How Mission-Critical eSIM Technology Improves Operational Efficiency for Businesses
Operational efficiency is a critical goal for businesses navigating the complex landscapes of modern industries. Whether managing autonomous fleets, supporting global IoT deployments, or protecting against network constraints and outages, enterprises need solutions that ensure seamless, reliable, and flexible connectivity. Enter eSIM technology, a better solution for global connectivity that’s helping businesses optimize operations, reduce costs, and unlock unprecedented levels of performance.
The Foundation of eSIM Technology
Unlike traditional SIM cards, which tie devices to specific carriers and often require physical replacement of SIM cards, eSIM (which can be a traditional SIM card or an embedded) allows businesses to manage connectivity over-the-air. eSIM technology eliminates the need to physically swap out SIMs and provides on demand, remote flexibility to dynamically switch between carriers. This adaptability is particularly invaluable for businesses deploying mission-critical devices that require high performance, low latency, and reliable network access across geographic regions.
The Challenges with Traditional Connectivity Solutions
Traditional SIMs and connectivity providers like MVNOs fail to meet the needs of today’s fast-paced, data-intensive environments. Many businesses face persistent hurdles such as:
- Redundancy Issues: Single points of failure and risks associated with network disruptions and outages.
- Limited Availability: Roaming restrictions often create higher latency, lower throughput and reduced performance that’s unreliable.
- Complex Vendor Management: Managing multiple carrier agreements and SIM SKUs adds unnecessary logistical complexity.
- Network Constraints: Being locked into one network or one provider reduces flexibility and scalability.
- Cost Implications of Network Sunsets: Limited futureproofing makes enterprises vulnerable to technology retirements.
To operate efficiently in the demanding IoT and autonomous sectors, businesses are seeking alternatives that offer dynamic carrier switching, global scalability, and unmatched performance. That’s where TEAL’s programmable eSIM technology makes a massive difference.
The TEAL Advantage in Mission-Critical IoT
TEAL’s eSIM technology offers businesses the freedom to connect devices to any network, anywhere in the world, without the constraints of traditional solutions. This eliminates operational pain points, enabling enterprises to streamline connectivity management and focus on their core objectives.
Here’s how programmable eSIM technology delivers value to businesses:
- Ultimate Flexibility: Dynamically switch between networks to optimize performance and maintain redundancy.
- Futureproof Solutions: Prepare for network sunsets and seamlessly integrate new technologies as they emerge.
- Cost Efficiency: Avoid managing separate contracts for different regions and minimize costs associated with roaming.
- Reliability at Scale: Connect devices globally with lower latency, higher throughput, and improved connectivity uptime.
Key Use Cases Benefiting from eSIM Technology
TEAL’s eSIM capabilities are revolutionizing operational efficiency for businesses across various sectors. Below are four standout case studies demonstrating the practical benefits of this advanced connectivity solution.
1. Starship Technologies
Application: Autonomous Delivery Robots
Challenges: Complexities associated managing multiple SIMs and vendor contracts, had no way to program devices onto multiple networks with a single SIM solution, enabling network redundancy, and navigating high latency from roaming connections.
Solution: TEAL’s programmable eSIM enabled Starship to access native core networks for reduced latency and improved throughput. By consolidating connectivity across various regions, Starship replaced physical SIM swaps with a single eSIM SKU, significantly simplifying global operations.
Results:
- Save Time & Money: Reduced number of network partners from 5 to 1 with cost savings of nearly a million dollars per year
- Reduced latency from 100ms to under 50ms.
- Fewer points of failure, resulting in more reliable deliveries.
- Scaled efficiency with thousands of robots deployed on TEAL’s cutting-edge solution.
2. Volatus Aerospace
Application: BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) Drones
Challenges: Budgeting for roaming services, accounting headaches associated with managing multiple carrier agreements, being locked into networks with limited flexibility to switch between multiple carriers, needed to streamline and improve deployment time of Beyond Visual line of Sight (BVLOS) drones, no redundancy for mission critical drone use cases.
