As a product manager responsible for a cellular-connected IoT fleet, you’ll need to look beyond the web console when it’s time to grow. Manual SIM management for tens of thousands of connected asset trackers or smart devices/sensors for buildings, retail, healthcare, or farming is just too slow and labor-intensive to take you beyond the initial stages of a product rollout. 

Instead, you can program and automate your way to efficiency with cellular IoT APIs. A good API lets you scale up your fleet by adding volume, expanding to new regions, or creating more diverse customer experiences, all while streamlining operations to save costs. (A not-so-good API is another story, but we’ll get to that.) Ideally, you can run a fleet of 500,000 devices with the same resources it takes to manage one with 50.

This white paper explains why APIs are important for cellular IoT device management and how you can use APIs to operate more efficiently and improve the user experience. It then gives you a plethora of practical tips for how to evaluate a vendor’s API so you can make sure you’re getting the best quality and functionality for your fleet.