The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network based on the Internet, traditional telecommunication networks and other information carriers, allowing all ordinary physical objects that can be independently addressed to realize interoperability. It has three important features: common object equipment, autonomous terminal interconnection and universal service intelligence.
The IOT card service is a mobile communication access service provided by China Mobile for the users of IOT, which adopts the 10648 and 14765 number segments dedicated for IOT as MSISDN, supports basic communication services such as SMS and GPRS through the dedicated network element equipment, and provides intelligent channel services such as communication status management and communication authentication, and opens the SMS access service number dedicated for IOT and APN dedicated for IOT by default.
The IOT card service is a mobile communication access service provided by China Mobile to the users of IOT.
The main functions of IOT card are:
1. Basic communication capability: GPRS communication capability and SMS communication capability, SMS can provide different priority services (retransmission frequency, storage time) to fully meet the needs of different group customers.
2. Terminal status query: provide customers with switching information, terminal location information, terminal GPRS on-line, off-line, IP, APN and other information query.
3. Account information query: Provide customers with account information query, and provide reminder functions for account arrears, traffic overrun and other events.
4, business statistics analysis: provide users with multi-dimensional business report statistics and analysis.
5. Flexible billing function: provide traffic pool, life cycle and other billing methods according to customer needs.
The difference between traffic card and IOT card
IOT card service is a mobile communication access service provided by China Mobile for IOT users, which adopts 10648 and 14765 segments dedicated for IOT as MSISDN, supports basic communication services such as SMS and GPRS through dedicated network element equipment, and provides intelligent channel services such as communication status management and communication authentication. By default, it opens a special SMS access service number for IoT and a special APN for IoT.
The main difference is the difference in billing method.
The IoT card is usually charged according to the traffic, but there is no or very few IoT cards sold to individuals, and usually bulk IoT cards are sold to enterprises.