Numerex launches next-gen M2M service delivery platform

Numerex Corp. has launched the Numerex FAST 3.0, a cloud-based M2M platform that enables expanded service features and capabilities. The FAST 3.0 highlights scalability and flexibility, and includes three service delivery options which can be accessed independently or as a fully integrated solution: Network as a Service (NaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).

The Numerex NaaS ensures intelligent connectivity and is a key component of the "Infrastructure as a Service" provider model. Through NaaS, Numerex integrates cellular, satellite, wired, Wi-Fi and short range wireless options with critical add-on functionality such as automated activation and provisioning, policy and threshold management, and fraud detection.

The company puts a strong emphasis on information security and goes well beyond the use of authentication, encryption and virtual private network (VPN) technologies to protect customer data.

For M2M partners who want to avoid upfront capital expenditures, minimize risk, and benefit from immediate availability of proven production capabilities, the Numerex PaaS provides an environment through which they can easily and rapidly develop, run and test their applications. Central to Numerex PaaS is the ability to access a wide range of Numerex-hosted web services such as device management, provisioning, location, mapping, geofencing, geocoding, data mining, and business intelligence.

Rounding out the service delivery options, Numerex SaaS is an increasingly popular tool that gives customers access to specific Numerex-developed M2M applications hosted in the cloud.

In addition, Numerex has developed a user-friendly customer portal within FAST 3.0, the Numerex Passport, which provides seamless access to critical solution management information as well as all Numerex M2M services including customer care. Numerex Passport is one of the SaaS applications built upon the web services in Numerex PaaS. Customers can use it as a graphical user interface (GUI) outright or incorporate these device management web services into their own application.


Numerex Corp.