Connectivity that ships inside the camera.
Streamax dashcams, MDVRs and trackers can leave the factory already connected — an automotive-grade eSIM soldered to the board, a data pool shared across the fleet, and the whole lifecycle managed from FT Cloud. One vendor, one SLA, no SIM logistics.
The camera is only as good as its connection.
Three costs show up again and again in fleet deployments, and none of them is on the connectivity invoice.
Clients source their own SIMs
Devices arrive sealed, then get opened again to fit a SIM. Re-packing runs about $10–15 per unit in labour and materials, and the factory can never test an overseas SIM before the device ships.
Plastic SIMs quietly fail
Consumer SIM cards degrade under heat and vibration. Two or three years in, data stops without warning — the camera looks broken, an RMA is raised against the hardware, and the reputational damage lands on you.
The real cost is never in the quote
Truck rolls, re-provisioning and unplanned downtime rarely appear in a procurement budget. One avoided site visit typically pays for months of connectivity.
A SIM you install like an app, not like a card.
An eSIM is a SIM chip built into the device. Instead of pushing in a piece of plastic, the device downloads an operator profile over the air. The underlying architecture is the eUICC — an embedded UICC that can hold several operator profiles at once and switch between them remotely.
Nothing about the device changes for the driver or the installer. What changes is who touches the vehicle: with an eSIM, nobody has to.
How the eUICC and profile switching workFour pieces, one contract.
Hardware, the SIM, the data and the console come from the same place — so when something is wrong, there is nobody to hand you off to.
eSIM chip (MFF2)
An M2M-grade SIM soldered to the device board. No slot, no contacts to corrode, rated −40 °C to +105 °C with a 10-year design life.
DetailsTriple-cut SIM card
The same ruggedised silicon in a removable 2FF / 3FF / 4FF punch-out card, for fleets that need to swap or pre-provision in the field.
DetailsDynamic & static pools
Buy an allowance per device or one fixed block. Either way every device draws from one shared pool — no stranded megabytes, no per-SIM top-ups.
DetailsManaged in FT Cloud
Activate, suspend, deactivate, switch carrier and watch usage from the same console as your video and tracking. No separate telecom portal.
DetailsWhat changes once the SIM is part of the device.
Higher uptime, fewer mystery outages
Automotive-grade silicon tolerates heat and vibration that kills plastic SIMs, so the 2–3 year silent-failure curve does not happen. Fewer phantom camera faults, fewer RMAs, more evidence that actually reaches the cloud.
Zero-touch provisioning
Ship sealed devices. Activate, set the APN and apply policy over the air. Bulk provisioning maps IMEI to ICCID for a whole container at once — weeks out of a rollout.
Carrier agility without a hardware swap
A multi-profile eUICC can be pointed at a different operator over the air. Coverage gaps, roaming costs and 2G/3G sunsets stop being truck-roll events.
Built for video telematics traffic
Private APN and QoS options, pooled data and burst headroom keep alert clips and evidence uploads moving through the spikes — collisions, storm events, audits.
Security and compliance at line level
Private APN or VPN, IMEI lock, SIM-theft prevention and an audit trail per SIM. Policy is set centrally, so field misconfiguration largely disappears.
Diagnostics and cost control
Per-device telemetry on signal, registration state, fallback behaviour and data usage, with alerts, caps and remote suspend or resume. No bill shock at month end.
Count the truck rolls, not the megabytes.
TCO is the complete cost of owning and running an asset across its life — purchase, operation, maintenance and disposal. Connectivity is a small line in it. The expensive lines are the ones a SIM causes.
- No re-packaging fee. Devices are provisioned before they are boxed — nobody opens, fits and re-seals a unit.
- No client labour to source, test and insert SIMs across a container of devices.
- Far fewer site visits from SIM faults. A single avoided truck roll often offsets months of connectivity fees.
- Future-proof. A eUICC can take new radio profiles — LTE-M, NB-IoT, 5G RedCap — as networks change, with no hardware swap.
A 500-device rollout, first year
Illustrative, using a $12 re-pack and a $180 truck roll. Swap in your own figures — the shape holds: the SIM is never the expensive part, the vehicle is.
189 countries, 388 networks, from $1.25/GB.
Profiles are provisioned against a multi-operator footprint, so a vehicle that crosses a border keeps uploading. Data is charged from one pool, not one SIM at a time.
Pick a pool
Per-device allowance that grows with the fleet, or one fixed block of GB per month.
We provision
Profiles loaded and IMEI↔ICCID mapped before the devices leave the line.
You activate
Scan a QR code for one device, or batch-activate a whole inventory list in FT Cloud.
You watch it
Usage, status and alerts sit next to the video — suspend or resume any SIM from the console.
Tell us the routes, we will size the pool.
Send the countries you operate in, the device count, and the footage each vehicle uploads per day. You get back a pool size, a landed price per device per month, and a coverage read for every country on the list.
Published rates are list. Volume, contract term and a multi-region footprint are all worth putting in front of your Customer Success Manager or Business Development Manager before you build a budget from them.
What to send us
- Countries and, if they cross borders, the routes.
- Device count now and at 12 months.
- Device model and whether the SIM is soldered or a plug-in.
- Typical upload per vehicle per day, and what triggers a clip.
- Anything non-standard: private APN, fixed IP, VPN, IMEI lock.