Provides seamless onboarding, connectivity, and device management

There are various factors driving Arm's vision to realize one trillion connected devices by 2035. One of them is the potential for companies to derive tangible business value from IoT data.

Leveraging IoT data offers clear benefits, such as increased efficiency, faster time-to-market, reduced costs, and the creation of new revenue streams. Embracing these benefits implies ensuring the reliability, security, and rapid access of data to extract meaningful insights.

The Arm Mbed IoT Device Management Platform, which provides enterprises with the capability to securely develop, provision, and manage connected devices, is a solution that enables trusted, secure, and rapidly accessible data.

Arm has acquired Stream Technologies and is currently developing the next-generation Mbed IoT device management platform, and plans to integrate it with a platform that can manage all device connections regardless of location or network. Stream Technologies supports physical connectivity for all major wireless protocols, such as cellular, LoRa, and satellite, which can be managed through a single user interface.

To ensure data access at a reasonable time and cost in any situation, the ability to seamlessly connect all IoT devices is essential.

Founded in 2000, Stream Technologies is a leading connectivity management technology provider maintaining over 770,000 managed subscribers and an average traffic of 2TB per day. With a single deployment, Stream relieves the hassle of interfacing with various systems or entering into multiple business contracts by deploying supply chains and sourcing networks wherever IoT devices can be placed, and by automatically provisioning and connecting to the most cost-effective channels through self-certification. This enables companies to reduce the time, cost, and complexity involved in connecting devices and using meaningful data streams.

Hima Mukkamala, Senior Vice President and General Manager of IoT Cloud Services at Arm, stated, “The integration of Stream’s technology with Arm’s Mbed IoT device management platform provides a powerful end-to-end IoT platform that enables enterprises to manage, connect, provision, and update devices in an easily scalable and flexible manner.”

“Scalability is critical at this point, as we transition from billions to trillions of connected devices,” he said. “Stream works seamlessly with GSMA-compliant embedded SIM (eSIM) solutions and partner SIM solutions such as Arm Kigen, protecting the identity of IoT devices used across various environments from chips to the cloud and ensuring optimized connectivity.”

Customers can enjoy the following key benefits through Arm's acquisition of Stream and integration with the Mbed IoT device management platform.

• Provides visibility and management capabilities across the device lifecycle in a single pane of glass – deployment, connectivity, provisioning, management, and updates

• Implementing zero-touch onboarding that expands IoT connectivity efficiency and scale by facilitating policy communication and connectivity through eSIM integration.

• Optimized for deployed devices, regions, and use cases with global aggregation based on network type and flexible wireless connectivity options.

• Simplified billing and reconciliation are achieved through APIs and automated controls, enabling more flexible event-based billing.

• All device connections and management are performed regardless of network type, enabling more reliable data usage. It seamlessly delivers new updates and features, and optimizes service quality and latency for troubleshooting.

Through the acquisition of Stream, Arm is able to further accelerate its mission to securely manage the complexity of IoT across various environments, from the chip to the cloud. Consequently, Arm's customers can focus on deriving practical insights from data generated by connected devices.