At this week’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, KORE demonstrated its ModGo software, which provides a unified, digital approach to IoT asset management.

It provides a streamlined approach to managed services, designed to help organisations overcome the challenges of IoT implementation and management.

“KORE ModGo represents true customer-led innovation,” said KORE CEO Romil Bahl. “It is SaaS that addresses the key difficulties organisations experience with their IoT deployments and streamlines the entire process of implementing and managing connected devices. We know that in order for companies to embrace IoT and reap its tremendous benefits for themselves and their end customers, we must reduce the complexities not just at start up but also throughout the entire lifecycle.”

ModGo, a SaaS-based platform, makes it easy to manage, order and deploy IoT on the go, providing organisations with a single way to simplify the entire process. Organisations can achieve greater control over their IoT ecosystem, including device deployment, network connectivity, hardware configuration, inventory and order management, device monitoring, lifecycle management, and reverse logistics.

For example, an organisation selling devices for usage-based vehicle insurance must first manage the logistics – getting the devices to the right customers – before even addressing the complexities associated with IoT, for example, configuring the devices with the requested network connectivity and data plan.

Once users receive the devices, they then need to assess whether the devices are working properly, transmitting data and accurately reporting. If a user needs additional or replacement devices or to send back old devices for repurposing or disposal, the organisation is responsible for that, as well.

IMS, a vehicle-driving data and connected insurance provider, collaborated with KORE on the development of ModGo and described the impact on its operations.

“IMS is driven by a sensor-agnostic and engagement-centric approach to mass-market connected insurance,” said Steve Slater, vice president at IMS. “If that data collection sensor is a piece of hardware, then success relies upon a series of interrelated complex processes extending across order to device monitoring. We have helped KORE design ModGo in a way that enables us to simplify, visualise and control each of these complex steps, enrolment, shipping, tracking, asset management; along with SIM activations and smart monitoring.”

David Lukens, senior vice president at IMS, added: “E-tailers like Amazon have raised the bar for direct-to-customer logistics and have created very high expectations on the part of consumers. This new approach with KORE will allow us to make sure we can meet these expectations and provide best-in-class fulfilment service for our customers. This innovation enables us to continue to deliver the highest levels of programme success to our insurance customers, by ensuring their consumers are engaged and supported with the highest qualify supply chain services and experiences.”