1NCE IoT Flat Rate

I have been using 1NCE  on and off over the past five years for IoT applications.

My main use case for 1NCE  is that it provides IoT SIM cards. I work on IoT use cases where I bring sensors into the field. Those sensors might have power if you are lucky, but maybe do not even have power and you want to get some sensor values back from those sensors every once in a while. I use the mobile network for doing that.

A specific example of a project where I used 1NCE SIM cards for my sensors is when I worked in the chemical industry. They have their own area for traffic management and there was specific traffic that needed to be tracked. I brought in sensors to track that traffic. This was also an area where not a lot of traffic was present. So that meant we could run off batteries and scan the vehicles from there and have an understanding of who is where at what time for SHE, for safe, healthy, and environment purposes. IoT devices in essence, I was measuring traffic.

I think the cool part about 1NCE is that they provide SIM cards for ten years, making them relevant for ten years. It is fairly cheap to get a SIM card from them and if you have a need for particular networks, they support the breadth of networks. With IoT sensors, for example, the 2G and 3G are probably more used. NarrowBand-IoT is also available there. When you want to bring a sensor in the field, it is going to have a certain lifetime and you want to add a SIM card to that, and it is very easy to do that with 1NCE.

The best features 1NCE offers in my experience are that you get the SIM cards, you have a platform in which you can manage your SIM cards and you have a backend where you can also communicate. What I think is really powerful about 1NCE is that you can just order it online. It is very simple to do, you have it really quickly and it just works out of the box. If you would compare that to other mobile phone or mobile network providers, then this would be a lot of work with contracts and other administrative tasks. Here  you do not have that. Another nice feature is that their platform allows for geofencing or geolocation, so you can identify where what towers are being used and where your sensor approximately is. This also helps with tracking. They have the capability to manage network access, whether devices can go directly to the internet or have a different approach of accessing those devices. This covers the breadth of needs for bringing IoT and mobile network together.

1NCE has impacted my organization positively because I am a freelancer and I deliver this to customers. Customers very often struggle with getting started with IoT. They have to think about contracts for mobile phone providers or mobile network providers. Because 1NCE has a very simple business model, it is very easy to understand, very easy to budget, and that lowers the threshold for companies that want to start with this.

I do not have any complaints about 1NCE at the moment. I do not have much to add about needed improvements.

I have been working in my current field for about ten plus years.

Regarding the stability of 1NCE, I appreciate that there is a little bit of maintenance, but they always call it out. I have never had unexpected downtime. Sometimes there was expected downtime, and I think that is good enough.

I find the scalability of 1NCE extremely easy; that is one of the core features.

The scalability of 1NCE means, first of all, can the platform handle the traffic? The answer is that there is no issue in that. But I think scaling also means onboarding new devices, and that is very simple to do. Getting the SIM cards is also a matter of within one or two days, you have a new SIM card. The scalability is also fast in that sense. It is not just easy, but it is also fast. And I think that makes it extremely good.

I have reached out to customer support very rarely, and it was always excellent. I rate the customer support a ten. They are extremely knowledgeable and effective. I also was not moved along; they could help me directly. That was great.

I had some experience with Vodafone and KPN, and that did not work very well.

The requisitioning process with 1NCE is extremely simple. It is very easy to get on board and start doing this. I think it means that your IT organization has a problem less to deal with. How big that problem is to begin with depends, of course, on your usage. I cannot provide concrete numbers, but I think it is the easiest way to bring IoT online through the mobile network.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is cheap, simple, and easy.

I evaluated Vodafone and KPN before choosing 1NCE.

The core feature is not time saved in that sense. The core feature is that people actually start doing it, where they otherwise would not because it is just too laborious.

I rate 1NCE a ten out of ten.

I give it a ten because it is a seemingly simple problem, but as you start looking closer to it, it is actually a difficult problem that they are fixing. What I really appreciate about 1NCE, and I think they are the only player that really does it like this, is that they provide the SIM card and it just works. There is very little clutter in getting this operationalized. If you are with a bunch of IoT engineers working on a project and you actually need a SIM card, you can get that done in a matter of hours. The enablement is what I think is unique to 1NCE and what I really appreciate.

Regarding 1NCE's AI capabilities, I think it has a very good suite of tools. They also provide APN and OpenVPN  solutions to get site-to-site connectivity, for example. You can make your own little infrastructure, your own little network for your own data, or you can just go through the internet, and that makes it so you can have many security postures fitting the need of your organization. They have a little bit of AI, and it works effectively. It works on the data you have inside of your platform, so the usage of your sensors and your IoT devices.

