What Is eSIM?

While traditional SIM cards remain critical to consumer mobile devices and IoT applications, the market continues evolving. The embedded SIM (eSIM), which is more suitable for IoT deployments, may ultimately replace the removable SIM. No matter when the switch between SIM and eSIM will occur, examining some benefits of eSIM for IoT is helpful.

The two primary characteristics of eSIM are:

• The form factor and packaging technology are better adapted to IoT
• eSIM offers the possibility to configure and provision subscriptions remotely