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IoT CCS Use Cases – Electrical Scooter Rentals
Usually, operators’ mobile core and OSS/BSS teams prioritize stability before being fast on their feet, implementing every change requested by demanding customers.
With Enea Aptilo IoT Connectivity Control Service (IoT CCS), mobile operators can free themselves from these limitations. It gives them the freedom to innovate IoT services that were impossible to achieve in a strict 3GPP environment. As a result, mobile operators can easily tailor IoT connectivity services to the specific needs of different customer types.
In our series of end-customer use cases, the time has come to discuss the need for IoT connectivity in Electric Scooter rentals.
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Rental of Electrical Scooters – Location and Private IP
Companies offering app-based short-time rental of electrical scooters are popping up like mushrooms in larger cities worldwide.
They have tens of thousands of low-end devices in the form of electrical scooters. This type of company needs to secure traffic from their scooters to the receiving servers. They may also need automatic detection of usage anomalies, for example, unexpected data patterns.
The scooters are exposed to potential user manipulations. They commission and decommission them regularly, and an average lifespan of a scooter is just a few months.
Scooters must only be mobile within a pre-defined area in the city, so rental companies need to:
- Limit usage outside of defined localities.
- Enable direct connectivity to each unique scooter. Hence, scooters need to have a private IP address.
- Allow for easy and instant blocking of lost scooters or the ones taken out of service.
Watch the videos below to learn more about IoT CCS. The Electrical Scooter use case starts at 21:40 min into the use case video.