Solution: TEAL’s eSIM technology allowed Volatus to dynamically switch between carriers based on drone location, reducing roaming costs and ensuring always-on connectivity. The high redundancy, low latency, and high throughput enabled by TEAL ensured safe and scalable deployments.
Results:
- Cost savings due to consolidated global network access. No longer needed to deal with the complexities of working with multiple MNO’s (mobile network operators) or MVNOs (mobile virtual network operators)
- Faster deployments and reduced configuration time.Experienced greater throughput with lower latency and higher redundancy
- Enabled programmable access to any network worldwide
- Benefitted from easier and faster deployment of drones
- Achieved reliable, fast connectivity enabling one pilot to fly multiple drones farther than ever before
3. Skyway Airspace Management
Application: Automated Air Traffic Management for eVTOL and UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management).
Challenges: Determining which SIM cards to use for various flight paths, time and money lost managing multiple SIMs from different connectivity vendors, needed ability to dynamically switch between carriers based on flight paths. having the ability to maintain reliable connectivity onto the world’s most secure networks, limited redundancy.
Solution: With TEAL’s eSIM solution, Skyway gained OTA programmability to dynamically connect to the best-performing networks, ensuring reliable, secure, and redundant connectivity for UTM operations.
Results:
- One programmable SIM that can be configured to onto any network removes the need for multiple SIMs and contracts with various connectivity providers
- No longer need to swap out SIMs. They can connect to any network with one eSIM SKU from TEAL
- More redundancy
- Better coverage for drones) – connect them onto the best networks
- Access to the best networks for any aircraft deployment
4. AquaSpy
Application: IoT-Based Precision Agriculture
Challenges: Lacked the ability to switch between networks over-the-air (OTA), reducing operational efficiency, managing several connectivity providers and agreements locking AquaSpy into undesirable carriers and contracts, performing physical SIM swaps, utilizing MVNOs led to limited flexibility.
Solution: TEAL’s eSIM technology enabled AquaSpy to launch Crophesy, a next-generation wireless soil probe requiring core connectivity for data transmission in remote locations. This reduced operational burden while ensuring reliable performance.
Results:
- Streamlined global device shipments and faster installation with OTA configuration.
- Enhanced rural coverage by dynamically connecting to the best carrier networks globally.
- Eliminated reliance on outdated solar-powered systems prone to damage.
Industries That Benefit Most from eSIM Technology
TEAL’s eSIM solution empowers businesses that rely on mission-critical IoT devices for their operations. Industries that benefit include:
- Autonomous Robotics: For applications requiring fast, reliable, and low-latency communication to ensure seamless functionality.
- Fleet Management: Ensuring devices in connected vehicles remain operational across varying geographies.
- Video Surveillance: Supporting high-throughput data transmission for secure and real-time video analytics.
- Connected Healthcare: Facilitating uninterrupted, secure medical data exchange, particularly in mobile applications.
- Transportation and Logistics: Providing reliable connectivity for telematics in vehicles.
- Agriculture: Revolutionizing crop management with precision IoT devices.
For businesses where connectivity isn’t mission-critical (e.g., low-data, non-cellular devices), traditional SIM cards may suffice. However, for enterprises seeking redundant connectivity, high performance, and a futureproof global solution, eSIM is non-negotiable.
The TEAL Difference
TEAL’s pay-as-you-go pricing as well as the newly introduced IoT eSIM with Unlimited 5G Data empowers enterprises with operational control, cost-effectiveness, and network reliability. By enabling connections onto any network worldwide, TEAL addresses pain points associated with multiple contracts, limited scalability, and network failures.
If you’re looking to elevate your business operations and achieve unparalleled efficiency, it’s time to explore the potential of eSIM technology. With TEAL, say goodbye to being locked into carrier agreements and hello to the freedom of programmable connectivity on-demand.
Get started with TEAL today and futureproof your global operations!
