This report was 1st published on our sister Site, The Internet Of All Things.
IT major Ericsson has revealed that it was working in tandem with Sprint and Softbank in the field of an integrated UICC, which is essentially an embedded SIM card, to help Internet of Things (IoT) developers face the challenge of different IoT deployments and realisations. To cut a tech story short, it means developing a SIM card for IoT.
At Ericsson, they have clubbed together the embedded SIM card (eUICC) and related terms into one common term, “xUICC”.
In the blog post, Takenori Kobayashi, Vice President, Head of Device Technology Division at SoftBank Corp, is quoted as saying, “We expect this technology will be one solution for issues with IoT devices, especially those that need to optimise data volumes using NB-IoT. We also believe this technology will stimulate the IoT business by becoming a global standard in the future.”
The goal of the teams at Ericsson working to further optimise the SIM solution for IoT devices is to eventually develop “a simplified SIM solution” that will help networks to scale for the billions of devices that will hit the market in the coming years.
Ericsson’s own research has revealed that by 2024, there will be over 22 billion connected IoT devices. All of these must remain connected to deliver sensor data or act upon commands from remote locations. And, all of this has to be done securely, which means secure identities are required to securely identify these devices, their data, and protect them from misuse by remote attacks.
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