As for Vodafone's global platform, it is growing by 25% every year and already has 99 million active M2M connections . 1,500 companies are Vodafone's customers in the IoT sector, 200 petabytes of data are transferred every month through this platform.
What is IoT Monitor from Vodafone?
According to Mykola Traknov, Director of the Digital Solutions and Platforms Department at Vodafone Ukraine, the IoT market in Ukraine is growing dramatically — by 50% every year . Organizations use IoT devices as alarms for protecting premises, for tracking transport movements, and for receiving various information from industrial systems. But how to oman number data manage hundreds or even thousands of SIM cards installed in these devices? This is where the IoT Monitor service comes to the rescue . As you know, Vodafone has been working in the Internet of Things market for a long time, so it has created its own ecosystem and gained considerable experience in this area.
Mykola Traknov: "The difference between IoT and M2M is that the Internet of Things is an ecosystem of different systems and technologies. And the IoT Monitor platform provides the ability to manage this ecosystem."
Mykola Traknov: "The difference between IoT and M2M is that the Internet of Things is a convergence of different systems and technologies. And the IoT Monitor platform provides the ability to manage such an ecosystem."
IoT Monitor can be an important step towards building an IoT infrastructure, emphasizes Mykola Traknov. Currently, the number of M2M connections in Ukraine at the operator is calculated as a few percent of the total number of subscribers. But in 5-7 years it may exceed the number of traditional subscribers of the company. Thus, according to forecasts, in 2020 4.5 million Internet of Things devices will be installed in Ukraine.
Ukraine – connected devices forecast
Ukraine and Eastern European countries – forecast by number of connected devices
What problems does a client encounter when building an IoT network? These include the lack of the ability to manage SIM cards in batches, the lack of control over the remaining SMS and MB in the package, overpayment for using the Internet with one card when there is still a service package left on the other, and the lack of information about the device losing communication.