OptConnect ema:USB is the world’s first smart USB modem for M2M/IoT applications. The ema:USB is a complete high-speed Internet connectivity solution that eliminates delays, complexities, and frustrations of typical cellular deployments.




OptConnect ema:USB is the world’s first smart USB modem for M2M/IoT applications. The ema:USB is a complete high-speed Internet connectivity solution that eliminates delays, complexities, and frustrations of typical cellular deployments.
The ema:USB includes onboard intelligence for monitoring, management, security, reporting, certifications, and autonomous self-healing of lost connections. The ema:USB is truly intelligent, truly managed, and truly monitored – and that makes all the difference.
Easy to Implement and Connect
OptConnect ema:USB is fully certified as an end-user modem, eliminating the need for carrier certification of a customer’s equipment.
The ema:USB helps businesses get to market faster, reduce costs, and increase every project’s success rate. With plug-and-play functionality built right in, the ema:USB offers instant connection to IoT equipment and removes typical stumbling blocks.
emaLink – A proprietary pre-built software interface that allows the equipment to ‘peek’ into the management and monitoring functionality, including:
Glimpse – A unique capability that offers cellular connection status directly on screen, minimizing on-site time.
BoardID – An emaLink command that specifies the Board ID. This custom ID can be used by the customer machine for identification purposes and displayed in Summit.
BoardNotify – Allows any Internet-connected device to share small chunks of data to ema:USB via the Summit API secure channel. This protects the user’s host application from unnecessary sends or poll data, to reduce overall data usage and power consumption.
emaConnect – A ready-to-install USB driver that makes ema:USB truly plug and play for customer machines.
Summit – A robust, cloud-based customer dashboard that simplifies device management from anywhere. Summit APIs also allow integration with an existing platform.
Those needing a cheaper, faster solution to fully embedded connectivity.
OptConnect provides a safe and secure Internet connection via cellular – and a whole lot more. Rather than simply providing the connection to the Internet, OptConnect bundles connectivity with an entire suite of managed services, for greater connectivity uptime and less stress for operators since OptConnect takes care of every necessary component.
With OptConnect’s fully managed solution, operators gain greater peace of mind knowing they have the best available hardware, strongest carrier networks, private IP connections, access to the industry’s best 24 x 7 x 365 customer care center, real-time monitoring and management, data-overage risk mitigation, lifetime warranty, a robust customer portal for device-level monitoring from anywhere, and so much more.
Every OptConnect device including the ema:USB comes with access to Summit, our robust monitoring platform that enables you to have access to your wireless portfolio wherever you go. This platform allows you to conveniently view and manage your devices from
your phone, tablet, or computer.
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