IoT Platform Telefónica Kite

Kite Platform is Telefónica’s foundational component of its IoT portfolio. It is a platform that goes beyond managing IoT connectivity, and provides benefits for all dimensions in all IoT ecosystems from devices to IoT products and platforms. It is an in-house solution with a dedicated network infrastructure that is globally deployed and hosted in the cloud, allowing access via a web portal or API from everywhere. It supports an extensive portfolio of sim cards. It also offers an end-to-end service and is capable of managing not only traditional cellular connectivity but also all new IoT network connectivity technologies like Narrow Band –IoT (NB-IoT), LTE-M and Sigfox.

This service is geared to all customer segments, from multinationals with deployments of hundreds of thousands of sim cards globally to small businesses with local deployments of dozens of sim cards. The Kite Platform solution has a dedicated global network infrastructure that’s integrated into the networks of the operators we work with and managed by cloud-hosted software that allows access via a web portal or a set of APIs from anywhere in the world.

The Kite Platform goes beyond IoT connectivity management and provides multi-dimensional benefits across all IoT environments, from the devices to the products and platforms, thus constituting the foundational component of Telefónica’s IoT portfolio. It supports a wide range of SIM cards, offers an end-to-end service and is capable of handling not only traditional cellular connectivity, but also all the new IoT network connectivity technologies, such as broadband IoT (NB-IoT) and LTE-M.