Memfault is a leading embedded device observability platform that empowers teams to build better IoT products, faster.

Its off-the-shelf solution is specifically designed for bandwidth-constrained devices, offering device performance and product analytics, debugging, and over-the-air capabilities.

Trusted by leading brands such as Bose, Lyft, Logitech, Panasonic, and Augury, Memfault improves the reliability of devices across consumer electronics and mission-critical industries such as access control, point of sale, energy, and healthcare.

Kigen integrates security to better lives with eSIM (eUICC) and iSIM technology across all connected products and data. Their industry-leading SIM OS products enable over 2.5 billion SIMs.
Their GSMA-certified remote SIM provisioning and eSIM services drive this momentum, further recognizing them as one of the global eSIM enablement leaders.

As an Arm-founded company, Kigen brings an ecosystem approach to driving innovation and collaboration. Kigen’s iSIM solution makes the SIM an integral part of the processor in chip fabrication and is kinder to the planet too; offering 70% lower power consumption than a traditional physical SIM.
This opens up new ways to deliver power-efficient data processing for 5G and global LPWAN networks, and more room to add advanced computing such as Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Kigen and SORACOM’s partnership has made iSIM technology commercially available on market-leading chipsets and modules worldwide by using Kigen iSIM OS on SORACOM’s advanced IoT connectivity platform.
iSIM technology creates performance efficiencies in the production, auto-provisioning, and management of IoT devices. These iSIM efficiencies reduce the time it takes to deliver new IoT products to market, allowing companies to deploy advanced IoT solutions faster and more reliably.
Read the full Press Release here

For more information on the advantages of the ultra-energy-efficient iSIM, you can download Kigen’s iSIM playbook here

About Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, offering over 200 fully-featured services from data centers globally, including Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). Millions of customers, including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies, use AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.

AWS stands as a crucial driver of growth and success in IoT, with a broad suite of services and solutions designed to connect and manage billions of devices and collect, store, and analyze IoT data for industrial, consumer, commercial, and automotive workloads. Innovative organizations use AWS IoT capabilities today to optimize industrial operations, build differentiated consumer products, reinvent smart buildings and cities, and transform mobility around the world.

AWS IoT Services

Along with core AWS services and functions, AWS offers a complete set of IoT services designed to accelerate innovation, secure IoT applications from the cloud to the edge, build intelligent solutions with superior AI and ML integration, and scale easily and reliably.

Key services include:

An AWS-Native Solution for IoT Connectivity

Soracom’s global telecommunications core is built entirely in software on AWS, and Soracom has been an AWS IoT Competency Partner since 2016. Soracom platform services and IoT security capabilities are designed to integrate seamlessly with AWS services and functions to dramatically enhance security, capability, scalability, and speed to market for transformative connected experiences.

Technical architecture diagram showing Soracom platform integration with AWS

Soracom’s complete suite of platform services align with critical AWS services and functions to deliver a fully-integrated experience designed to accelerate IoT deployment.

Chart detailing alignment of AWS Services with complementary Soracom platform services

Soracom/AWS Case Studies

Video resources

IoT Scale Telecom Infrastructure on AWS:

Remote IoT Alert Automation with AWS Lambda

Soracom Canal: Private Connection for Sending IoT Data to Your AWS Server

Send IoT Data to AWS Kinesis and S3 with Soracom Funnel

Mouser Electronics is a globally authorized distributor of semiconductors and electronic components for over 1,200 industry-leading manufacturer brands. Mouser specializes in the rapid introduction of the newest products and technologies, targeting the design engineer and buyer communities, consistently introducing new products. They spotlight more than 10,000 of those new products each quarter. Mouser.com features over 6.8 million components with 63 website domains and stocks the widest selection of components with 1,000,000 parts in inventory.

Mouser has 27 offices located around the globe and conduct business in 21 different languages and 35 currencies. Mouser has over one million sq. ft. (93.000 m²) state-of-the-art facilities at global headquarters and distribution center, with a major new expansion underway, that will total mirror the existing footprint at 93,000 m² including mezzanine space.

Mouser’s global distribution center is equipped with state-of-the-art wireless warehouse management systems that enable us to process orders 24/7, and deliver nearly perfect pick-and-ship operations. That includes 120 vertical lift modules (VLMs) installed, the largest VLM installation in the world. VLMs are essentially giant vertical filing cabinets, complete with shelves and an automated extractor that move components quickly and efficiently around the workspace.

