Soracom is partnering US firm Simetric to accelerate IoT deployments and drive operational efficiencies at scale.

Japanese firm Soracom will begin extending services and capabilities to existing and prospective customers by partnering with Georgia-based Simetric to meet the growing demand from users deploying IoT devices.

The partnership expands Soracom’s offering, strengthening what is already a global cellular IoT connectivity offering. The partnership extends the value of IoT and edge device connectivity management across all carriers without having to rip and replace any technology and requires no additional IT investments.

Soracom and Simetric recognise that building connected experiences is difficult enough without adding needless complexity and expense. This makes the partnership a natural fit to serve the needs of global enterprises as they deploy connected services.

“The Soracom platform was designed from the ground up to accelerate speed to market and ensure success at scale in IoT,” said Kenta Yasukawa, Soracom CTO. “That’s why we offer global cellular connectivity built on a fully-virtualised, cloud-native core with low-latency access worldwide. Simetric shares our vision for a cloud-agnostic, bearer-agnostic, hardware-agnostic IoT that customers can operate through a single pane of glass or API. The more complex their IoT deployment, the more customers will benefit from what Soracom and Simetric can offer together.”

Allen Boone, Simetric CEO, added: “What we see in the IoT world is that growing companies are looking to manage their connectivity all up. As they engage with new carriers offering them not only the coverage, they need but also the technology and flexibility their businesses require, that brings the challenge of how they manage these new deployments alongside their legacy environment. By partnering with leading connectivity providers in IoT like Soracom we allow clients to select the vendors that can accelerate their strategy while providing them with the necessary tools to seamlessly manage across their entire connected ecosystem.”

The breadth and volume of IoT use cases frequently require enterprises to maintain multiple IoT providers while managing back-end integrations into cloud platforms. Soracom and Simetric’s combined value lets clients accelerate deployment and ensures efficient operations at scale.

Soracom clients seeking the ability to manage legacy deployments can benefit from Simetric’s unified lifecycle management capabilities and cross-carrier aggregated insights. Simetric clients can now use Soracom’s global connectivity and network management technology without having to rip and replace their existing footprint.

Both organisations have a common mission to help companies gain control across their connected ecosystem, to facilitate growth and to remove process complexity.

Soracom is a technology partner to more than 20,000 start-ups, SMBs and enterprises, connecting more than five million IoT devices globally.

Simetric is a holistic IoT lifecycle management platform that simplifies complex data streams from large-scale, connected devices into a single-pane format that can be accessed, understood and acted on in near real time. Simetric enables users of any size or vertical to take advantage of IoT deployments across wireless networks, assembling over 1000 APIs and integrations with 225 global carriers into a single management pane. Users can manage their IoT and edge connected devices regardless of size of deployment, across all carriers and platforms.