Smart home devices need secure, compliant, easy-to-use cellular connectivity

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Here, he tells George Malim how the company is supporting organisations with secure, global, cellular connections for Internet of Things (IoT) and smart home deployments.
Ajay Joseph: Customers have come to us asking for connections to smart devices such as white goods going into homes.
One is via the end user’s home WiFi network but this can be limiting because only around 10% connect their devices in this way.
Manufacturers therefore prefer to have a cellular connection built-in to the device that can immediately connect when it’s turned on.
This connection extends all the way into the home and back to the manufacturer and, with a cellular subscriber identity module (SIM), there is a trust zone that you can put the security keys inside.
These are a new evolution in the SIM world which enable us to provide global access and deliver an optimal solution for connected devices.
Specifically, what we do in contrast to older global SIMs that provide access via a few operators, is follow GSMA specifications which enable us to connect to multiple operators in a standardised way.
We’re localising the connectivity based on where the device is and then the data that is generated gets encrypted for transmission back to the device maker.
AJ: By installing the eSIM on the production line, knowing that the device will then have secure, high quality, global connectivity, enables a substantial cost saving over retrofitting the connectivity when a device is imported into a market and is also more efficient than producing batches of market-specific devices.
These cellular modems are embedded into huge numbers of smart home devices at the point of manufacture and we’ve partnered with Nordic Semiconductor to make cellular IoT connectivity ultra-easy, automatic and instant when using its nRF9160 System-in-Package (SiP) module

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