Tackle Service Robotics Challenges with a Global IoT Solution

One of the primary challenges is ensuring mobility. Designing a robot for autonomous movement is complex, and maintaining its connectivity and mobility introduces numerous unpredictable factors for engineering teams.

Cybersecurity also presents significant challenges. With robots built from costly, state-of-the-art hardware and tasked with handling sensitive data, they become attractive targets for cyber threats and vandalism.

Moreover, service robots are expected to deliver high performance with minimal errors. This expectation is challenging because a robot's effectiveness hinges on its mobility, connectivity, and security—failure in any of these areas can compromise the robot's functionality in the user's perspective.

Fortunately, a comprehensive solution exists to address these concerns: global IoT solutions partners. Companies can leverage global IoT partnerships. These collaborations can enhance mobility, connectivity, and cybersecurity, ensuring that robots operate efficiently and securely. By integrating advanced technologies and sharing resources, businesses can improve the performance and reliability of service robots, ultimately meeting user expectations and reducing operational risks.

Three ways a global IoT solution can help robotics projects succeed

1. Mobility through cellular IoT connectivity

Cellular IoT connectivity is an excellent solution for robotics in today's market. The infrastructure for cellular is already in place throughout most of the major marketplaces, so unless the robots are going to be deployed in a truly remote or underdeveloped location, they'll almost always be within the range of a cellular network.

Global, non-steered cellular connectivity is ideal for robotics projects. A global IoT connectivity solution allows businesses to deploy robots anywhere without having to manage different network providers or limit service robots to a specific country.

Non-steered connectivity provides robots with the best connection available, no matter where they're being used. Rather than keeping robots tied to a primary network, non-steered connectivity allows devices to switch from one network to the next automatically — even if that network is different from the business's primary connectivity partner. This keeps robots on the best available network at all times without interruptions.

2. Network-level security

Partnering with a global IoT provider offers robust security and reassurance. Operators can deploy network-level encryption and security protocols, such as private APN, different IP models, to safeguard robots regardless of their location.

This approach alleviates the burden on engineering teams from developing their own network security solutions, thereby saving both time and resources. 

3. An all-in-one solution

A global IoT solution will significantly simplify project operations, regardless of size or scale. An IoT Connectivity Management Platform enables a business to manage its devices' connectivity, monitor their performance through key KPIs, and track their status globally, making handling backend processes far easier.

An all-in-one global IoT solution can also help avoid financial complexity when it comes to billing. Instead of having to negotiate complicated contracts with networks in different regions and countries (which are all going to have slightly varying laws and regulations), the business can work with a single network provider that has already negotiated all of these contracts on their behalf, displaying them all in one bill.

This frees up the robotics team to work on areas such as customer service and education, innovation, bug testing, and more.

Make Velos IoT your global robotics partner today

Velos IoT is a reliable global provider of IoT connectivity solutions that is committed to advancing the industry. With our extensive experience in IoT from its inception, we are eager to bring our expertise to the robotics sector, having formed strong partnerships with some service robot companies.

We have 700+ roaming networks in over 200 countries and territories, cutting-edge security solutions, and an IoT connectivity management platform - Nomad, that you can use to manage all of your connected devices in one single platform. 

Our IoT eSIM solutions are perfectly designed to streamline global robotics projects. With our ULTIMATeSIM, you can equip every robot in your production line without concern for its deployment location. Should you need to switch networks later, this transition can be managed remotely. There's no need for manual SIM swaps between networks; everything is handled over the air.

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If you're looking for a global robotics solution, Velos IoT has got you covered. Request a free starter kit to get connected today or reach out to our IoT experts to discuss further.