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Kigen and Simetric enable product teams to make smarter connectivity choices
Bee Hayes-Thakore The collaborative integration of the world’s leading eSIM OS and the most enabling CMP orchestration platform removes the pain by bringing the cross-carrier control plane to a single pane of glass, so you can focus on choosing the best connectivity for your connected product.
Smarter Network Choices for Product Teams
As enterprises evolve and scale their connected product deployments, managing eSIM-based mission-critical connectivity for best plan, service, and availability becomes an operational business challenge that requires foresight and control. Kigen and Simetric are addressing the legacy technical debt and confusion affiliated with eSIM technology head-on, delivering a simplified solution that empowers enterprises to focus on selecting the best connectivity for their use cases.
The Growing Demand for Cost-Effective eSIM Management
The Growing Demand for Cost-Effective eSIM Management
Enterprises are increasingly demanding scalable and cost-effective solutions to manage their device portfolios. This is especially true with eSIMs. Consider these insights:
- According to a study by Juniper Research, the number of global eSIM IoT connections is expected to reach 3.4 billion by 2025, highlighting the urgent need for streamlined management solutions (source).
- A report by Berg Insight states that enterprise adoption of eSIMs in IoT will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30% through 2027, demonstrating strong market traction (source).
- A GSMA Intelligence study also found that 81% of enterprises view eSIM technology as essential to their IoT strategies, emphasizing the need for efficient management platforms (source).
The Visibility Imperative: Rethinking Connectivity in the Era of Intelligent Products
As industries such as logistics, automotive, smart metering, and industrial IoT scale their connected operations, they are rapidly moving away from traditional, single-carrier SIM deployments toward remotely and digitally managed eSIMs.
This shift provides the flexibility to select the best connectivity for each use case—based on coverage, performance, or commercial terms. Yet managing this across diverse carriers, rate plans, billing models, and policy enforcement frameworks presents significant challenges. Most legacy Connectivity Management Platforms (CMPs) were not designed to support the scale, security, or dynamic nature of eSIM technology.
Consider logistics operations, where secure, uninterrupted connectivity is essential to track high-value goods in transit. In automotive, vehicles must adapt seamlessly to networks across borders while supporting services like telematics, diagnostics, and infotainment. Smart metering providers face the task of managing millions of endpoints across jurisdictions—each subject to its own compliance and infrastructure demands.
These are high-stakes environments, and any lack of visibility can have material consequences. Cargo theft alone rose 14% in Q3 2024, resulting in over $39 million in losses across the USA and Canada (source). Beyond the immediate financial impact, these disruptions alter the organization’s threat posture—often eroding brand trust and operational resilience.
Interoperability with secure SM-DP+ provisioning
The emergence of the SGP.32 standard offers a turning point. Enabling broader interoperability with secure SM-DP+ provisioning lowers the barriers that once limited remote SIM management to a few dominant players.
Kigen and Simetric’s collaboration takes this advantage further by consolidating different standards into a unified model, empowering enterprises to manage connectivity securely and at scale. Those leading connected product strategies now have the opportunity to shift from reactive management to strategic oversight—unlocking not just cost efficiencies, but improved service assurance and built-in trust at the connectivity layer.
Elevating Connected Product Strategies with eSIMs and SGP.32
Kigen is pioneering the industry’s transition to SGP.32-compliant eSIMs, introducing the world’s first GSMA-compliant eIM (eSIM IoT remote Manager) capable of leveraging GSMA live certificates. This breakthrough solution enables seamless deployment of advanced metering infrastructure and connected intelligence, accelerating the evolution of smarter utilities and industrial IoT.
With SGP.32 IoT eSIMs, enterprises gain critical operational freedom—the ability to switch connectivity providers based on quality, performance, and business value, all without physical intervention. However, this newfound flexibility also exposes a key operational challenge: legacy CMPs were not built to accommodate enterprise-level controls or to support eSIM-native workflows. As organizations begin evolving their device fleets, they often find themselves fragmented across carriers and unable to manage legacy SIMs and next-generation eSIMs in tandem. Without effective orchestration, the benefits of eSIM can quickly be diluted by complexity and lack of visibility.
This is why SGP.32 and cross-CMP orchestration are fast becoming non-negotiable pillars of any robust connected product strategy. Teams leading digital transformation and product innovation must place these capabilities at the forefront of their roadmap. In the long term, the ability to manage diverse device footprints under a unified, standards-based framework will determine the agility and resilience of connected enterprises.
