WHY SORACOM
Embedding Small-Scale Communications in the Product and Letting the Cloud Do the Heavy Lifting
Thanks to SORACOM Air and Beam, Whill has been able to drastically cut down on development time and keep battery consumption down. By changing routing settings, when content changes they can easily change the server-side setup and toggle the connection in the cloud.
Net-net is that Whill achieved a 30%+ reduction in power usage by using Soracom.
Whill also makes use of the IMSI IDs of the SIMs and the timestamp feature. They realized that sending the machine’s serial number was a waste of data. To that end, they identified devices by the internal IMSI ID on each SIM, which they then check against the serial number on the cloud in Soracom.
Services in use
• SORACOM Air: smart connectivity for IoT
• SORACOM Beam: IoT protocol conversion