TELUS invests $26.3mn in new partner Eseye

TELUS’ strategic investment arm, TELUS Ventures, is investing $26.3 million CAD (€17.35 million) in Eseye, a provider of Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity solutions.

The newly-launched TELUS Global Connect will also use Eseye’s AnyNet Connectivity Platform and multi-carrier eSIM, to provide cellular IoT connectivity to more than 700 networks in more than 190 countries.

TELUS Ventures’ investment is intended to drive Eseye’s product development, customer success and expand sales and marketing activities to meet growing enterprise demand for ubiquitous and reliable global cellular IoT connectivity.

Guildford, UK-based Eseye, was selected, says the company, “to enrich the TELUS IoT offering by integrating its pioneering AnyNet Connectivity Platform into the TELUS portfolio, providing a white-labelled global IoT connectivity solution that delivers ubiquitous, near 100% global connectivity to TELUS customers. As a result, TELUS’ IoT customers can seamlessly customise and manage global cellular device connectivity, with devices accessing more than 700 mobile networks in over 190 countries.”

Nick Earle, CEO of Eseye, comments, “This strategic partnership and investment in Eseye marks an inflection point for the company. Our many years at the leading edge of cellular IoT connectivity have seen us deliver value to more than 2,000 customers across the globe. Today, this partnership validates our technology platform and goal to provide ubiquitous, cellular connectivity to devices anywhere in the world. We’re excited to be working with TELUS to deliver this new global IoT capability to its customers.”

This partnership provides localised IoT network access in key markets around the world, enabling competitive pricing, superior network performance, lower latency for data and application function, and a host of additional network features. This includes high availability, continuity of service, and resiliency that are critical to IoT customers.

The AnyNet Connectivity Platform delivers options for integration into AWS and Microsoft Azure, providing exceptional market reach to convey connectivity management services to customers and developers integrating their own services on those cloud platforms. This capability will be crucial in meeting growing market demand for cloud virtualisation of services.

Empowering TELUS IoT customers with a platform designed to simplify global IoT connectivity, TELUS Global Connect offers a single SIM card with multi-IMSI carrier profiles, a single contract, and a single platform and connection partner to simplify and optimise global IoT deployments. TELUS’ investment in the eSIM partnership with Eseye enables a full spectrum of development potential in the near-term, including connecting and managing a range of OEM devices and alternative hardware platforms, enabling a significant return on customers’ investments in their mobile and fixed device fleets.

Mike Cihra

“We are constantly striving to provide better value and more flexibility to TELUS IoT customers, who already enjoy access to Canada’s largest dedicated IoT network. Now, TELUS Global Connect delivers a platform for customers to enjoy that same reliable connectivity beyond Canada’s borders in nearly every country on the planet,” adds Mike Cihra, TELUS vice president, IoT.

“More than a standalone platform, TELUS Global Connect fulfils customers’ demands for an enterprise-grade network operation powering their products and services from connectivity through to built-in security and world-class support. By simplifying access to global networks, TELUS Global Connect removes a barrier to international expansion for many businesses, contributing to a stronger economy for us all.

As evidence of our tireless commitment to help transform our customers’ organisations, our partnership for IoT connectivity management acknowledges the global nature and requirements of so many of our customers’ operations and is a clear signal of our intention to invest to satisfy those requirements, as our customers progress on their journeys to grow their businesses internationally.”

“TELUS is a leader in IoT connectivity and technologies in Canada, and this investment in Eseye will help to expand our IoT leadership across the globe, delivering our customers best-in-class IoT solutions,” says Rich Osborn, president and managing partner, TELUS Ventures. “Eseye’s innovative technologies and proven leadership in the IoT connectivity space make the company an excellent fit with TELUS and, together, brings a formidable strength to the global market.”

