AT&T and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are launching several IoT products for businesses. The products were announced at the annual AWS re:Invent 2017 Conference. The new products include a mobile LTE-M Button that operates on AT&T's nationwide LTE-M network and uses the newly announced AWS IoT 1-Click service. AT&T is also teaming up with G+D Mobile Security to develop a platform that secures 'device to cloud' connectivity using AWS certificates stored inside SIMs during production.
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 products, the companies said. AT&T is offering a promotional price of USD 29.99 per LTE-M Button for the first 5,000 LTE-M Buttons sold, starting in the first quarter of 2018.
Required for communicating with the AWS cloud, the certificates are used to encrypt data sessions between the device and AWS services. Device manufacturers will be able to use the AWS certificates 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 product is designed to enable deployment of devices provisioned with this feature with minimal to no hardware or logistics changes.
AT&T also 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 platform to monitor equipment, vehicles and enterprise assets via AWS.
Earlier in 2017, AT&T 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, an online resource for businesses to purchase and provision IoT products. 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.
