Twilio, the leading cloud communications platform, today announced Trust Onboard, a feature for its IoT SIMs that enables developers to identify and authenticate cellular connected devices against cloud services. Twilio launched Programmable Wireless in April 2018, and has shipped more than a million SIMs that provide global connectivity to IoT developers. With Trust Onboard, Twilio now delivers connectivity, device identification and authentication capabilities on a single SIM, dramatically accelerating IoT time to market. At Microsoft Build, Twilio also announced integration with Azure IoT as part of Microsoft's IoT Plug and Play connectivity, allowing IoT developers to sync devices to their Azure cloud from the Twilio Console, establishing trust as soon as the device comes online.
"Cellular IoT developers are burdened with two major challenges," said Evan Cummack, head of IoT & Wireless at Twilio. "First, developers need to reliably connect large fleets of devices to cellular networks of different types around the world. Twilio's IoT SIMs and Wireless Supernetwork tackle this problem. Then developers need a simple, secure mechanism to exchange data with their devices. Trust Onboard is our first product that helps developers bridge this gap — it's a frictionless way to deploy a large fleet of devices, identify and authenticate each one to the cloud."
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