Federated Wireless, Ruckus, Athonet to hold IoT demo with Amazon

During a two-hour event on Thursday, IoT developers at AWS re:Invent will get a chance to use DeepLens cameras connected to a private LTE network supported by Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS). The demo at Amazon’s shindig in Las Vegas this week serves several purposes, including showing the simplicity of creating Industrial IoT applications using the cloud and giving enterprises an idea of how they can use CBRS for a private LTE network. About 100 developers have been invited to participate, and each of them will get to use a DeepLens device, which was built by Amazon with special facial and image recognition capabilities. The devices will connect to band 48-compatible modems over CBRS, which is the 3.5 GHz band in the U.S. Organizers say CBRS was the perfect choice to connect a large number of cameras in a single room without impacting throughput. Federated Wireless is providing the spectrum controller, enabling access to the CBRS shared spectrum. AWS is providing the cloud IoT platform—Amazon also offers a range of IoT services. The Athonet BubbleCloud EPC platform on AWS allows users to deploy LTE networks with simplicity—it provides local “bubbles” or blankets of LTE coverage that are connected and controlled from the AWS Cloud. And Ruckus Networks provides its FCC-certified LTE portfolio.