Eseye launches AnyNet SMARTconnect software with module-agnostic connectivity for IoT devices

Eseye, a provider of cellular IoT connectivity solutions, has launched its revolutionary AnyNet SMARTconnect on-device connectivity software solution. The new solution embeds intelligent, global IoT connectivity directly into any device, enabling organisations to get to market faster and focus on creating value for their customers. Additionally, AnyNet SMARTconnect increases resiliency, keeping devices connected and optimised both now and in the future. This allows IoT initiatives to scale without hiring costly, hard-to-find connectivity or firmware engineers. Showcasing at the IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona from 31st January, AnyNet SMARTconnect is already in use with several of Eseye’s enterprise customers.

Supplied as an independent plug-in software module, AnyNet SMARTconnect codifies Eseye’s decades of connectivity expertise into flexible device software that partners and customers can easily integrate into their IoT or connected device. This helps ensure ‘right first time’ delivery and provides the flexibility of device design to help future-proof the solution to navigate current and future supply chain issues. It supports global deployments by enabling a single SKU, including initial bootstrap and provisioning. AnyNet SMARTconnect allows enterprises to bypass software development and install plug-and-play connectivity intelligence directly into their devices. This can accelerate a product launch by up to 9 months, significantly reducing costs and allowing them to focus on the applications and data that deliver value to their customers.

Matt Hatton, founding partner at Transforma Insights, comments, “One key watchword for IoT in 2023 is ‘optimisation’. It’s no longer enough to bolt together a set of components, and hope they work well together. They need to be optimised with each other to ensure that the device, networks, protocols, cloud and edge storage/compute, security and application logic are all optimised to work with each other. This is particularly exacerbated by the need to deploy IoT in constrained environments where access to power, processing, bandwidth, and memory might be limited. Another watchword is ‘managed’. Enterprises adopting IoT need to be sure that someone is taking care of these increasingly complex elements so they can concentrate on their regular business. Every enterprise needs an IoT solution that is optimised and managed.”

AnyNet SMARTconnect leverages Eseye’s AnyNet Federation, a global mobile network alliance that spans 190 countries and provides access to over 700 global networks with more localisation options than any other provider along with its Infinity IoT Connectivity Management Platform. It includes a set of higher-layer communication protocol extensions including MQTT, CoAP and Lightweight Machine to Machine (LWM2M) that benefit by understanding and responding to the underlying network state. For example, the LWM2M may wait for increased signal strength, higher and more cost-effective bandwidth before doing a Firmware Over the Air (FOTA) update.

AnyNet SMARTconnect includes the following core components and features:

  • Global connectivity selection and optimisation – works with the modem and xSIM to select, manage and optimise the Radio Access Type (RAT) and network provider tailoring connectivity for the application requirement.
  • Increased connectivity resilience – continual monitoring of the data session, throughput, and errors and switches to ensure a continuous data path using application data flows, MQTT/CoAP performance metrics, and network stability data.
  • Simplified data transport & security – manages all modem, wireless network, and higher-layer protocol complexity providing end-to-end data transfer and security.
    • SDK & APIs: simplified “send” and “receive” SDK and APIs for applications and supports MQTT, CoAP, and other higher layer protocols in a customer’s chosen format (such as JSON or Binary).
    • Storage: stores time series data and its own configuration file, buffering data persistently during times of poor or no connectivity until it is successfully delivered.
    • Data encryption – uses the cryptographic engine provided by the cellular module to implement TLS/DTLS encryption, reducing resource requirements on the device CPU.
  • Enhanced management, security & compliance – uses LWM2M to efficiently transport device management information and instructions OTA for connectivity rules, operation, and the customer application (compute, storage, OS, and device requirements).
    • Implicit agent leverages MQTT to enable device-to-cloud visibility, providing device health, performance, and security instrumentation.
    • Embedded LWM2M can be leveraged to provide full-stack device and software lifecycle management, including CPU, storage, firmware, OS, applications, & ML models.
    • Connectivity management & routing improves compliance such as data sovereignty, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI etc.

Commenting on the launch, Nick Earle, CEO of Eseye, says, “The Kaleido 2022 Enterprise IoT survey of 750 global enterprises, who had implemented at least one IoT project, revealed that 84% of them ranked the complexities of designing an IoT device as their number one issue they experienced. Enterprises are not device experts and do not have the budget or the necessary skills, such as firmware design and testing, to achieve this. This clearly illustrates that a standard embedded connectivity software solution is needed to enable the device the intelligence to operate in different environments, detect connectivity, and optimise across multiple constraints, including battery performance, latency, and security.

AnyNet SMARTconnect addresses these issues with embedded intelligence, thus dramatically reducing the cost and risk associated with IoT deployments and improving IoT device time to market by up to nine months.”

Eseye customer AmericanPharma has embedded the AnyNet SMARTconnect solution into PharmaWatch, its environmental monitoring devices for the medical industry, for their vaccine temperature monitoring during COVID. The solution has enabled it to experience improved coverage across the US and allows it to expand its PharmaWatch application globally.

Casey Harris, chief technology officer, AmericanPharma Technologies, says, “Our experience with Eseye has been exemplary. Eseye has proven to be a top-notch partner throughout this project response times are quick, and the answers and help typically go above and beyond. Thanks to Eseye’s AnyNet SMARTconnect on-device connectivity intelligence, our new system is more reliable than Wi-Fi or the other cell system we previously offered. It is easier to sell, easier to install, easier to support, and, importantly, easier to scale. We now offer the best, most reliable, world-class system for our market supported by global, resilient connectivity.”

To find out more about AnyNet SMARTconnect, its AnyNet Connectivity service, and Eseye’s Infinity IoT Platform can provide your business with a seamless service, visit the Eseye Stand F640 at IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona or download the new AnyNet SMARTconnect solution paper: “Why Smart Devices Demand Smart Connectivity”.

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