How Iot Tracks Global Assets Affordably 

It was once the case that a multinational's offshore offices and assets could only be managed by local staff. Now, the Internet of Things (IoT) has democratized international oversight by allowing machine to talk to machine (M2M). 

A strategic overview

Companies can check, for instance, how its fleet of cars are being run. Are they still fuel-efficient, or is a certain staffer's mileage excessive and so risking a driver fatigue related accident? 

They can see if expensive assets,  like photocopiers, printers and computer servers are precisely where they should be. And with smart meters they can find out if the Boston office, say, is eating ten times the electricity of the Amsterdam one.  

Predicting & controlling costs 

But do companies l have to pay top dollar for the privilege of adopting such a solution? Most IoT/M2M systems use a tracking or monitoring device that uses a SIM card to send its logged data to a backend M2M server at the company's base, which means a cost to the business. 

This works just like a regular cell phone,  incurring roaming charges whenever the asset moves from one network to another. That means you’re in the business of coping with a thicket of regional cell carriers and their widely varying tariffs, which would be a nightmare to predict and control costs. 

FastSIM 

With a 1GLOBAL IoT-specific "FastSIM" card in the asset, however, things are very different. Like its global cell phone network counterpart, the FastSIM device automatically senses its location when switched on and connects to a local 1GLOBAL partner network virtually worldwide. So, the IoT device is seen as just another local subscriber with all the high signal quality and cost benefits that brings. 

This also makes it easy for firms to reallocate assets from one country to another. If a car or a photocopier is moved from, say, a Berlin office to London, the FastSIM simply connects to the London 1GLOBAL affiliate on startup, so there's no need for fiddly SIM changes to be undertaken. 

By allowing machine to talk to machine affordably, 1GLOBAL can empower companies to acquire a wealth of actionable infrastructure knowledge they never had before, and get it with ease.