1NCE is a standalone platform hosted by Deutsche Telekom, and it is not hosted anywhere else. You can use OpenVPN , for example, to make site-to-site VPNs to connect it to any cloud provider that you like. Currently, it just goes over the internet and reaches different cloud providers depending on my customers.

My advice to anyone looking into using 1NCE is to just use it. It seems daunting at first; you just put in your credit card and then it works, and with anyone else, it is such a big problem. But it really is that simple. My overall rating for 1NCE is ten out of ten.

We use 1NCE  with our sensors and monitoring devices to connect remote environmental monitoring sensors that transmit temperature, humidity, and equipment status data back to our central platform in real-time.

Regarding our use case with those remote sensors and monitoring devices, its global connectivity and predictable pricing have made it easier to manage large numbers of devices across different locations.

The centralized device management helps my team by making it easy to monitor connectivity and manage large fleets of devices from a single platform, while the simple pricing helps us forecast costs more accurately.

1NCE has positively impacted our organization by reducing connectivity costs and simplifying the management of our IoT deployment, making it easier to scale effectively.

Regarding specific outcomes or metrics, our IoT connectivity costs fell by around 30% compared to our previous provider, and we spend significantly less time managing SIM subscriptions and billing.

More fine-tuned alerting options and deeper integration with third-party IoT platforms would be valuable additions.

Regarding 1NCE's governance and security, they are solid with strong SIM management controls, secure connectivity, and good visibility into device access and usage.

Regarding 1NCE's AI capabilities, 1NCE does not really have AI output in the traditional sense, but its connectivity data and device status reporting are very reliable and accurate for monitoring our IoT deployments.

My advice for others looking into using 1NCE is to plan your device rollout and connectivity requirements upfront and take advantage of the flat-rate model to simplify long-term cost management.

We do not have any partnership or reseller agreements; it is just a standard customer relationship with 1NCE.

I have been using 1NCE  for over a year and a half. Primarily, it is a solution for IoT connectivity and device communication use cases across distributed environments.

My primary use case for 1NCE  is supporting IoT devices and connectivity with centralized SIM management of distributed deployments. One of the key use cases involves reliable connectivity for remotely deployed devices that need consistent data communication across different locations.

When I talk about reliable connectivity for remotely deployed devices, I would start with one specific scenario involving remotely deployed monitoring telemetric devices, which required scalable understanding of telemetric data, and that is critical for continuous data transmission and operation visibility. Earlier, I was managing connectivity across different regions, which created central operational overhead and inconsistent performance in some locations. With 1NCE, I was able to standardize connectivity management through a more centralized approach with simplified provisioning and reduced manual coordination for the teams.

The best features of 1NCE that I can recollect would be the connectivity management model of an operational architecture from an operational architecture standpoint. Because I have been working as a solution architect for over five to six years, having a centralized management visibility for IoT connected devices across distributed deployments is very useful.

Regarding centralized management, the capability helped in giving the operations and engineering teams the ability to monitor and check the connectivity status, outages, device activity, and all that. That is one better use case. Instead of coordinating with different providers, the visibility and monitoring is key for any infrastructure. Provisioning through one platform is one of the best use cases.

From an architecture perspective, having consolidated visibility also made it easier to track the behavior and maintain consistency of the distribution deployments.

I would repeat that what is primarily important is about the deployments, visibility, and the engineering teams in one place. That is something good with the best use case of the application.

Instead of coordinating with different providers or handling fragmented visibility, the team could manage provisioning, troubleshooting, and monitoring more efficiently through one platform.

The areas for improvement could be around analytics and reporting flexibility. While the platform provides good operational visibility, having more customizable dashboards and deeper reporting capabilities would be beneficial. I would also say that 1NCE can expand the integration options with automation capabilities in organizations, with tighter integration within the internal monitoring or ITSM  platforms.

Depending on the organization, the organization could have the ability to provide monitoring or ITSM  platforms. That is one thing that I can say.

I have been using 1NCE for over a year and a half.

1NCE is very much stable in my experience.

1NCE does handle growth in device numbers or data volume well.

I have not used any different solution before 1NCE.

I was not focused on pricing and setup cost. I was only focused on deployment and use case scenarios.

I would say there is a return on investment, and the primary use case is monitoring and centralized capabilities.

I was not focused on pricing and setup cost. I was only focused on deployment and use case scenarios.

I have not evaluated other options before choosing 1NCE.

1NCE is a good product and I would recommend this. I would rate this review a 7.