Metering

Monetize your connected business and increase ROI

 

Connecting your business assets to gain insight results in increased efficiencies, productivity and a better customer experience.

The M2M Intelligence® metering services helps you monetize and manage your M2M and IoT project. It enables you to meter usage, bill for services, settle/accept payments and report on business metrics to improve your ROI 

Metering Features and Benefits

  • Multi-organization portal reflecting diverse M2M & IoT ecosystems +

    M2M and IoT value chains are diverse with multiple participants. The M2M Intelligence application provides a role-based organization and user portal with a hierarchical capability that can support multiple companies/departments/VARs. Dashboard provides relevant information (usage, devices, data shares, billing, alerts) based on the role and organizational structure.

  • Centrally administer the application for broad control and oversight +

    M2M Intelligence offers a command center to manage application resources such as devices, sources (i.e MQTT broker), users, applications as well as track the vital information on each. user, group, role based access. The administrator can setup thresholds for usage, so that resource usage is optimized to meet business goals.

  • Resource metering for security, tracking and billing +

    The M2M Intelligence application allows the administrator to meter the amount of resources consumed. This includes storage, bandwidth resources being used across the application across networks, users, APIs, or groups. This information can be used to decide on cut-offs, to understand abnormal usage, security abnormalities as well as for billing purposes.

  • Provide global precision billing per user across device groups +

    By using the resource metering capability, the M2M Intelligence application can track usage across users, departments, device groups. This enables the business to charge, accept payments and pay bills for resource usage based on these groups, users or organizations. You can also build custom rate tables for the different levels of roles within the application - organization, VAR, or end user.

  • Reporting on your M2M and IoT business metrics +

    The M2M Intelligence application generates a lot of data around resource usage, data access, Lockbox policies, alerts, devices under management among others. This data is used by the application to provide standard reports around business metrics.

  • Pay, bill and charge based on resources consumed +

    M2M Intelligence has integrated with the top payment platforms to enable organizations to complete their transactions online via multile options such as credit cards, bank debits. You can enable monthly subscription billing, pay bills, and setup how to distribute payments across your value chain
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