Patent licensing company Sisvel announced that Huawei has joined its cellular IoT (C-IoT) patent pool.

Reports say that on November 9, 2022, Sisvel launched the C-IoT patent pool, which consists of 20 patent owners, including Asus, Datang Telecom, Ericsson, Mitsubishi Electric, NTT DOCOMO, Optis Cellular, Optis Wireless, Shanghai Langbo, Sony, Unwired Planet and others.

The C-IoT patent pool provides a single solution to license standard essential patents (SEPs) that are essential for using the cellular LPWAN standards LTE-M and narrowband IoT (NB-IoT). The license market of the patent pool will initially focus mainly on smart meters and asset trackers.

Sisvel pointed out that LTE-M and NB-IoT are cellular LPWAN IoT standards after 4G LTE standards. They provide a solution for low-power connectivity for IoT products, which can compete with the functions provided by many other technologies, such as LoRaWAN, Sigfox, WiFi, MIOTY, Bluetooth, various mesh network technologies and their combinations.

In addition to announcing Huawei’s joining the C-IoT patent pool, Sisvel also announced the new license fees of the patent pool, including lower-priced devices. In the new license fees, Sisvel added lower license fees for low-priced devices in the LTE-M part of smart sensor devices (asset trackers). They are differentiated according to the different selling prices of the devices: $0.08/unit for less than $6, $0.35/unit for $6-$20, $1.33/unit for $20-$130, and negotiable for more than $130.