Orange Business Services Helps Viasat Improve Driver Safety and Lower Insurance Premiums with Worldwide IoT Connectivity
January 18 2017 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
- Viasat supplies telematics products
for insurance and fleet management
- Orange provides dedicated IoT portal
and connectivity to improve driver experience
Orange Business Services has announced a three-year,
multi-million Euro contract with Viasat Group for a global IoT
roaming service for up to 350,000 SIM cards. Orange IoT
connectivity will allow Viasat to provide global coverage across a
number of markets, for services that include insurance, fleet,
security and safety, and telematics.
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Viasat uses Orange Business Services IoT
connectivity for a range of its products including the innovative
automotive location system BluBox. (Photo: Business Wire)
Headquartered in Italy, Viasat specializes in the design,
manufacture and supply of telematics products and services to fleet
and insurance industries. Its systems incorporate on-board
telematics and satellite tracking information technologies.
Orange provides robust IoT connectivity that allows Viasat’s
remote telematics boxes to send and receive data, SMS and voice.
Combined with a satellite positioning service, Viasat is able to
provide a comprehensive insurance solution. The SIM cards are
roaming-enabled, which provides global coverage and are reinforced
to withstand vibration and high temperatures.
Dedicated IoT portalOrange also provides an IoT
management platform that allows Viasat customers to manage and
update their own SIM cards. The portal allows for a range of
options, including ordering, suspending and reactivating SIMs,
setting alarms on data consumption, and blocking SIM cards if data
thresholds are crossed. The platform can also be integrated with
the customer’s back-end system to provide detailed reports and
retrieve billing information.
The Orange IoT connectivity will allow Viasat’s customers all
over the world to take full advantage of the range of services
offered, improving the quality of the driving experience. This
translates into increased safety for the occupants of the vehicles
and for the vehicles itself. The extra security will also lower the
average costs of insurance premiums.
“Our telematics solutions need global coverage to provide a
complete service for our customers in the fleet and insurance
industries. Among our partners, we selected Orange Business
Services for IoT connectivity because of their wide coverage, flat
rate pricing across the EU and comprehensive international
support,” said Massimo Getto, vice president and CFO, Viasat
Group.
“Viasat needed multi-roaming capabilities to cover 100 per cent
of its markets and an international partner with global reach and
support, capable of managing a very high number of SIM cards. With
our full-service Datavenue offer, we can contribute to an improved
driver experience, all while supporting Viasat’s business,” said
Helmut Reisinger, executive vice president International, Orange
Business Services.
The Orange Business Services IoT connectivity service is part of
Datavenue, a modular IoT and analytics solution. To enable advanced
analysis and decision-making, the Datavenue solution encompasses
the selection of relevant data and objects, their reliable and
secure connection, and their management in the customer information
system environment. A global team of more than 700 Orange
data-scientists and engineers design and develop these innovative
services. Orange already supports over 10 million active objects
across a variety of sectors, including Smart Cities, Healthcare,
Automotive and Manufacturing. The launch of Datavenue reaffirms the
Orange commitment to supporting businesses with their digital
transformation.
Read more about Viasat IoT story
at: http://www.orange-business.com/en/viasat-group
About ViasatViasat Group is the European leader in
satellite-based security systems that incorporate the very latest
telematics information technologies to guarantee absolute security
for the vehicle and its occupants. It is one of the leading
companies in the on-board telematics and satellite tracking sector
in Europe not only for the number of customers but also for the
number of countries reached. Today it operates directly in
countries that are generally considered the European countries
where these technologies are used on a widespread basis (Italy,
United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Poland, Benelux and
Eastern Europe) and has a network of local dealers in over 40
countries. The new company organization, focused on the strategic
areas of its business, ensures considerable operating flexibility,
as well as close monitoring of all the fundamental stages in the
development of products and services. The extreme reliability and
security of the Viasat Group solutions, together with an
advantageous range of services and agreements with leading
insurance companies, make our company an ideal partner for your
business.
About Orange Business ServicesOrange Business Services,
the B2B branch of the Orange Group, and its 21,000 employees, is
focused on supporting the digital transformation of multinational
enterprises and French SMEs across five continents. Orange Business
Services is not only an infrastructure operator, but also a
technology integrator and a value-added service provider. It offers
companies digital solutions that help foster collaboration within
their teams (collaborative workspaces and mobile workspaces),
better serve their customers (enriched customer relations and
business innovation), and support their projects (enriched
connectivity, flexible IT and cyberdefense). The integrated
technologies that Orange Business Services offer range from
Software Defined Networks (SDN/NFV), Big Data and IoT, to cloud
computing, unified communications and collaboration, as well as
cybersecurity. Orange Business Services customers include over
3,000 renowned multinational corporations at an international level
and over two million professionals, companies and local communities
in France.
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