Simetric is at the forefront of an enterprise’s efforts to manage its distributed networking ecosystem and, as such, is often an initial guide in eSIM adoption guidance. Simetric aligned with Kigen through a shared vision to simplify and secure eSIM lifecycle management at scale. Following a comprehensive evaluation of Kigen’s eSIM and eIM solutions, Simetric recognized their reliability and interoperability, reinforcing a joint commitment to delivering intelligent, secure, and efficient connectivity.
“With Kigen eIM, everything just works—seamlessly. I downloaded a profile, and it worked the first time. I switched between profiles, and it worked flawlessly. This level of reliability and simplicity is exactly what enterprises need to eliminate complexity and confidently manage eSIM connectivity at scale. It’s this high-quality experience that fuels our shared vision: making remote connectivity switching effortless and removing the burden from those who need it most.”
Allen Boone, CEO at Simetric, Inc.
Unifying eSIM Management with Simetric and Kigen Pulse
Designed to meet the evolving needs of IoT at scale, Kigen eIM Solution introduces Kigen Pulse, a platform focused on managing the full state of eSIMs with precision and transparency. At its core are advanced capabilities such as Profile State Management Operations (PSMO) and eIM Configuration Operations (eCO), designed to give connected product teams deeper control over eSIM lifecycle management.
The platform acts as a secure interface to SAS-UP and for SAS-SM, supporting secure profile requests in a way that aligns with cybersecurity best practices, particularly in IoT environments that rely on indirect profile downloads for distributed or constrained devices.
With a single API interface, these capabilities integrate directly into Simetric’s CMP orchestration, connecting granular eSIM control with broader operational insight, supporting teams in making confident, coordinated decisions across their connectivity stack. In combination, the two platforms – Kigen Pulse and Simetric, are able to enhance legacy CMPs with empowering, tailored controls like:
- Advanced analytics and real-time network insights on your SIM and eSIM products
- Multi-account consolidation and unlimited parent-child hierarchies
- Historical data analysis with consolidated ad hoc queries
- Bulk processing for operational efficiency
- Rate plan optimization across deployments
This unified approach enables enterprises to gain complete clarity and control over their device ecosystems, including all their eSIM devices with the necessary controls to ensure cost efficiency and seamless connectivity transitions.
“Simetric seamlessly unifies provisioning, connectivity insights, and profile management into a single pane of glass. Their rapid integration accelerates eSIM migration, giving enterprises the agility to optimize connectivity, reduce complexity, and scale efficiently—while empowering connectivity providers to deliver seamless services.”
– Jean-Louis Carrara, Kigen
API-Rich, Flexible, and Scalable
Kigen and Simetric provide an API-rich environment that integrates directly with existing enterprise systems. Enterprises can purchase these solutions from Kigen or Simetric and use the provided GUI or integrate them into their own business flows.
Instant Clarity, Full Edge Visibility
With Kigen Pulse and Simetric, enterprises achieve instant clarity and complete visibility across all eSIM deployments. The future of eSIM management is here — simple, scalable, and cost-effective.
Get started today
Are you ready to optimize your eSIM connectivity? Get in touch with Kigen and Simetric today to explore how our joint solutions can transform your enterprise connectivity strategy.
About Kigen
Kigen is the forerunner in eSIM and iSIM security-enabled IoT solutions built for scale. An Arm-founded company, Kigen flexibly empowers OEMs with security on leading IoT chipsets and modules and with the world’s leading IoT and LPWAN connectivity providers in up to 200 countries. Our industry-leading SIM OS products enable over 2.5 billion SIMs and complement our GSMA SAS-accredited Remote SIM Provisioning secure service capabilities. Find out more at https://kigen.com/ or join our #FutureofSIM conversation on https://www.linkedin.com/company/kigen/
About Simetric
Simetric is the provider of the most pervasive CMP orchestration and workflow platform across the IoT and edge networking ecosystem. Its patented, bi-modal platform normalizes the operational discrepancies across over 250 cellular and satellite networks to unify the fractured IoT ecosystem into effective workflows with tailored process and device controls for enterprises and MNOs. Its platform enables device lifecycle workflow for millions of devices to enhance operational efficiency, revenue assurance and tailored cybersecurity postures. Simetric offers the only CMP orchestration integration into ServiceNow affording greater IT observability and asset management workflows. To learn more about Simetric and this innovative partnership, contact Simetric via [email protected]
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