IoT Connectivity

When it comes to IoT connectivity we find it important to distinguish between different types of connectivity. At Schildknecht we like to differentiate between IoT connected devices on a vertical or a horizontal level.

Vertical networking means connecting things like sensors and machinery with end users within a specific production facility or location. For this we recommend using the local Ethernet infrastructure.

Mobile radio comes into play, when you consider horizontal networking. Horizontal networking means site-independent data communication – machine to machine – throughout the entire value chain. Things and end users will be located at different sites and some end users may even be working for different companies. In horizontal networking mobile radio is the simplest and most versatile technology to transmit data from a machine to its manufacturer. With mobile radio a lot of complexity is taken out of the equation: you can connect without having to worry about local IT infrastructure and Internet connections.

– Always connected to the best network: there are 400 mobile radio providers globally with unsteered roaming functionality in more than 120 countries

– Data volume is visible via the device cloud, and billing can be done over the device cloud as well

– the eSIM card agreement is linked to the IoT gateway and not to a specific person, making handover easy

– We have taken into account that all devices with a radio interface are subject to regional regulations

Specific agreements secure very precise billing of the transmitted data packages. We pre-process data and reduce it to a minimum, to avoid unnecessary data transfer. In comparison, ordinary mobile phones produce much larger amounts of data. We offer a global flat rate: we call it 1World, 1SIM, 1Price.