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Telematics and IoT Connectivity for Fleet Management
Keep your vehicles, trailers, equipment, and connected assets communicating with seamless, reliable IoT connectivity.
Cellhire provides connectivity that enhances telematics solutions, helping businesses, carmakers, telematics providers, and fleet operators reduce the risk of disconnection and lost vital data.
We can help you manage large-scale SIM estates and keep your data moving throughout the UK and internationally, ensuring reliable data flow, real-time insights and a connection you can count on.
Reliable Connectivity for Telematics
What is telematics? Telematics combines telecommunications and informatics to collect, transmit and use data from connected vehicles and assets.
For example, a telematics device can be used to capture information such as:
- location
- vehicle condition
- driver behaviour
- fuel consumption
- operating status
This information can be incredibly useful within a range of industries; however, this data can only improve performance once it's reached the platform that needs it - which is why connectivity is a vital piece of the puzzle.
If a vehicle loses connectivity, the data stops flowing.
This can create a gap in your visibility, leaving managers, directors, fleet managers, and distribution planners to make decisions without the latest information.
At Cellhire, we provide the cellular connectivity that ensures you have the data when you need it the most, from IoT SIMs for low-data tracking devices to high-bandwidth connectivity for continuous video telematics and connected dashcams. Simply, we'll keep your fleet moving.
Learn how IoT SIM cards can help fleet tracking and telematics.
Why Choose Cellhire for Telematics Connectivity?
Telematics fleets can include hundreds, even thousands of connected devices operating across a wide range of locations, networks and countries. Connectivity like this simply needs to work at scale.
How can Cellhire help?
Cellhire's unsteered multi-network IoT SIMs can connect to the strongest available network, rather than relying on a single mobile operator. This is especially important for vehicles travelling across coverage areas, or even across different countries. For UK fleets, we provide access to all four major UK networks through one SIM.
For vehicles, trailers and other assets that cross borders, permanent roaming provides a connectivity model designed for long-term international deployment. This helps businesses manage international fleets without the need for replacing SIMs at every border crossing.
Telematics estates can contain a range of devices, with different data requirements.
Being able to pool data across suitable IoT SIMs can help businesses manage variable usage across a larger estate, rather than treating every connection as an isolated data allowance.
Cellhire's SIM Management Portal provides you with central visibility and control across your whole IoT SIM estate.
Teams can monitor usage, manage SIMs, apply rules, investigate connectivity issues and integrate supported functions through an API (application programming interface).
This means a large telematics estate can be easily managed in one central space, rather than requiring manual intervention for every individual vehicle or asset.
For most businesses, security of data is paramount. Telematics connectivity can be designed around the security requirements of the wider network.
Cellhire supports options such as IMEI locks, private APNs, private and public IP addressing, L2TP, IPsec and VPN connectivity, ensuring your valuable data is protected. The right architecture typically depends on how devices need to communicate as well as the systems behind them.
A growing telematics estate may feel challenging to manage if connectivity, SIM management and technical support are split across multiple suppliers.
This is why Cellhire offers an all-in-one solution. With cellular IoT connectivity, SIM management and technical support all through one partner. While your business grows, we keep connectivity simple, secure and seamless.
Fleet Monitoring and Management
For fleet management, fleet telematics offers visibility across vehicles wherever they operate. A reliable connection means the data can be utilised by fleet management teams in real time, supporting applications such as:
Real-time GPS and location tracking
Track vehicle locations, providing you with up-to-date location information.
Driver behaviour monitoring
Ensure safety by collecting information about driving behaviour; this supports usage-based insurance and ensures driver training can be implemented where needed.
Fuel monitoring
Connected vehicle data can help fleet teams monitor their fuel consumption and identify any patterns that require investigation.
Remote diagnostics
Vehicle information can be collected and transmitted back to maintenance teams in real time, helping to identify any potential issues that require investigation.
Route optimisation
Location and vehicle data support route planning, helping your team to adapt and respond to any changes to the journey.
IoT Connectivity for Asset Tracking: Reinforced with Permanent Roaming
Not every telematics device will end up installed in a vehicle that has a constant power supply.
Trailers, containers, rental equipment, or mobile assets can operate for months without intervention. This means their connectivity needs to balance coverage, data requirements and power consumption.
Cellhire's IoT connectivity can support asset tracking applications including:
- Trailer and container tracking
- Plant and construction equipment
- Rental and leased equipment
- High-value cargo
- Cold-chain monitoring
- Door-open and door-closed monitoring
- Location and movement tracking
For battery-powered tracking devices, low data and low power connectivity can ensure your device operates for longer between battery changes.
For assets on the move, permanent roaming can provide a consistent connectivity model without requiring a new SIM for each border crossed or for each new market. Our permanent roaming solution has all the correct permissions to operate on foreign networks, eliminating the risk of disruptions caused by unforeseen roaming changes.
