Press Release
AT&T and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) are rolling out several innovative Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to let businesses better compete in a data-driven world. The solutions were announced at the annual AWS re:Invent 2017 Conference.
The 2 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 working 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. Activities like 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 it’s 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 2018.1
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. The keys, which are required for communicating with the AWS cloud, are used to encrypt data sessions between the device and AWS services.
Device manufacturers can also use 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.