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Paysafe uses Snowflake to power cloud-based approach to data and analytics

Integrated payments platform, Paysafe, is leveraging technology from Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, to achieve meaningful data insights and deliver more informed and enhanced customer experiences by tapping into Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) data models. The announcement supports Paysafe’s transition to a fully cloud-based approach for its payment services including its Skrill

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Infineon appoints Constanze Hufenbecher to new transformation role

Infineon Technologies AG is creating a new management board position of chief digital transformation officer (CDTO), effective from April 15th, 2021. The supervisory board has appointed Constanze Hufenbecher to the post. Through this step, Infineon is expanding the management board from four to five members. In addition, at its meeting in May, the supervisory board

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Algorithmia and Arthur to offer end-to-end AI lifecycle management

Arthur, the machine learning monitoring company, and Algorithmia, the industry provider in MLOps and model management, are partnering to bring Arthur’s monitoring capabilities to organisations that have deployed their ML models on the Algorithmia platform. With the new integration, Algorithmia customers will be able to monitor their models for data drift, algorithmic bias, and model

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Hamburg deploys oneM2M smart city standards to go greener

Whether one is dealing with a manufacturing plant or a smart city, the architecture of a distributed Internet of Things (IoT) system depends on several design considerations, says Ingo Freise, software architect at Deutsche Telekom. One is the ability to combine legacy sub-systems, such as a final-assembly cell, with greenfield deployments such as an image

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Hamburg deploys oneM2M smart city standards to go greener

Whether one is dealing with a manufacturing plant or a smart city, the architecture of a distributed Internet of Things (IoT) system depends on several design considerations, says Ingo Freise, software architect at Deutsche Telekom.

One is the ability to combine legacy sub-systems, such as a final-assembly cell, with greenfield deployments such as an image processing system for quality control. Another design consideration relates to the challenge of combining multiple connectivity and data management technologies, with the added complication that these are sourced from multiple vendors.

Deutsche Telekom dealt with such issues when working on the MySMARTLife project in a consortium with the cities of Nantes, Hamburg, and Helsinki. Naturally, our involvement in the project focused on the city of Hamburg.

The city’s platform, based on a standard developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), is a common starting point for many cities. It supports the geo-location, surface planning and activities that municipal agencies deal with on a day-to-day basis.

An open standards and interoperable framework

The city of Hamburg operates under a transparency law that requires all data from public sources to be published. This ranges from static data, such as school opening times, to live data streams. An example of the latter is the status of electric vehicle charging stations.

Our solution addressed two issues. One was the issue of sourcing and publishing city data, going beyond legacy, geo-spatial sources. The second issue was to make it easy for data users to access data through an API (application program interface). While the existing Hamburg system included an API, our analysis identified the need for one with enhanced capabilities.

New features would enable a system administrator to assign access policies to end-point devices and data sources. An enhanced API would empower data providers to manage access and security at a granular level with different types of data consumer. These requirements illustrate how a basic API can be enhanced to address operational and digital transformation needs.

Foundations for digital transformation

Since our team focuses on applied innovation, we did not want to invent a new technology or IoT platform. We evaluated FiWARE and oneM2M specifications, eventually preferring oneM2M which had the added benefit of aligning with our Java expertise and Scrum organising methodology.

In addition to being an open and internationally recognised standard, oneM2M is a middleware technology. It sits in a horizontal layer between IoT applications on the upper level and a lower level of connected devices and other data sources. oneM2M defines a standard set of tools for building interoperable IoT systems.

Examples include tools for connectivity management, subscription management, security, and device management. The last of these is a good example where oneM2M avoids reinvention and reuses existing technology in the form of the LWM2M standard.

The Deutsche Telekom team worked with the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB) who built a server to collect city data from parking lots and traffic lights. My team developed a oneM2M data management platform to gather data from other sources and to publish it to third party users. We built a bridge between the two systems using an interworking proxy entity (IPE), another standardised capability in the oneM2M toolkit.

Ingo Freise

This architecture gathers city data from many different sources and to combine with the primarily geospatial data from Hamburg’s in-house data platform.

This is an elegant way to bring together several brownfield systems and gradually add greenfield sensor deployment and data sources. It is also valuable for data users who now have a single way to access a wide and growing range of city data.

As factory owners, city administrations and their service partners embark on Industrie 4.0, smart city, and digital transformation initiatives, system architects need to plan for interoperable and extensible systems using open standards, such as oneM2M.