IMEI security can also help associate a SIM with its intended device, helping to remove the risk of unauthorised use.
Explore IoT Connectivity for Asset TrackingIoT Connectivity for Video Telematics and Connected Dashcams
Video telematics has very different requirements from a low-power asset tracker.
Video telematics, such as a dashcam, requires significantly more data when recording video, uploading incidents or even live streaming. This connection therefore needs to accommodate higher bandwidth and sustained data usage.
A connection that drops during an incident could leave you without the full picture, or without the critical footage you need to make a claim.
For video telematics businesses, it's important to carefully consider the bandwidth, the data, the network coverage and the roaming alongside the installed camera hardware itself.
At Cellhire, we can support high-bandwidth connected applications through our wider IoT and mobile broadband offering.
Discuss Your Video Telematics RequirementsWhich Connectivity Does Your Telematics Application Need?
Different telematics applications have different connectivity requirements. The right SIM and network solution should reflect the device, data usage, power model, coverage requirements and deployment environment.
| Use case | Connectivity type | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Fleet tracking | Multi-network IoT SIM | Supports real-time location data across vehicles operating in different coverage areas. |
| Asset tracking | Low-power IoT connectivity | Designed for battery-powered devices transmitting smaller amounts of data over longer periods. |
| Dashcams | High-bandwidth data connectivity | Supports video uploads, live streaming and other high-data applications. |
| Cross-border fleets | Permanent roaming | Supports long-term connectivity as vehicles and assets move between countries. |
| Remote diagnostics | IoT connectivity with suitable IP/network architecture | Enables connected equipment to communicate with authorised platforms and systems. |
Manage Your Telematics SIMs at Scale
Managing a handful of connected devices is one thing: managing thousands across a national or international fleet? That requires visibility.
At Cellhire, our IoT SIM Management portal provides you with a single view of your connectivity estate.
Use it to:
- Monitor SIM usage
- Manage connections
- Apply connectivity rules and triggers
- Monitor SIM status
- Diagnose connectivity issues
- Set and monitor data usage
- Generate reports
- Integrate supported functions through APIs
- Manage connectivity across a range of locations both nationally and internationally.
Our market-leading portal also supports remote management, helping teams to successfully investigate connectivity issues before sending an engineer out on the road.
For large telematics deployments, centralised SIM management can reduce manual administration and give operational teams much greater visibility over the connectivity supporting their fleet, day in and day out.
Explore IoT SIM ManagementWhy Choose Cellhire for Your Telematics Connectivity
We connect compatible IoT devices across all four major UK mobile networks through Cellhire's unsteered multi-network solution.
Global Connectivity
Support international deployments with permanent roaming across Cellhire's global IoT network.
Low-Power Connectivity
Choose appropriate IoT technologies for applications where data volumes and power consumption need to be controlled for longevity.
High-bandwidth Connectivity
Support applications such as connected dashcams and video telematics where higher data volumes are required.
Centralised Management
Utilise our SIM management portal to manage your telematics SIM estate.
Secure Connectivity
Choose from private APNs, private and public IP addressing, L2TP, IPsec and VPN connectivity according to your network's architecture.
Dedicated Support
Get on-hand dedicated support from a connectivity partner that understands your requirements and the difficulties of large, distributed IoT deployments, and can offer expert advice when you need it the most.
Frequently Asked Questions
A telematics box, otherwise known as a telematics unit, is a connected device that can be installed in a vehicle or other asset. It collects information from the vehicle or equipment and transmits it to a central platform using IoT cellular connectivity.
Video telematics refers to telematics combined with camera technology. This is commonly used to provide video footage, alongside information such as a vehicle's location, driver behaviour or incident data. Common applications include connected dashcams.
The right SIM depends entirely on the device, the data requirements, coverage, network architecture and your deployment model. For simple applications, a data SIM can meet your requirements; however, for a large telematics estate, IoT-specific capabilities can provide much greater control and resilience.
Telematics devices that depend on 2G need to be identified and updated as older networks such as 2G and 3G are retired. Download our guide to help you understand what the 2G and 3G sunsets mean for your devices.
Yes, Cellhire's unsteered multi-network IoT SIMs can connect devices to the strongest available network. This reduces the reliance on a single network, ensuring your connectivity is as strong as possible.
When Did You Last Benchmark Your Telematics Connectivity?
Your telematics estate can only work with the data that reaches it.
Coverage gaps, legacy devices, and disconnected SIMs all impact the data.
Cellhire can assess your current requirements and help you to identify a connectivity model that suits you, built around reliability, scalability, security, and your long-term operational needs.
Simply get in touch today to talk to a telematics expert.
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