Better global IoT connectivity for construction and heavy equipment

Onomondo’s industrial-grade IoT SIM cards are rated from -40°C to +105°C with 15-year data retention and come as a plastic SIM or a solderable MFF2, which ships industrial only. If you’d rather have no card at all, SoftSIM runs on the radio module, so there’s no holder or tray to shake loose and no SIM for anyone to remove and reuse. These M2M SIM cards carry data and SMS only, with no voice or phone number.

Onomondo SIM cards are non-steered: they ship with no preset operator list, so the modem attaches to the strongest of 680+ networks in 180+ countries on each site, whether that’s a remote quarry or a city center build, and switches when the signal changes. For rental fleets and machines sold across borders, the same SIM, SKU, and APN work in every market, and devices attach as always roaming by design, so a machine that stays abroad for years isn’t cut off.

Not with Magic Mode: you pay only for SIMs that connect within a month, so trackers in stock and machines parked between hires or over winter don’t accrue cost. SIMs arrive active with no fees before first connection, so there’s no decision to make about when to activate units sitting in stock. Data is pay as you go per MB with no bundles or minimums, and data limits and cost alerts per SIM keep spend predictable, including when a yearly firmware update goes out to the whole fleet.

Signaling Logs show the packets exchanged between the local network and Onomondo, Network Logs show every attach attempt with the network, technology, and the reason for any authentication failure, and Traffic Monitor captures every packet to and from the device. Nothing is installed on the telematics unit, so you check from your desk before anyone drives to site, and most debugging happens on the platform without a support ticket.

That depends on the modem, not the SIM. A unit that only supports 2G or 3G loses service when the local network is switched off, and an excavator works for about 10,000 hours, so hardware fitted today will see at least one European 2G sunset. Onomondo covers 2G, 3G, 4G, LTE-M, NB-IoT, and 5G NSA on one profile, so whichever network technologies you design in, the coverage is there. Our sunset table lists 2G and 3G sunset dates per network, so you can check them before you commit to a fallback technology.

The SIM won’t be the reason it stops. Onomondo SIMs are non-steered and attach to the strongest available network wherever the machine ends up, including across a border, with no time-limited roaming agreement to cut the connection. Cell tower location gives you a position when GPS is blocked or the antenna is removed. Whether the tracker survives being found and removed is down to your hardware design.