IoT Connect
Open your door to the world of IoT
With DNA’s IoT Connect subscriptions and Control Center management portal you can manage your IoT devices easily and efficiently. To get started, you can easily explore the possibilities of IoT with DNA IoT Starter Kit. IoT Connect is a part of the Telenor IoT portfolio that further extends DNA IoT Connect offering.
IoT Connect subscriptions are designed for data transfer between sensors, devices and systems in mobile network. DNA’s IoT subscriptions also work in NB-IoT and LTE-M devices. With DNA IoT Connect subscriptions, you also get access to the market leading platform that allows managing subscriptions’ lifecycle and optimizing connectivity costs. DNA Control Center provides a comprehensive view of all your IoT subscriptions, their data usage and associated services.
Select the best service for your needs out of our three alternatives. All accommodate massive to critical low latency IoT applications across various verticals and use cases and can be extended with additional capabilities over time as needs evolve.
Choose the best alternative for your needs
Essential
Cost efficient solution for simple use cases with predictable data amounts. Serves well basic connectivity management needs allowing businesses to connect, operate and monitor their connected devices.
Advantage
Serves more complex use cases with massive and varying data amounts providing support for more extensive subscription and cost management, automation, monitoring and external integration. Advantage supports also international roaming.
Enterprise
For large and complex IoT solutions. Customised access to 500+ networks across the world with only one point of contact. This is for global enterprises needing a proactive partner who can provide support and scalability to millions of devices anywhere in the world, throughout the connected solution’s life cycle.
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Essential Advantage Enterprise Service provider DNA DNA Telenor Applicability
- Predictable data amounts
- Simple devices and use cases
- Basic connectivity management
- Limited integration capabilities
- Limited roaming options
- Massive and varying data amounts
- Demanding use cases
- Extensive subscription management and automation
- Extensive integration capabilities
- Wide roaming coverage
- Predictable, massive and varying data amounts
- Demanding and global use cases
- Extensive subscription management and customization
- Demanding integration needs
- Maximal roaming coverage
Subscription management DNA Control Center (Cisco)
DNA Control Center (Cisco)
Ericsson IoT Accelerator (IoTA)
Mobile networks
2G / 3G / 4G / NB-IoT / LTE-M
2G / 3G / 4G / NB-IoT / LTE-M / 5G
2G / 3G / 4G / NB-IoT / LTE-M
SIM Mini, Micro, Nano, Embedded-SIM
(2FF, 3FF, 4FF, MFF2)Mini, Micro, Nano, Embedded-SIM
(2FF, 3FF, 4FF, MFF2)Mini, Micro, Nano, Embedded-SIM, eSIM (eUICC)
(2FF, 3FF, 4FF, MFF2)
APN/VPN APN (Shared/Customer specific)
APN (Shared/Customer specific)
APN (Shared/Customer specific)
VPN
Customer support Mon - Fri from 8 am to 4 pm
Mon - Fri from 8 am to 4 pm
24/7 Service Operations Center
Automation features Add-On Service
Automation rules for subscription and cost management included
Automation rules for subscription and cost management included
API support REST, PUSH
REST, SOAP, PUSH
REST, SOAP, PUSH
Roaming Limited
Global
National, Global
SMS, Voice Add-On Service
Yes
Yes (+SMSC as additional service)
Order DNA IoT Starter Kit and test connections!
Begin your IoT journey today by ordering an IoT Starter Kit which includes everything you need to connect and manage your devices on the DNA network. You can test 2G, 3G, 4G, NB-IoT and LTE-M connections with DNA IoT Starter Kit. The test period lasts two months. Need trial coverage outside of Europe, please contact iotconnectivity@dna.fi.
DNA IoT Starter Kit includes:
Subscriptions
- 5 DNA M2M SIM cards
- 20 MB per month / SIM card
- 20 SMS Messages per SIM per month
Real-time Testing Tools
- Test-as-you-build for fast, quality development
- Visibility into device and network behaviour
- Diagnostics and troubleshooting help
Full Access to DNA Control Center
- Complete suite of developer tools
- User logins for everyone in your team
- Same environment for testing and deployment
Excellent Developer Support
- Developer guidelines
- Access to APIs
DNA Control Center
With DNA IoT Connect subscriptions, you also get access to the DNA Control Center – a management portal that enables you to view all of your IoT subscriptions and their associated services. Via this user interface, you can for instance manage your subscriptions, supervise their use, and order new subscriptions.
DNA Control Center consists of the following components:
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You can monitor your subscriptions’ status and data usage in real time and manage costs by selecting the most suitable data packages.
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The management portal enables you to monitor subscription invoicing in almost real time. You can also print invoicing reports.
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Thanks to its extensive automation features, DNA Control Center can manage costs on your behalf and notify designated people or organisations in the event of any faults. Automation is set up using easy rules.
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DNA Control Center provides analytics services that will help you to identify any problems with the functionality of your subscriptions, to better understand device behaviour and repeating trends.
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With DNA Control Center, you can define the devices or IP addresses that are permitted to use the subscriptions, or enable two-way authentication.
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DNA Control Center will also help you to solve a large number of issues yourself. A straightforward diagnostics tool will check the most common reasons for a fault and suggest suitable solutions. Using this tool does not require any in-depth technical knowledge.
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Via DNA Control Center you can order new subscriptions.
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User manuals and API documentation are conveniently available within the management portal. You can also obtain quick answers to frequently asked questions.
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You can order additional services and extensions for the DNA Control Center through the Marketplace.
See also
With Location Based Services you can locate devices or sensorts, keep control of your company's assets and use location information to grow your business.
Use the location information for your company’s benefit
DNA Location Based Services enable locating devices and sensors, thus helping you to control your company’s assets and use location information to benefit your business.
- Location service is an add-on feature that can be activated to be part of the DNA Control Center environment.
- Locating is based on mobile network positioning technology. This means that the device doesn’t require a GPS receiver.
- Location information will be presented in coordinates, on a map, or transmitted over the API.
- It works on all IoT/M2M subscriptions.
Customer-specific APN enables safe data traffic from IoT devices using mobile subscriptions to the company network, without the need for VPN.
Private networks are company specific mobile networks, that ensure dedicated connectivity, low latency and high reliability. For performance critical IoT solutions, private network could be the right solution.
Cloud Connect: Many of the Internet of Things applications rely on cloud services, to which you can ensure best connectivity with Cloud Connect services.
Firewall: IoT solutions should always be isolated from office network and other networks to their own partition by using a firewall. This ensure secure and reliable data connections.
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