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Making a success of the Internet of Things (IoT)

Transforming lives and businesses

Overview

Around the world, industries are being transformed by the Internet of Things (IoT). And it’s not hard to see why. IoT can help you unlock new revenue streams, improve efficiency and increase customer engagement and loyalty. Why risk being left behind? We can help you make the most of this powerful technology, delivering immediate benefits and setting you up for future success.

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Vodafone IoT

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Choosing the right IoT solutions for your business

Whatever industry you’re in, IoT technology has the power to transform your business. It can improve employee efficiency, help deliver better customer experiences and give you unprecedented visibility of your supply chain, assets and operations.

That’s why it’s so important that you make the right choices. Selecting the wrong components, picking the wrong software or choosing the wrong network technology can make your IoT projects less likely to be successful, more expensive and harder to manage and sale. That’s why choosing an experienced partner is so important.

At Vodafone, our mission is to help you simplify IoT. We offer a wide range of high-quality, end-to-end solutions to meet your specific requirements. With our expertise at your side, you can rest assured that every element of your project will run smoothly from start to finish. And, of course, you can count on our reliable and secure global network to deliver the best results.

Narrowband-IoT

NB-IoT is the ideal connectivity solution if you need long-life batteries and a compact form factor. It’s especially good for applications that generate low data traffic or are deployed across wide geographic areas.

Vodafone Digital Buildings

This end-to-end service takes your building security and surveillance to the next level. It can intelligently combine connected CCTV cameras, heat mapping and foot traffic monitoring to improve security and give powerful insights.

IoT Managed Tablet

Mobility is crucial to productivity, but managing devices can be costly and time-consuming. This solution helps improve the security and lifecycle management of all your connected devices.

Telematics

Our usage-based insurance solutions can help you improve risk management, reduce costs in the claims process, enhance customer loyalty and create new revenue opportunities.

Integrated Terminals

Our integrated terminals provide reliable and secure support for your IoT devices, applications, traffic and data. We work with leading hardware brands to offer a broad portfolio of terminals, covering a wide range of needs.

Asset tracking

Never lose sight of your assets—no matter where they are in the world. Our mobile asset tracking solutions give you real-time information on the location and condition of assets through an easy-to-use online portal.

Monitoring and Control

Get full visibility of the condition, movement and status of your assets as a single global view—putting you back in control, no matter where your assets are.

Smart Grid and Smart Meters

Our intelligent utility solutions can help you improve the efficiency of your energy supply. This can give you greater control, reduce waste and unlock new business opportunities.

Connected Cabinets

We can transform your retail display cabinets, such as beverage coolers and freezers, into connected, intelligent assets. This can help you maximize sales, reduce waste and gain increased customer understanding.

Satellite IoT

We can help you connect devices in even the most remote and inhospitable locations. Whether as primary or backup connectivity, our satellite connectivity means that every pipeline, remote worker and vehicle can stay connected.

IoT is transforming industries everywhere

Vodafone's IoT technology is transforming a wide range of industries. Retailers are using it to delight their customers; with smart shelves, interactive digital displays and highly personalised marketing. In healthcare, it’s helping clinicians deliver better care to individuals and improve their wellbeing—with medication alerts, real-time ambulance tracking, heart monitoring devices and so much more. And in industries like manufacturing, it’s helping increase productivity, while improving safety, reducing costs and protecting the environment.

Whatever industry you’re in, the potential benefits of IoT are immense. Leverage our expertise and experience in your sector to accelerate and de-risk your IoT initiatives.

Automotive

Our IoT technology is enabling manufacturers to deliver new features and services to their owners. This is helping them generate new revenue and build longer lasting relationships. It’s also improving efficiency throughout the supply chain.

Retail

Maximising sales opportunities is the top priority for ever retail business. Our IoT solutions can help retailers do that.

Healthcare

Discover how our IoT services are revolutionising healthcare.

Finance

Delivering tangible value through innovative, IoT based technology solutions that address the challenges faced by the industry.

Energy & utilities

Our smart grid and smart meter solutions are enabling energy and utilities companies to improve efficiency, increase resilience and incorporate new energy sources into their networks. It’s also enabling them to work with customers to manage use, smoothing peaks and cutting both bills and emissions.

