Soracom provides an IoT platform to address challenges with device connectivity, security, and management. It offers cellular connectivity through pay-as-you-go SIM cards, as well as connectivity options for LoRaWAN and Sigfox. The platform includes services like Beam for secure communication and Funnel for protocol translation. Customers like WHILL, DyDo, and Komatsu use Soracom to connect IoT devices to the cloud while addressing issues like power efficiency, large-scale device management, and private networking needs. Soracom aims to make connectivity and management of IoT devices simpler through its cloud-based platform.

1. SORACOM
and
IoT in the real world
Yuta Imai,
Solutions Architect, SORACOM, INC.
https://soracom.jp
2017/10/28
Rakuten Tech Conference 2017

2. IoT and SORACOM platform

3. What we wanted to solve..

4. CloudNetworkThings
Wired-LAN, WiFi
Physical Installation and Client configuration
3G/LTE
Looks good, but still have constraints in its complicated
contract…
Security
Encryption is hard to afford for small
devices.
Management
What if # of devices goes thousands and
millions…?
Connectivity Security
Management

5. Cellular for things?

6. Launched on Sep.30, 2015
You can buy it on Amazon!
We charge 10JPY on daily basis. No minimum
contract.

7. Yes，it’s SIM card!

8. １．Agility
You can buy it online from 1 SIM.
２．Pay as you go
Basic fee: 10JPY per daily basis (No MINIMUM term)
Data fee: 0.2+JPY/MB (No MINIMUM volume)
３．Self service
Fully functional via API and Web console.
What we offer: 3 key benefits

9. １．Agility
You can buy it online from 1 SIM.
２．Pay as you go
Basic fee: 10JPY per daily basis (No MINIMUM term)
Data fee: 0.2+JPY/MB (No MINIMUM volume)
３．Self service
Fully functional via API and Web console.
What we offer: 3 key benefits

10. １．Agility
You can buy it online from 1 SIM.
２．Pay as you go
Basic fee: 10JPY per daily basis (No MINIMUM term)
Data fee: 0.2+JPY/MB (No MINIMUM volume)
３．Self service
Fully functional via API and Web console.
What we offer: 3 key benefits

11. １．Agility
You can buy it online from 1 SIM.
２．Pay as you go
Basic fee: 10JPY per daily basis (No MINIMUM term)
Data fee: 0.2+JPY/MB (No MINIMUM volume)
３．Self service
Fully functional via API and Web console.
What we offer: 3 key benefits

12. You can manage each subscribers, bandwidth, traffic
utilization on our web console.

13. CloudNetworkThings
We connect.You create.

14. How does it work?

15. SORACOM Platform
Things Mobile Carrier
Data center
AWS、Azure
The internet
SORACOM
Leased
Line
PGW(Packet Data Network Gateway)
• Authentication
• Translation between cellular and IP
• Routing/Forwarding
• Traffic/Usage management
• Billing

16. It’s software, so we can deploy anywhere on
cloud!
Japan Coverage
Global Coverage
Private deploy for KDDI

17. Started from cellular,
today we cover various radio technologies.

18. for LoRaWAN
You can build your own
LPWA easily
SORACOM Air
for Sigfox
You can use Sigfox
from 1 device.
for Cellular
Cellular with flexibility
Low Power
Wide Area
Network

19. We also cover secure connectivity to your
cloud.

20. CloudNetworkThings
Wired-LAN, WiFi
Physical Installation and Client configuration
3G/LTE
Looks good, but still have constraints in its complicated
contract…
Security
Encryption is hard to afford for small
devices.
Management
What if # of devices goes thousands and
millions…?
Connectivity Security
Management
Radio access network services
SORACOM Airfor Cellular
for LoRaWAN
for Sigfox
Application services
SORACOM Beam / Funnel / Harvest / Endorse
Establishing a secure and closed network to your cloud.
SORACOM Canal / Direct / Door
Network in depth
SORACOM Junction
Managing devices
SORACOM Gate / Inventory

21. SORACOM connects every wireless and clouds.
Cellular
Sigfox
AWS, Google, Azure
Private Cloud, Data Center
The internet
Wireless Agnostic Cloud Agnostic
LoRaWAN

22. 8000+ customers are using
SORACOM platform across the world.

