Chicago-based cellular IoT firm Hologram has updated its global eUICC SIM to include native integrations with carriers in North America and network fallback for uninterrupted global connectivity.

The combination of carrier offerings and automatic fallback improves performance for IoT applications and gives peace of mind with multi-network redundancy.

The Hyper SIM enables direct integrations with carriers in the USA and Canada and the launch of network fallback intelligently keeps devices connected.

Millions of IoT devices leverage global roaming agreements as they offer easy to deploy, cost-effective global access. But with increasing restrictions on global connectivity and more specific IoT connectivity requirements, traditional SIMs offering roaming profiles are no longer enough. The latest Hyper SIM delivers direct native access to carriers in the USA and Canada, ensuring global IoT deployments have operator guaranteed network access.

Leveraging native profiles, users benefit from traffic prioritisation, low latency and high throughput IoT connectivity to power high-bandwidth applications such as video monitoring and streaming, industrial robotics, and autonomous drones.

In addition to performance, IoT applications such as payment processing, security monitoring and micromobility require uninterrupted connectivity that is resilient to network failures. The Hyper SIM includes network fallback, an intelligent profile management agent that automatically switches eUICC profiles when native connectivity is not available.

With network fallback, Hyper SIMs can connect with native profiles as their primary connectivity source without sacrificing the benefits of multi-carrier and route redundancy afforded by global roaming profiles. Should a device lose its connection to a native carrier, network fallback automatically switches to the backup roaming profile, ensuring the device remains connected.

“When we launched Hyper in 2020, we turned connectivity into software, offering the first eUICC IoT global SIM,” said Ben Forgan, CEO of Hologram. “We’re bringing that innovation to the next level to address the needs of the sophisticated IoT applications we’re seeing today. Whether streaming video or autonomous drones, the next generation of Hyper gives connected devices the low latency delivered from native performance with the reliability and flexibility of global roaming they now require.”

Hologram provides cellular connectivity for IoT devices and the software for the people who manage them. With Hologram, SIM cards automatically switch network access to the best available network across more than 470 carriers in more than 190 countries.