In addition to the massive VML installation, Mouser’s distribution center features multiple Ultipack and I-Pack machines — a sophisticated automated system for sealing and labeling shipments that can process up to 14 orders per minute — as well as an OPEX Perfect Pick system for consolidation, and an AutoStore system.

Everything you need to know about IoT applications with LTE-M | Mouser Electronics: 3 for 3

3 for 3 is back, this time exploring how Microchip Technology’s EV70N78A Development Board can be used to develop IoT applications with the LTE-M Cellular Network. Join Chris as he answers how the EV70N78A can accelerate development of IoT devices on cellular networks, where it can be used and, most importantly, what even is LTE-M, anyway?

How Connected Vehicles Will Safely Leverage Smartphones

Fitness watches are increasingly being used in our daily lives. As well as monitoring our vital signs, these devices can detect walking steps, sleep patterns, and running distances. In this article, we’ll discuss what’s inside a fitness watch and how to get started with the Maxim MAXREFDES103 Health Sensor Platform.  LEARN MORE

Securing the IoT with Blockchain | TechBytes

What’s Inside Your Fitness Watch?

Fitness watches are increasingly being used in our daily lives. As well as monitoring our vital signs, these devices can detect walking steps, sleep patterns, and running distances. In this article, we’ll discuss what’s inside a fitness watch and how to get started with the Maxim MAXREFDES103 Health Sensor Platform.  LEARN MORE

Top 5 Reasons Your Next IoT Design Should Be Using 8-bit PIC®/AVR®

MEMS Microphones Get Connected

Consumers are demanding ever-increasing mobility and optimized form factors for electronics. This demand has led to advances in the integration of disparate circuit components as well as constant performance improvements of single devices that serve multiple applications. With the onset of the pandemic and the explosion of video conferencing or video/voice communication, connectivity from anywhere with multiple applications has become a necessity. Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), a class of components that saw rapid growth in the 1970s and 1980s, enable smaller and more powerful mobile devices for consumers. Integrating and implementing MEMS microphones provides advanced acoustic capabilities in these devices.  LEARN MORE

Digi-Key Electronics, headquartered in Thief River Falls, Minn., USA, is recognized as both the leader and continuous innovator in the high service distribution of electronic components and automation products worldwide.

With over $4.7 billion USD in annual sales, Digi-Key Electronics is one of the largest private global companies with over 5,000 employees and over 800,000 customers for top technology markets.  

Additional information about Digi-Key Electronics can be found at digikey.com and on FacebookTwitterYouTubeInstagram and LinkedIn.

Digi-Key Headquarters

Digi-Key provides more than 13.4 million components from over 2,300 quality name-brand manufacturers. Digi-Key invests in industry-leading breadth and depth of product that is in stock and available for same day shipment for orders placed before 8pm CST. 

Beyond the products that drive technology innovation, Digi-Key also supports design engineers and procurement professionals with a wealth of digital solutions and tools to make their jobs more efficient.   Digi-Key’s distribution space of more than 3 million square feet (278,709 square meters) allows us to ship 99% of all orders the same day they are placed.

On average, Digi-Key ships nearly 25,500 orders per day.  Engineers, students, and purchasers gladly choose Digi-Key for sourcing all their component needs.

DPTechnics, a European leader in Internet-of-Things (IoT) development, is based in Knokke-Heist, Belgium. The company excels in transforming concepts into fully realised, internet-connected products. Utilising their proprietary IoT platform, BlueCherry.io, DPTechnics ensures ongoing support and management post-deployment.

Catering to a diverse clientele, including both small and medium-sized enterprises as well as large multinationals, DPTechnics offers a range of products and services. While they do not market end-user products directly, they provide ‘IoT building blocks’. These building blocks enable companies to venture into IoT projects efficiently, reducing initial investments and streamlining development processes.

Meet Walter

The team at DPTechnics is the creative mind behind the remarkable Walter board.

Walter is a small form-factor IoT system-on-module which combines the powerful ESP32-S3 processor with a 5G modem and GNSS receiver. On top of the ESP32-S3’s many built-in peripherals, such as UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, Wi-Fi b/g/n, and Bluetooth 5, Walter also boasts the second-generation Sequans GM02SP LTE-M/NB-IoT 5G modem and GNSS receiver.

The Walter module can be used for both prototyping and production, as it will be certified for FCC, CE, Australia SDoC, and New Zealand SDoC. Guaranteeing a minimum of ten years of availability makes it a uniquely reliable building block for your IoT application.

