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Advantages

IoT is becoming increasing popular; however, many enterprises may find their IoT transformation challenging due to issues such as fragmented access, complex device and security management, and inadequate platform capacity. To address these pain points, HUAWEI CLOUD IoT Platform provides a series of solutions.

Traditional Platform

HUAWEI CLOUD IoT Platform

Device communication
  • Difficulty in detecting network status: Physical SIM cards may be purchased across regions. It is difficult to test the destination network status at the production location.
  • Difficulty in global expansion: Negotiation and interconnection with multiple carriers around the world are required, which poses great challenges to integration.
  • High roaming fees: Instead of paying for high roaming fees, enterprises prefer to use local payments of the country where the device is located to reduce costs.

Using Global SIM Link, you can purchase IoT cards to quickly migrate devices to the cloud and connect global devices. Currently, Global SIM Link covers more than 30 carriers in over 200 countries and regions. Multiple carrier options are provided for you to select the best network and optimal payment option in a country.

Device access
  • Different hardware development platforms, protocols, and networks complicate device access.
  • Integration of multi-vendor, multi-type devices with upper-layer applications is difficult.

The platform supports multiple access networks and protocols, and provides SDKs in different programming languages for fast, convenient device access.

Security and data protection

Security measures need to be developed and deployed in an end-to-end manner to secure devices, information transmission, and data.

The platform provides multiple GDPR-compliant security measures to secure devices, information transmission, and data privacy.

Performance and stability

Independent architectures do not support concurrent connections of a large number of devices.

The microservice carrier-class architecture supports hundreds of millions of connections and millions of concurrent connections. The service reliability reaches 99.9%.

Scalability

Products for data storage, big data analytics, and message notifications need to be purchased or developed. The labor and equipment costs are high.

Using rules, the platform can connect to other HUAWEI CLOUD services such as DIS, DMS, OBS, MRS, SMN, and ROMA Connect. This facilitates storage, computing, and intelligent analysis of a large amount of device data.