SAN JOSE — Cisco announced Thursday advancements to its Cisco IoT Control Center that will enable service provider partners to offer optimized management of cellular IoT environments and new 5G use-cases.
According to Cisco’s 2020 Annual Internet Report, machine-to-machine connections are expected to rise 19% and account for 50% of all connections by 2023. In its news release on Thursday, Cisco says new wireless technologies, such as 5G and Wi-Fi 6, will lead to new advanced Industrial IoT (IIoT) use-cases and will give service providers the tools to create competitive cellular IoT offerings for their customers.
The new enhancements to Cisco IoT Control Center (formerly Jasper Control Center) include:
- Using machine learning to improve management: With visibility into 3 billion events every day, Cisco IoT Control Center uses the industry’s broadest visibility to enable machine learning models to quickly identify anomalies and address issues before they impact a customer. Service providers can also identify and alert customers of errant devices, allowing for greater endpoint security and control.
- Smart billing to optimize rate plans: Service providers can improve customer satisfaction by enabling smart billing to automatically optimize rate plans. Policies can also be created to proactively send customer notifications should usage changes or rate plans need to be updated to help save enterprises money.
- Support for global supply chains: SIM portability is an enterprise requirement to support complex supply chains spanning multiple service providers and geographies. It is time-consuming and requires integrations between many different service providers and vendors, driving up costs for both. Cisco IoT Control Center now provides eSIM as a service, enabling a true turnkey SIM portability solution to deliver fast, reliable, cost-effective SIM handoffs between service providers.
With the introduction of 5G, use-cases from low-power to the most demanding requirements will become possible, Cisco says. Industrial environments can benefit from the advanced IoT capabilities presented by 5G, with use-cases such as flexible manufacturing, higher throughput, and autonomous vehicles. Cisco IoT Control Center has taken steps towards 5G readiness to incubate and promote high-value 5G business use-cases that customers can easily adopt, the release says.