Walter is open source

Walter is open source

Walter comes with a range of 100% open source software libraries for jump-starting your 5G IoT project in minutes. So you can program in familiar languages and toolchains, Walter supports ESP-IDF, Arduino, Micropython, and Toit. All software is available on GitHub: https://github.com/QuickSpot. No special dongles are needed to program Walter – connect it directly to your development machine via a normal USB Type-C cable.

Integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and External LTE-M/NB-IoT Antennas with Taoglas Partnership

Walter has a built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth antenna, and relies on external antennas for optimal LTE-M/NB-IoT and GNSS operation. There are two u.FL connectors, especially for this purpose. We have chosen Taoglas as the recommended antenna partner because of their quality and ten-year availability guarantee. The antennas are designed to be stuck onto a product case. This self-adhesive flexible design makes it possible to easily integrate the antennas into your projects.

Walter features and specifications

Features and specifications

ESP32-S3-WROOM-1-N16R2 microcontroller:

Sequans GM02SP 5G modem:

Inputs & outputs:

Power supply

Form factor

Software

Certifications

Meet Walter – A Soracom and DP Technics Webinar

Meet Walter – A Soracom and DP Technics Webinar
In this next episode of our “Let’s Talk IoT Devices” series, delve into Walter’s technology through exciting use cases and understand how its features make it ideal for IoT applications.
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DCS is an Internet of Things (“IoT”) technology solutions provider to various industries. The wireless solutions DCS provides consist of an edge computing device gathering data, connectivity to the Internet, and server-based software applications. The big data gathered from these solutions allow customers to optimize their business decision-making processes in order to enhance operating efficiencies and profitability. DCS provides solutions and services to the transportation, hospitality, agricultural, telecommunications, and other industrial enterprises.

Video Telematics

A Powerful and Easy to Use Video Telematics Solution

DCS’s intelligent camera solutions, combined with an award-winning IoT platform, are transforming how vehicle operations approach road safety, claims management, duty of care, fleet compliance, and operational risk.

Advanced video telematics that protects your drivers, business, and other road users.

Help your customers keep their drivers and vehicles safer while streamlining their day-to-day operations and reducing costs. Our video telematics solution provides valuable video insights and advanced risk detection tools to help improve fleet safety and efficiency. The innovative technology in our wide selection of dashcams utilize robust machine vision and artificial intelligence to proactively detect and mitigate risk. Help reduce risk with a proven approach that has helped hundreds of thousands of drivers navigate millions of miles safely for more than 20 years. The solution is easy to use, accessibly priced, and works for any vehicle class. Help your clients jumpstart fleet safety and protect their bottom lines.

Driver Safety

Enhance driver behavior by acquiring the necessary understanding to monitor and evaluate driving patterns. Mitigate driver incidents by fostering increased driver involvement. Identify potential hazards and pinpoint drivers with a higher likelihood of being involved in collisions, thereby reducing operational risk. Implement a significant road safety strategy to safeguard lives effectively.

Insurance

Protect against fraudulent claims with irrefutable video evidence. Decrease claim frequency by challenging liability and 50/50 claims. Achieve insurance cost savings through prompt liability determination, robust defense, and effective claims management. Utilize First Notification of Loss (FNOL) and Third Party Intervention (TPI) for efficient claims handling.

Fleet Management

Enhance operational efficiency by reducing fuel consumption and maintenance expenses. Minimize vehicle damage by decreasing instances of harsh driving and speeding. Boost fleet productivity by preventing vehicle and driver downtime. Gain improved visibility and control for effective fleet monitoring.

Fleet Compliance

Ensure adherence to fleet safety standards. Mitigate environmental impact by adopting responsible operating practices. Enhance duty of care by prioritizing the protection of staff members. Safeguard corporate reputation through enhanced brand protection.

Dash Cam Incident Video

Features & Benefits

Solar Powered Asset Tracking

A solar powered asset tracker is a device that uses solar energy to power its functions and is used to track the location and status of an asset.

Solution Sheet

Locate Assets, Reduce Costs & Increase Asset Utilization

The MiFleet Solar Powered Asset Tracking Solution utilizes GPS technology to determine the asset’s location and can transmit this information via cellular or satellite networks to our MiFleet Software. The device is often used to track the movement and status of valuable assets, such as shipping containers, fleet vehicles, and construction equipment, and can provide real-time updates on the asset’s location, speed, and condition. Solar powered asset trackers are a cost-effective and environmentally friendly solution for asset tracking, as they do not require a continuous power source and do not emit any emissions.

