LAS VEGAS, Nov. 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- AT&T1 and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS)
are rolling out several innovative Internet of Things (IoT)
solutions to enable businesses to better compete in a data-driven
world. The solutions were announced at the annual AWS
re:Invent 2017 Conference.
The two companies are collaborating to make it effortless for
enterprise customers to deploy IoT solutions so that businesses can
improve operations and manage large numbers of devices
worldwide.
"These new solutions bring enterprise customers best-in-breed
solutions to manage IoT assets wherever they are," said
Mike Troiano, Vice President,
Internet of Things Solutions, AT&T. "We're pleased to build
upon our longstanding relationship with AWS to deliver these new
features to business customers through the IoT and cloud."
LTE-M Button
AT&T and AWS are collaborating on a ground-breaking cellular
LTE-M Button that operates on AT&T's nationwide LTE-M network
and utilizes the newly announced AWS IoT 1-Click service. Such
activities as ordering office supplies or submitting service
requests will be as simple as the push of a button.
"We have a great strategic relationship with
AT&T, especially our aligned focus to make IoT solutions
simple," said Dirk Didascalou, Vice President of IoT, Amazon Web
Services, Inc. "The AT&T LTE-M Button supported on the newly
announced AWS IoT 1-Click service is a great example of how
our customers can use AWS Lambda and AWS IoT with minimal
configuration to achieve business results. We look forward to our
continued work with AT&T to drive innovation and help customers
with their IoT applications."
Anticipated to be available in early 2018, the LTE-M Button is
easy to configure and deploy without the need for Wi-Fi, and is
designed for enterprises and developers to easily integrate their
operations/workflows with AWS IoT, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB,
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and many other AWS
solutions.
AT&T is offering a promotional price of $29.99 per LTE-M Button for the first 5,000 LTE-M
Buttons sold, starting in the first quarter of
2018.2
Certificates on SIM
AT&T is working with G+D Mobile Security to develop a
solution that secures "device to cloud" connectivity using AWS
certificates stored inside SIMs during production. Required for
communicating with the AWS cloud, the keys are used to encrypt data
sessions between the device and AWS services.
Device manufacturers will be able to utilize the keys and
credentials embedded on the SIM to authenticate to AWS IoT. Device
manufacturers can manage and update (over the air) the
certificates. New certificates are downloaded remotely for highly
secure and efficient management of devices in the field.
The AT&T and G+D Mobile Security SIM-based solution is
designed to enable deployment of devices provisioned with this
feature with minimal to no hardware or logistics changes.
Additional AT&T-AWS Collaboration
AT&T will soon launch an AT&T IoT OBDII Kit that
provides AWS customers with access to the AT&T Asset Management
Operations Center (AMOC). AMOC provides AWS customers with a
packaged solution to monitor equipment, vehicles and enterprise
assets via AWS.
Earlier this year, we introduced a dedicated AT&T IoT
Starter kit, powered by AWS.
AT&T Asset Management Operations Center for AWS and the
AT&T IoT OBDII Kit will be available via AT&T's IoT
Marketplace, a comprehensive online resource for businesses to
purchase and provision IoT solutions. The AT&T IoT Starter Kit
is available for sale on amazon.com. The LTE-M Button and
Certificates on SIM are also expected to be available on the
AT&T IoT Marketplace.
1About AT&T
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of the world's largest providers of pay TV. We have TV customers in
the U.S. and 11 Latin American countries. Nearly 3.5 million
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2Promotional offer is limited to the first 5,000
units sold (whether to one customer or multiple customers) starting
in the 1st quarter of 2018. Regular pricing of $34.99 will apply to all units thereafter.
**Claim based on the Nielsen Certified Data Network Score. Score
includes data reported by wireless consumers in the Nielsen Mobile
Insights survey, network measurements from Nielsen Mobile
Performance and Nielsen Drive Test Benchmarks for Q2 + Q3 2017
across 121 markets
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