Smart Cities

IoT technology is already changing industry. We believe it can change the way we live day-to-day too. Learn about our vision of smart cities.

Manufacturing

Competition in the manufacturing arena has grown incredibly strong. That’s why they want to change the face of manufacturing with IoT technology.

Logistics

Our services enable the logistics industry to increase safety, map and delivery better asset tracking.
We’ve been rated as a global leader in IoT by analysts who’ve done extensive research into this technology. We have over 38 million IoT connections in over 30 countries, and that number is growing daily. But that’s not all that makes us a leader.

We’ve helped organisations from all industries—from healthcare to manufacturing, automotive to public sector—along their IoT journeys. We understand that whether you need help designing, building or managing IoT solutions that one size doesn’t fit all. We offer solutions and services tailored to the individual needs of each industry to help you achieved your desired business outcomes.

We offer 4G LTE roaming in over 100 countries. We’re also pioneers in Narrowband-IoT connectivity, which is enabling a whole generation of IoT devices.

Since 2013, we’ve published the Vodafone IoT Barometer, a highly-regarded report on the state of the market. This insightful report reflects our commitment to IoT and position as an industry leader and global pioneer.

Ready to embark on your IoT journey? You’ve come to the right place.

Vodafone IoT Platform

Choosing the right IoT platform is vital to the success of your IoT initiatives. The right one can help you deploy and scale your solutions more quickly, reduce downtime and management burdens, and help you take technology changes in your stride. It can help you integrate your solutions with each other and core business systems. It can help you monitor and report on the success of your projects—and even find ways to monetise them. And, perhaps most importantly of all, it can help you keep your data, your customers’ data, and all the systems your IoT devices are connected to secure.

Vodafone IoT Platform

At the heart of any IoT solution is a platform. A solution that offers flexibility and the ability to act fast and build solutions to your specific needs. A toolset that is simple to use, allows you to scale and is secure.

IoT solutions

Choosing the right IoT solutions for your business

Whatever industry you’re in, IoT technology has the power to transform your business. It can improve employee efficiency, help deliver better customer experiences and give you unprecedented visibility of your supply chain, assets and operations.

That’s why it’s so important that you make the right choices. Selecting the wrong components, picking the wrong software or choosing the wrong network technology can make your IoT projects less likely to be successful, more expensive and harder to manage and sale. That’s why choosing an experienced partner is so important.

At Vodafone, our mission is to help you simplify IoT. We offer a wide range of high-quality, end-to-end solutions to meet your specific requirements. With our expertise at your side, you can rest assured that every element of your project will run smoothly from start to finish. And, of course, you can count on our reliable and secure global network to deliver the best results.

Narrowband-IoT

NB-IoT is the ideal connectivity solution if you need long-life batteries and a compact form factor. It’s especially good for applications that generate low data traffic or are deployed across wide geographic areas.

Vodafone Digital Buildings

This end-to-end service takes your building security and surveillance to the next level. It can intelligently combine connected CCTV cameras, heat mapping and foot traffic monitoring to improve security and give powerful insights.

IoT Managed Tablet

Mobility is crucial to productivity, but managing devices can be costly and time-consuming. This solution helps improve the security and lifecycle management of all your connected devices.

Telematics

Our usage-based insurance solutions can help you improve risk management, reduce costs in the claims process, enhance customer loyalty and create new revenue opportunities.

Integrated Terminals

Our integrated terminals provide reliable and secure support for your IoT devices, applications, traffic and data. We work with leading hardware brands to offer a broad portfolio of terminals, covering a wide range of needs.

Asset tracking

Never lose sight of your assets—no matter where they are in the world. Our mobile asset tracking solutions give you real-time information on the location and condition of assets through an easy-to-use online portal.

Monitoring and Control

Get full visibility of the condition, movement and status of your assets as a single global view—putting you back in control, no matter where your assets are.

Smart Grid and Smart Meters

Our intelligent utility solutions can help you improve the efficiency of your energy supply. This can give you greater control, reduce waste and unlock new business opportunities.

Connected Cabinets

We can transform your retail display cabinets, such as beverage coolers and freezers, into connected, intelligent assets. This can help you maximize sales, reduce waste and gain increased customer understanding.