Features & Benefits
Discover the power of a Solar Powered Tracking Device

Remote Temperature Monitoring

Real-time temperature monitoring and alerting ensure that your temperature-controlled goods are kept and transported in the appropriate conditions.

Solution Sheet

Ensure the safety of critical assets by maintaining optimal temperature conditions.

MiFleet introduces the pinnacle of fleet management tools: remote monitoring sensors. As a fleet manager, you gain access to valuable temperature data for your vehicles, conveniently displayed in your platform’s monitoring tab. Ensure a continuous, safe temperature for assets like food, vaccines, equipment, and environments, seamlessly tracking your vehicles and maintaining consistent temperature records all in a single location. Experience unparalleled ease in monitoring and managing your fleet.

Remain Compliant

Maintain compliance with stringent industry regulations by utilizing comprehensive audit trails and audit logs for each journey.

Protect Your Assets

Stay informed about the status of your temperature-sensitive assets in real-time and receive immediate notifications regarding any temperature violations.

Improve Customer Service

Keep your customers informed and engaged by providing live ETA alerts and proof of temperature reports.

Wide range of operating temperatures

Operating between -30℃ ~ +80℃ (-22°F ~ 176°F)

BLE 5.0 Sensor Technology

Through one of our supported Asset Tracking BLE Hubs, data can be effortlessly transferred wirelessly using our BLE 5.0 sensors.

Easy Installation

Installing our sensor is a breeze, requiring minimal effort and time.

High Accuracy

Accuracy of ± 0.2 ℃ for temperature, and 2% RH for humidity.

Wide Transmission Range

Operating distance up to 300m (open field).

Features & Benefits
Discover the power of a Solar Powered Tracking Device

Asset Tracking

Pallets, containers, tools, trailers… you name it, if it’s portable, we can track it.

Solution Sheet

Built to go anywhere and track everything
Introducing our revolutionary Asset Tracking Solution. Gain real-time visibility, customize profiles, and track assets with precision. Seamlessly integrate with existing systems, access detailed reports, and stay mobile. Optimize operations, reduce loss, and save costs. Streamline asset management, elevate customer service, and ensure compliance. Unlock productivity and efficiency with our innovative solution.

 

Increase Asset Utilization, Reduce Fuel Consumption & Prevent Theft

Services and Trades

Increase Asset Utilization, Reduce Fuel Consumption & Prevent Theft

Services and Trades

Lower Costs, Increase Efficiency & Customer Satisfaction

Healthcare

Work Smarter and Focus More Time On Your Patients

Utilities

Utility Equipment & Personnel Management

Features & Benefits
Discover the power of Asset Tracking.

Contact Us

Want to learn more?  Contact:  Michael Lawless, EVP Sales & Business Development,
E:  [email protected],
P:  (858) 349-8833

Founded in 2017, Simetric is a cutting-edge software company specializing in holistic lifecycle management for IoT and edge-connected devices. As a continuously innovating IoT management platform,

Simetric simplifies complex data streams from large-scale, cross-carrier device deployments into an easy-to-use, single-pane format. This unique approach enables businesses to efficiently manage IoT connectivity and optimize cellular connected, satellite, and edge device management, unleashing the full potential of 5G technology.

Simetric’s platform offers unparalleled insights for IoT-managed services, delivering immediate results by standardizing operations, and provide a consolidated view and actionable insights across over 225 carriers and 1,000 APIs, all within one intelligent and intuitive platform. This comprehensive solution empowers clients to take control of their IoT connectivity, ensuring seamless operations through business process optimization and automation .  With near real-time insights on a global scale, Simetric has established itself as a leader in this space.

Through the partnership with Soracom, Simetric aims to further enhance the capabilities of businesses in managing and leveraging IoT technology, driving growth and success for all internal stakeholders and their customers. Together, Soracom and Simetric are forging a future with accelerated deployment and efficient operations at scale as the foundation.

Simetric Products & Services

In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, seamless IoT connectivity and efficient management of IoT deployments are essential for businesses to stay ahead of the curve.

By leveraging Simetric’s cutting-edge products and services, Soracom customers can benefit from a wide range of features that help streamline their IoT infrastructure and support their growth.