23. Customers & Partners

24. So, what is IoT in the real world?
What are the challenges?

25. Smart meter Vehicle
management
Remote monitoring
ヤンマーキャステクノ株式会社
松江事業所内
Typical IoT applications

26. Things
Funnel
Beam
Stream
Batch
Amazon
Athena
Amazon
S3
AWS
Lambda
Amazon
Redshift
BigQuery
Pipeline
Processing
Time series DB
Machine Learning
Ad-hoc queries
Metrics
Feedback
Event
Google
Cloud Storage
Typical architecture

27. Devices and networks are parts of you
application!

28. Things CloudNetwork
• We developers have to take care devices and connectivity.
Devices and networks are parts of you application!
Power
Radio
Cost of device
Traffic management
Encryption
FW version up
Subscriber
Management
Configuration
management
Cloud connectivity
Wire security

29. I will dive deep about…
Remote meteringRemote monitoring Automation

30. For better support, WHILL is
collecting operational data from the
vehicles.
WHILL provides personal
mobility and it’s support.
Secure data emission: WHILL
Challenge: Power efficiency Encryption
makes a large load to devices!
• High battery consumption
• Overhead on communication.

31. WHILL: High level architecture
SORACOM Beam

32. SORACOM Beam – Secure proxy
Leased line
The internet Your backend
Server A
Server B
Encrypted
HTTP->HTTPS
MQTT->MQTTS
TCP -> TCPS/HTTP/HTTPS
UDP -> HTTP/HTTPS
…
Mobile
Carrier
Things
RAN
Unencrypted
beam.soracom.io

33. Less radio emission, more battery life!
HTTPS HTTP TCP UDP

34. DyDo is collecting data from
150K+ vending machines to
AWS, with SORACOM.
POS management: DyDo
Challenges:
Management, 150K+ vending
machines. That’s a lot!

35. High level architecture
Encryption
SORACOM Funnel

36. SORACOM Funnel – Cloud Adaptor
credential
Protocol translation
Authentication
Buffering
Error handling
SORACOM Funnel
Amazon Kinesis
Streams
Amazon Kinesis
Firehose
Microsoft Azure
EventHubs
AWS IoT
Leased
Line
Mobile
Carrier
Things
RAN
Google Cloud
Pub/Sub
Your devices can use HTTP, TCP and UDP
funnel.soracom.io
You don’t have to put credentials on your devices

37. •Devices are constraint and small capacity
•No OS.
•(Physically) Widely distributed.
Still they have to manage a bunch of devices.
DyDo challenges

38. • Real time traffic and online/offline monitoring thru API
• Connect/Disconnect logs via API
• With event handler, customers can fire event when..
• Say, traffic volume goes over threshold(1GB/day)
• Terminate 3G/LTE session
• Decrease bandwidth.
• Customers can put meta data for each subscribers and devices can access then
thru SORACOM Air easily.
• IMEI Lock
• SIM is coupled to a certain IMEI, so it does not work if it’s stolen.
Management automation

39. With SMART CONSTRUCTION,
customers send design data to
vehicles and they will be operated
accordingly.
Device management: KOMATSU
Challenges:
They need fully capable private
IP network peering with
Microsoft Azure VNet.

40. KOMATSU: High level architecture
SORACOM
Door
IPSec VPN
SORACOM
Gate
Bi-directional communication
Orders
Results

41. KOMATSU: High level architecture
SORACOM
Door
IPSec VPN
SORACOM Core network
100.65.x.y/24(per customer)
Customer network
say 172.16.0.0
Device network
10.127.0.0/9 NAT
Peer
(VPN)

42. KOMATSU: High level architecture
SORACOM
Door
IPSec VPN
SORACOM
Gate
SORACOM Core network
100.65.x.y/24(per customer)
Customer network
say 172.16.0.0
Device network
10.127.0.0/9 NAT
Peer
(VPN)
Device network(Overlay with VXLAN)
10.127.0.0/9

43. Still lot to cover but…

44. •Devices and networks are parts of your application.
•And they are often so constrained, so you have to
manage them.
•SORACOM provides a series of functionalities
which help you to develop IoT application!
In the IoT world…

45. CloudNetworkThings
Wired-LAN, WiFi
Physical Installation and Client configuration
3G/LTE
Looks good, but still have constraints in its complicated
contract…
Security
Encryption is hard to afford for small
devices.
Management
What if # of devices goes thousands and
millions…?
Connectivity Security
Management
Radio access network services
SORACOM Airfor Cellular
for LoRaWAN
for Sigfox
Application services
SORACOM Beam / Funnel / Harvest / Endorse
Establishing a secure and closed network to your cloud.
SORACOM Canal / Direct / Door
Network in depth
SORACOM Junction
Managing devices
SORACOM Gate / Inventory

46. SORACOM
The secure, scalable, simple platform for your Internet Of Things.