Key Takeaways:
- Supports edge, satellite and cellular connected devices
- One view of 250+ eligible global carriers and 1000+ APIs that share data from connectivity management platforms with other business applications
- Features carrier grade security capabilities and user specific permissions
- Customers can select fully managed or self-service option
What’s the news?
Bringing on more IoT connections? We’ve got you covered with simplified IoT connectivity management. Businesses can now easily manage and monitor their IoT endpoints across eligible carriers and connectivity technologies with IoT Console Single Pane of Glass from AT&T and Simetric.
When companies have IoT devices with different operators, they have to manually switch to various connectivity management platforms (CMPs) to see what’s happening throughout their environment. If a company builds a product with embedded IoT connectivity and worldwide availability, to make changes, they will have to build integration into different platforms or manually log in to the different portals for the CMPs.
Information from IoT devices connected to different platforms is served into IoT Console Single Pane of Glass for one integrated view of connected endpoints. APIs aggregate hundreds of carrier platforms so that businesses can see their endpoints in one place, with the same look and feel, by operator network, access technology, country and SIM status. The service eliminates inefficiencies and lets customers integrate and aggregate business units or companies into the portal seamlessly without changing CMPs or incurring additional IT spend.
The cloud-based portal helps businesses manage and monitor their IoT, satellite and edge-connected devices with unified workflow globally and near real-time usage monitoring. IoT Console Single Pane of Glass extends value further by offering a comprehensive way to provision and manage IoT connections, optimize spend and provide configurable reporting.
AT&T offers enhanced support services to not only manage a business’s AT&T IoT devices, but also manage other CMP carrier devices. Or a business can choose to manage devices on their own through a self-service option.
Why is this important?
GMSA Intelligence forecasts IoT connections to reach more than 38 billion by 2030. As companies continue to rapidly adopt and deploy more IoT connected devices, the complications of managing a portfolio of remote endpoints becomes increasingly more difficult. Potential challenges include the complexities of SIM management, detection of usage anomalies, inefficiencies in using multiple management interfaces, limited analytics and cybersecurity risks.
For example, if a business has three different CMPs from various carriers and wants to deactivate SIMs, IoT Console Single Pane of Glass normalizes SIM management across carriers. The common format makes the actions the same with a single comprehensive view that streamlines reporting and analytics.
Customers can benefit from automation and data analytics, see devices in near real-time and act on them with new service offerings. These capabilities create predictable controls that finance and IT organizations need to expand IoT digitization efforts.
What are people saying?
Companies like GPS Trackit are already seeing results. GPS Trackit delivers cloud-based, IoT fleet solutions and GPS fleet tracking that help businesses track and manage their assets and drivers.
“The platform helped us gain control, transparency and cost savings. Now we’re able to proactively address potential failover points, increase optimization across rate plans and automatically detect anomalies throughout hundreds of thousands of vehicles and SIMs worldwide,” said Rob Case, vice president, Business Operations, GPS Trackit.
“One of the biggest challenges that organizations — particularly multinational ones — have when it comes to IoT is actively managing their array of devices,” noted Bob O’Donnell, president of TECHnalysis Research. “Bringing them together, even across multiple carriers, into a single management console as AT&T and Simetric have done is truly game changing. It will enable companies who may have been frustrated with earlier efforts to harness the power of IoT to move forward in a way that they had never previously thought possible.”
“This solution is another example of how we’re continuing to drive the evolution and adoption of IoT technologies worldwide,” said Mike Van Horn, assistant vice president, AT&T Connected Solutions. “It’s all about removing the complexity to help businesses scale. Customers need these tools to get the most out of their IoT investments.”
“Bringing existing devices along with the ability to manage customers’ carriers in a single, consolidated platform will enable AT&T to further drive business process optimization and automation for customers,” said Allen Boone, Simetric CEO. “AT&T is leading the way in helping customers manage highly complex IoT/edge deployments through key technologies that allow customers to scale seamlessly.”
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