Nationwide coverage on a network you don't have to build: 789 cellular solutions from 286 vendors across 4G, 5G, LTE-M and NB-IoT.
| Axis | NB-IoT | 4G | LTE-M | 5G |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Static deep-indoor sensors | Video, gateways and mobile fleets | Moving low-power devices | Latency-critical and campus networks |
| Range | 1–10 km | 1–10 km | 1–10 km | 0.5–5 km |
| Battery | up to 10 yrs | hours–days | 3–8 yrs | hours |
| Data rate | 30–200 kbps | 10s–100s Mbps | ~1 Mbps | 100s Mbps–Gbps |
| Mobility | static | full | full | full |
| Solutions listed | 417 | 353 | 286 | 30 |
New Boundary TechnologiesWellheads, tanks, pumps, and generators at remote, often unmanned oilfield sites report pressure, flow, and runtime…
AirqoonLens compares boundary and background sites, visualizes trends.
autosen.comIO-Link gateway and cloud solution that automatically recognizes industrial sensors, visualizes measurements, triggers…
Wavecom TechnologiesModular gateways combining LoRaWAN, 4G/5G, Wi-Fi and Ethernet plus zero-touch provisioning give cities one managed…
Cloud Studio IoTAutomates electricity, water, and gas meter reading over LoRaWAN and NB-IoT, with 15-minute load profiles that help…
ABAXBLE-enabled tool and portable-asset tracking with inventory assignment, last-known location, mobile geofencing and…
As of September 2026, IoT Apps tracks 791 Cellular IoT solutions from 288 vendors. Cellular is the most common connectivity (100% of solutions with documented connectivity); Monitor & Detect is the most common use case (70%). Source: iot-apps.com/data/index.html
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Email your challengeCellular IoT connects devices over public mobile networks (4G, 5G, LTE-M, NB-IoT): nationwide coverage with no network to build. This hub tracks 791 solutions from 288 vendors.
NB-IoT is the largest in the catalog (417 solutions); the picker above compares all 4 on range, battery, data rate and mobility.
Energy & Utilities leads (30%), followed by Industrial & Manufacturing (28%) and Buildings & Facilities (24%).
Hundreds of cheap battery sensors on one private site → LPWAN (LoRaWAN); everything lives inside one building with power and IT → Short-Range Wireless; no cell coverage at all: open ocean, remote wilderness → Satellite: see the fit panel above.
