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While more focus is given to low power wide area (LPWA) applications and devices, a significant challenge is the definition of Internet of Things (IoT) use cases and the value generation of applications on already existing IoT devices. Smartphones and related devices are currently manufactured with a wide range of smart sensors such as accelerometers, video sensors, compasses, gyros, proximity sensors, fingerprint sensors, temperature sensors, and biometric sensors used for various purposes. Many of these sensors can be automatically expanded to monitor a user\u2019s daily activities (e.g., fitness workouts), locations, movements, and real-time body temperatures. Mobile network operators (MNOs) play a substantial role in providing IoT communications platforms, as they manage traffic flow in the network. In this paper, we discuss the global concept of IoT and machine-type communication (MTC), and we conduct device performance analytics based on data traffic collected from a cellular network. The experiment equips service providers with a model and framework to monitor device performance in a network.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym11040593","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,25]],"date-time":"2019-04-25T03:02:59Z","timestamp":1556161379000},"page":"593","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":68,"title":["A Device Performance and Data Analytics Concept for Smartphones\u2019 IoT Services and Machine-Type Communication in Cellular Networks"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6589-4904","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kingsley A.","family":"Ogudo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical &amp; Electronics Engineering Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg 0524, South Africa"}]},{"given":"Dahj","family":"Muwawa Jean Nestor","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical &amp; Mining Engineering, College of Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET) University of South Africa, Pretoria 0002, South Africa"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4750-8384","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Osamah","family":"Ibrahim Khalaf","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Engineering, AI-Nahrain University, Baghdad 64074, Iraq"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5114-9361","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hamed","family":"Daei Kasmaei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, 3 Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran 00011, Iran"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"22","DOI":"10.1109\/JIOT.2014.2306328","article-title":"Internet of Things for Smart Cities","volume":"1","author":"Zanella","year":"2014","journal-title":"IEEE Internet Things J."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2787","DOI":"10.1016\/j.comnet.2010.05.010","article-title":"The Internet of things: A survey","volume":"54","author":"Atzori","year":"2010","journal-title":"Comput. 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