Eseye, a pioneer of leading-edge cellular IoT connectivity, has launched its revolutionary AnyNet SMARTconnect™ on-device connectivity software. The new software embeds intelligent, global IoT connectivity directly into any device, enabling organizations to get to market faster and focus on creating value for their customers. Additionally, AnyNet SMARTconnect™ increases resiliency, keeping devices connected and optimized both now and in the future. This allows IoT initiatives to scale without hiring costly, hard-to-find connectivity or firmware engineers.

Supplied as an independent plug-in software module, AnyNet SMARTconnect™ codifies Es eye’s decades of connectivity expertise into powerful and flexible device software that partners and customers can easily integrate into their IoT or connected device. This helps ensure ‘the right first-time delivery and provides the flexibility of device design to help future-proofing 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 ‘optimization’. It’s no longer enough to bolt together a set of components and hope they work well together. They need to be optimized with each other to ensure that the device, networks, protocols, cloud and edge storage/compute, security, and application logic are all optimized 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.”

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 localization options than any other provider – along with its award-winning 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, and 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 optimization – works with the modem and xSIM to select, manage and optimize 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 and security – manages all modem, wireless network, and higher-layer protocol complexity providing end-to-end data transfer and security.

1. SDK and 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).
2. 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.
3. 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, and compliance – uses LWM2M to efficiently transport device management information and instructions OTA for connectivity rules, operation, and the

1. Implicit agent leverages MQTT to enable device-to-cloud visibility, providing device health, performance, and security instrumentation.
3. Embedded LWM2M can be leveraged to provide full-stack device and software lifecycle management, including CPU, storage, firmware, OS, applications, & ML models.
5. Connectivity management and routing improve 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 intelligence to operate in different environments, detect connectivity, and optimize across multiple constraints, including battery performance, latency, and security.

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.”

News Source: ee News Europe