
HTTP
HTTPS
Amazon Kinesis

37. You do not have cellular coverage in
every parts of the city

38. SORACOM Air for LPWA
Sigfox
Base
stations
LoRa
Gateways
Sigfox
Modules
LoRa
Devices
LoRaWAN
SORACOM Air
for Sigfox
SORACOM Air
for LoRaWAN
Cellular
Base
stations
Sigfox

39. LoRAWAN
Base Station
SORACOM
Funnel
(Cloud Adapter)
Example of LPWA to Cloud
Cell
Base Station
Cloud
AI, Analytics

40. Want a secure bi-directional
connectivity to my devices

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SORACOM Gate
Creates a virtual extending your server network to your devices
Internet
User’s server
Gate Virtual Subnet

42. IHI Inc. Gas Turbine Monitoring
Gas turbine monitoring
solution with SORACOM Air
and SORAOM Gate services.Gas
Turbine
Controller
Remote
Maint. Device
Power Plant
IHI HQ/
Remote
Office
Remote Maint.
Device
With our bi-directional virtual
network, IHI can monitor
globally deployed gas turbines
from anywhere in the world
with the same Global SIM

43. Just want to send commands

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SORACOM Beam: Protocol Conversion
Internet Service
Server A
Server B
Simple, Low overhead protocol
- TCP / UDP raw socket
- HTTP
- MQTT
ISP
MNO
Things Base
station
Transfer with Secure protocol
- HTTPS
- TCP over TLS
- MQTTS
Add metadata
- SIM ID (IMSI)
- Device ID (IMEI)
- Timestamp

45. SORACOM
Cloud Platform
Cellular
Base Station
MQTT Bidirectional Communication
SORACOM Air
SORACOM Beam
(Protocol Conversion)
MQTT MQTT
MQTTS
Azure IoT Hub
Publish a message to device topic

46. Wio LTE Demo

47. Collecting data without Cloud SDK

48. Dydo Smart Vending Machine
With the network of 280,000 vending
machines throughout Japan, DyDo DRINCO,
Inc. offers exceptionally convenient retail
experience.
Each "Smile STAND" vending machine is
equipped with a Soracom SIM for cellular
connectivity. And through SORACOM Funnel
cloud adapter service, the vending machines
send data directly to AWS cloud. This does not
require DyDo to place an individual certificate
or SDK on each device to send data to cloud.

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SORACOM Funnel
Cloud Resource Adaptor
Authentication
information
Cloud
Services
Low overhead
protocol
Authentication
Binary Parsing
Buffering
Error handling
TCP
UDP
HTTP
LoRaWAN
Sigfox
SORACOM Funnel

50. Supported Major Cloud
Azure Event Hubs
Stream Analytics
Power BI
Machine
Learning
Cloud Dataflow
Cloud Functions
BigQuery
Firebase
Google Cloud PubSub
Amazon Kinesis
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
Amazon
Redshift
AWS IoT

51. Changing the cloud provider is just a
line of configuration on SORACOM
platform

52. All you need to do is to register credential
and set endpoint

53. Prototyping to production

54. Need Low Power Consuming Devices?

55. Need a full grown OS?

56. Adding Cellular Capability
Soracom offers USB Modem and a sample connection script

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Intelligence
First Prototype
Might be too early to see what
my cloud intelligence would look like
❔

58. SORACOM Harvest
Indexes and stores data from your devices for 40 days
Data can be retrieved through API and Web console
Adds metadata
- SIM ID (IMSI)
- Device ID (IMEI)
- Timestamp
Simple
Protocol
Indexed time series
data via API / web
console

59. Harvest Demo

60. Prototyping to Production Flow
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SORACOM
Harvest
1. Check your connectivity and data
format with SORACOM Harvest
SORACOM
Beam
2. Setup SORACOM Beam to send data to
your server or to an EC2
3. Setup SORACOM Funnel/Beam to send data to
your cloud services like Kinesis, IoT Hub etc
SORACOM
Funnel
SORACOM
Beam

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SORACOM provides building blocks
to securely connect to the cloud.

62. For Canada Business

63. Simona Lam (Vancouver, B.C.)
simona.lam@classmethod.ca
Soracom Inquiry
soracom@classmethod.ca

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You Create. We Connect.