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Device Map and IoTMeasure IoT activity on your network
With the rapid growth in the quantity and diversity of cellular IoT devices, businesses need a comprehensive solution to understand their nature and capabilities. Device Map, a DeviceAtlas solution in partnership with the GSMA, provides businesses with the rich device insights they need.
With identification of nearly 50 classes of connected devices, across consumer and M2M devices, Device Map provides the tools to navigate the rapidly evolving landscape.
Click on a section below to explore these devices.
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The Challenges
The challenge for operators is that many of the new classes of terminal have very different behaviours on the network compared with the traditional voice and data capable cell phone.
Questions that arise:
How to distinguish between consumer and M2M devices?
How to forecast signalling capacity requirements at cell and network levels for IoT devices?
How to identify rate plan misuse, where the device used does not match the subscription?
In order to answer these questions, precise information on the nature and capabilities of cellular devices is required.
How to distinguish between consumer and M2M devices?
How to forecast signalling capacity requirements at cell and network levels for IoT devices?
How to identify rate plan misuse, where the device used does not match the subscription?
In order to answer these questions, precise information on the nature and capabilities of cellular devices is required.
The Device Map Solution
Device Map categorises IoT devices as follows:
IoT endpoint
Sensor and/or actuator, with cellular connectivity
For example: camera, data collection terminal, geolocation tracker
IoT enabler
Provides cellular connectivity to otherwise unconnected devices
For example: embedded network module, modem
IoT Controller
Data receiver and aggregator command/control of remote and/or local IoT devices
For example: Digital Home Assistants, meter hubs, security hubs
Features and Benefits
Device Map provides granular identification of IoT devices, indexed on TAC, enabling:
Capacity Allocation
Device Map enables identification of M2M as opposed to consumer devices, allowing accurate capacity allocation in the network.
Traffic Segmentation
Permits distinguishing between traffic which is 100% IoT (IoT Endpoints) and traffic which may represent a mix of IoT and non-IoT traffic (IoT Enablers).
Fraud control
Facilitates the measurement of trends of IoT traffic, including levels of abuse of rate plans to ensure that the device usage/capability is aligned with the terms of the subscription.
Deep Insights
Provides deep insight into the capabilities of an IoT device, for example identifying whether LTE-M and/or NB-IoT are supported, as an input to network planning.
Ready for deep insights on visiting IoT devices?
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- Your specific needs and business use case
- A technical overview of our services and the data properties we provide
- How to set up an enterprise evaluation for your team & the next steps to follow