Satellite IoT

We can help you connect devices in even the most remote and inhospitable locations. Whether as primary or backup connectivity, our satellite connectivity means that every pipeline, remote worker and vehicle can stay connected.

Industries

IoT is transforming industries everywhere

Vodafone's IoT technology is transforming a wide range of industries. Retailers are using it to delight their customers; with smart shelves, interactive digital displays and highly personalised marketing. In healthcare, it’s helping clinicians deliver better care to individuals and improve their wellbeing—with medication alerts, real-time ambulance tracking, heart monitoring devices and so much more. And in industries like manufacturing, it’s helping increase productivity, while improving safety, reducing costs and protecting the environment.

Whatever industry you’re in, the potential benefits of IoT are immense. Leverage our expertise and experience in your sector to accelerate and de-risk your IoT initiatives.

Automotive

Our IoT technology is enabling manufacturers to deliver new features and services to their owners. This is helping them generate new revenue and build longer lasting relationships. It’s also improving efficiency throughout the supply chain.

Retail

Maximising sales opportunities is the top priority for ever retail business. Our IoT solutions can help retailers do that.

Healthcare

Discover how our IoT services are revolutionising healthcare.

Finance

Delivering tangible value through innovative, IoT based technology solutions that address the challenges faced by the industry.

Energy & utilities

Our smart grid and smart meter solutions are enabling energy and utilities companies to improve efficiency, increase resilience and incorporate new energy sources into their networks. It’s also enabling them to work with customers to manage use, smoothing peaks and cutting both bills and emissions.

Smart Cities

IoT technology is already changing industry. We believe it can change the way we live day-to-day too. Learn about our vision of smart cities.

Manufacturing

Competition in the manufacturing arena has grown incredibly strong. That’s why they want to change the face of manufacturing with IoT technology.

Logistics

Our services enable the logistics industry to increase safety, map and delivery better asset tracking.

Why Vodafone

We’ve been rated as a global leader in IoT by analysts who’ve done extensive research into this technology. We have over 38 million IoT connections in over 30 countries, and that number is growing daily. But that’s not all that makes us a leader.

We’ve helped organisations from all industries—from healthcare to manufacturing, automotive to public sector—along their IoT journeys. We understand that whether you need help designing, building or managing IoT solutions that one size doesn’t fit all. We offer solutions and services tailored to the individual needs of each industry to help you achieved your desired business outcomes.

We offer 4G LTE roaming in over 100 countries. We’re also pioneers in Narrowband-IoT connectivity, which is enabling a whole generation of IoT devices.

Since 2013, we’ve published the Vodafone IoT Barometer, a highly-regarded report on the state of the market. This insightful report reflects our commitment to IoT and position as an industry leader and global pioneer.

Ready to embark on your IoT journey? You’ve come to the right place.

Vodafone IoT Platform

Choosing the right IoT platform is vital to the success of your IoT initiatives. The right one can help you deploy and scale your solutions more quickly, reduce downtime and management burdens, and help you take technology changes in your stride. It can help you integrate your solutions with each other and core business systems. It can help you monitor and report on the success of your projects—and even find ways to monetise them. And, perhaps most importantly of all, it can help you keep your data, your customers’ data, and all the systems your IoT devices are connected to secure.

Vodafone IoT Platform

At the heart of any IoT solution is a platform. A solution that offers flexibility and the ability to act fast and build solutions to your specific needs. A toolset that is simple to use, allows you to scale and is secure.

Explore our additional resources for greater insight

Case studies

Read about real businesses which are already using IoT—the benefits they are seeing and the lessons they’ve learnt.

Insights

Get the expert knowledge you need to make a success of IoT. Our in-depth articles and videos will help to guide your journey.

Our IoT blog

Find out more about recent innovations, current trends, and exciting developments in IoT.

Our IoT partners

Explore our comprehensive list of IoT partners and their industry-led solutions and services.

IoT Barometer

Get unparalleled insight from the Vodafone IoT Barometer. An invaluable resource, wherever you are on your IoT journey.

Did you know?

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Gartner has positioned Vodafone as a "Leader" in its Magic Quadrant for Managed M2M Services, Worldwide report 2017, for the fourth consecutive year
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We are the world's largest IoT services provider
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Vodafone IoT have connected over 65 million devices worldwide