Key offerings of Simetric highlighted below, that provide additional value to Soracom’s vast customer ecosystem, make it easier for customers to manage and scale their IoT deployments across the globe, provide predictive and prescriptive analytics and actions while gaining an immediate time to value – typical Simetric customers see a 1:8-10x return for every dollar invested in the Simetric platform.

Discover the full potential of Simetric’s products and services tailored for the Soracom ecosystem, and gain a deeper understanding of Simetric’s offerings.

See Simetric in action:

Dashboard and Widget Configuration:

Bulk SIM Provisioning & SIM Profile Details:

Device Alerts + Notifications:

Ad-Hoc Reports:

Platform APIs:

UnaBiz is a proven IoT service provider who specializes in sensor product design, manufacturing, and cloud platform services across a hybrid of low-power wide area (LPWA) technologies such as Sigfox, LTE-M, NB-IoT and LoRaWAN. The company has deployed over 1.4 million sensors in 28 countries, including Singapore, Japan, Australia and Taiwan, focusing on Smart Cities applications such as Smart Metering, Facilities Management, Asset Management and Asset Tracking.

The Unabiz team in Labège, France

UnaBiz envisions a closely connected world powered by simple technology because we believe “Less is More”. By uniting people and technology, the company aims to create an impact on a massive scale, to help every person and every organization on the planet live smarter, simpler, and in a more sustainable way.

As leader in identity technologies, IDEMIA is on a mission to unlock the world and make it safer. Backed by cutting-edge R&D, IDEMIA provides unique technologies, underpinned by long-standing expertise in biometrics, cryptography, data analytics, systems and smart devices.

IDEMIA offers its public and private customers payment, connectivity, access control, travel, identity and public security solutions. Every day, around the world, IDEMIA secures billions of interactions in the physical and digital worlds.

With nearly 15,000 employees, IDEMIA is trusted by over 600 governmental organizations and more than 2,300 enterprises spread over 180 countries, with an impactful, ethical and socially responsible approach.

IDEMIA enables always on connectivity via its dedicated M2M hardware DIM and DAKOTA eSIM product ranges enabling international multi operator connectivity. In combination with IDEMIA’s GSMA certified M2M Remote management platform, Smart Connect, SORACOM have the ability to flexibility manage connectivity securely throughout the lifecycle of the device. More recently this also includes one of the first Consumer IoT eSIM services based on the current GSMA WG7 specification.

Global and always-on connectivity enablement

IDEMIA’s remote SIM provisioning solutions enables to get in real-time the best connectivity service depending on the location, cost and coverage, wherever the device is deployed in the world. Devices can be manufactured locally and shipped globally, with connectivity swapping whenever it’s needed, when the device arrives at its destination or enters a new country or region for instance.

A root of trust for every IoT security need

IDEMIA’s wide range of ruggedized connectivity solutions—SIM, eSIM, and integrated SIMs—provide mobile operators, OEMs and other service providers with a comprehensive answer to the many challenges of the IoT ecosystem. Relying on these roots of trust, our IoT connectivity and credential distribution solutions ensure end-to-end security of all data exchanged between individuals and the IoT ecosystem—addressing IoT security at the end-point level, as recommended by the GSMA with the IoT SAFE specifications.

5G and low power: the future of IoT connectivity

With 5G connectivity solutions, IDEMIA is leading the way for the next wave of IoT devices with partners across the globe. The IoT connectivity evolution in the 5G era opens up new use cases and business opportunities such as private networks, network slicing, enhanced IoT security and better subscriber privacy protection.

IDEMIA is also actively involved in the GSMA Working Group 7, defining new architecture for IoT connectivity addressing new use cases and constraints such as low power devices with no user interface and low power networks. Our M2M connectivity solutions addresses your current and future connectivity needs and challenges.

Better control over IoT connectivity and service quality

As a trusted global partner for connectivity solutions, security and digital services, IDEMIA provides MNOs and OEMs with product, solutions and services tailored to the IoT ecosystem needs for seamless credential distribution, physically and or digitally. Our dedicated digital platforms enable them to load credentials over-the-air, and facilitate the configuration and maintenance of secure elements, whether they are removable or soldered. They also enable remote management of subscriptions, and accurately measure network quality and availability of the IoT connectivity at the object level.


Unlocking The Power of eSIM Technology with IDEMIA and Soracom

Soracom and IDEMIA recently teamed up for an exciting panel discussion on the driving forces of eSIM adoption for OEMs and Service Providers.