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Accessing Your Devices Remotely

How do you troubleshoot problems once a device is deployed to the market? With Soracom, you can carry out maintenance and debug remotely – without setting up any relay servers or installing agent software on the actual hardware.

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  • Secure, on-demand remote access
  • Capture packets of IP traffic
  • Remote access with code or console
  • Ping your devices

Access from anywhere

Secure, on-demand remote access

Soracom makes it easy to perform remote maintenance, troubleshooting, or other typical remote access tasks on your devices, wherever they’re deployed in the world.

Connect directly to a remote device

Remotely access a device using SSH or Remote Desktop (RDP) to change its settings.

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Access device’s web-based interface

Connect to a remote router or gateway’s admin page to download its data, or view real-time imagery from a security monitoring device.

Remote Packet Capture

Capture packets of IP traffic

Inspect the network behavior of your devices even if your device or server doesn’t normally support packet capturing.

Troubleshoot abnormal device behavior

Inspect the network traffic between your cellular device and IP networks to help identify the source of any connectivity problems.

Identify high data usage

Capture packets to find out what requests your device is making, and figure out what the data usage was for.

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Made for developers

Remote access with code or console

You can access your devices remotely either through Soracom’s easy-to-use console or with our powerful REST APIs.

Every element of the Soracom IoT platform has been built from the ground up, specifically for developers.

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IoT Management console
Soracom API

Remote device pinging

Ping your devices

Send an ICMP ping message from the Soracom platform to any of your IoT hardware – with absolutely no device-side setup required.

Check that a device can connect

Send a ping to quickly confirm if a device is capable of connecting to cellular or not.

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Check for network bottlenecks

You can inspect the amount of time it takes for a ping message to be sent and for a response to be received.

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Managing a Network of IoT Devices at Scale

Soracom makes it easy to manage a vast, blended network of IoT devices – no matter where in the world they are deployed.

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