An important design principle for service providers, system integrators and IT departments is to enable seamless interworking between new and legacy systems to work across departmental and operational boundaries.

The author is Ingo Freise, software architect, Deutsche Telekom.

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Siemens Mobility to develop Mobility as a Service (MaaS) platform for the Netherlands

Siemens Mobility will sign a contract in the Netherlands with the joint venture RiVier (NS, HTM and RET) to develop a countrywide, intelligent Mobility as a Service (MaaS) platform.

The MaaS platform to be delivered in the autumn will allow providers to integrate travel planning. The technological core of the MaaS platform is supplied by Siemens Mobility subsidiaries Hacon and eos.uptrade.

“The pandemic is changing our behaviour,” says RET director Maurice Unck on behalf of RiVier. “We work, learn and travel more flexibly in time, place and choice of means of transport. That is why we are investing in the best travel options for consumers right now. We lower the threshold to easily plan, book and pay for a trip with multiple modes of transport.”

“Smart applications that can integrate and coordinate different modes of transportation makes the idea of seamless travel from the first mile to the last a reality. Having the ability to choose from the full spectrum of mobility options to plan, schedule and pay for trips, significantly improves the travel experience and enhances overall quality of life.

We are pleased to have the opportunity to provide our intelligent solutions and deliver a MaaS system that will enable mobility in the Netherlands to be more comfortable, sustainable, and efficient,” says Andre Rodenbeck, CEO rail infrastructure at Siemens Mobility.

Michael Frankenberg

“Creating the perfect passenger experience requires cooperation across the industry. It is inspiring to see how NS, RET and HTM are joining forces to make the mobility landscape in the Netherlands even more attractive. We at Hacon and eos.uptrade are very proud to bring our know-how and solutions to this trail-blazing project”, says Michael Frankenberg, CEO of Hacon and head of intermodal solutions at Siemens Mobility.

The platform is being developed as an open ecosystem that can be connected to existing apps from the MaaS providers NS, RET and HTM. The initiators call on other mobility providers to join so that traveling by public transport, bicycle sharing, car, scooter, and taxi, can be better connected and more convenient. Through the MaaS platform, mobility providers can draw attention to their services and better tailor them to the needs of travelers, while also optimising their fleet management.

In addition to efficiency and passenger comfort, MaaS also provides eco-friendly and sustainability benefits. As public transport or shared solutions become more attractive, travelers will only use their cars where it is of most added value to them.

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Pipers Crisps deploy Microlise route planning & optimisation solution to future proof its business

Pipers Crisps that retail across Britain’s pubs, hotels, delis, farm shops, garden centres, museums and other specialist outlets, is deploying the fully integrated Microlise Planning & Optimisation, Journey Management and ePOD solution across its fleet.

With the solution in place, Pipers Crisps expect to manage route planning, order management, schedule execution and proof of delivery capture through a single platform, streamlining processes and delivering efficiencies.

Microlise’s Planning & Optimisation product, launched last year, delivers highly accurate and efficient routes as well as providing flexibility for users to adjust plans by making manual adjustments when required. Its Journey Management will provide visibility of vehicles against planned routes and schedules, through airport-style arrival and departure boards, and a Schedule Execution Board.

The paperless Microlise Proof of Delivery (POD) is said to reduce administration load, while creating and digitally storing proof of delivery documentation. Additional features include driver communication, access to site notes and manifest information, job dispatch and schedule adherence.

Microlise is established in the food distribution sector, with solutions already supporting many of the UK’s grocery retail organisations and food logistics providers.

According to Faye Ward, logistics manager for Pipers Crisps, “Our interaction with Microlise through the presales, sales and product management stages was very positive and we know we can expect proactive support.

Above all, we are confident in the system’s capacity to deliver increased customer value and service levels and to positively impact on our business as we continue to streamline and future proof our operations.”

“Piper’s Crisps has a keen focus on fleet efficiencies which is commendable,” says Microlise CEO, Nadeem Raza. “We are pleased to be providing additional tools to manage, monitor and positively impact on its operation.”

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