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Zero Touch Provisioning in the Field
Eliminate manual intervention and automatically configure devices in the field to scale device deployment across any locations.
Introduction
Provision your devices Over-the-Air
SEALSQ Zero Touch Provisioning provides an out-of-the-box, simple and cost effective way to provision over-the air and securely digital certificates and private key in the device directly in the field, thus significantly minimizing the operational burden and simplifying the supply chain and connection to the IoT platform.
Key Benefits
Supply Chain
Manage your device manufacturing supply chain without prior knowledge of where the device will ultimately connect.
Scalability
The onboarding and registration of the devices are done programmatically and in large quantities, usually separated by manufacturing batches. This simplifies onboarding a large number of devices
Trusted
INeS ZTP service is a known and trusted authority that the device can fall back to during factory resets, transfer of device ownership, and decommissioning.
Service
INeS ZTP may also provide value-add services such as remote attestation, third-party Certificate Authorities
Cloud Based
Cloud-based field provisioning is a good approach for large scale deployments, as it enables cost effective and efficient scaling, even for millions of devices.
With cloud-based field provisioning, the device is given some minimal identity at manufacturing time, but it is not given a complete identity until it is first installed by the end user in the field. This is required if the identity of the device cannot be completely known until it is deployed.
Zero Touch Field Provisioning
Certificate-based identities offer the necessary foundation for a secure zero-touch provisioning with different IoT platforms and cloud services. This is achieved through the enrolment of additional local certificates (LDevID), called also birth certificates attesting device ownership by a customer and using these identities for automatic device provisioning and authentication to the cloud
Key Features
New Device Provisioning at Customer Site
This is the most common use case for Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP). It allows for the automatic provisioning of new devices without any manual intervention.New Device Provisioning within Service Provider’s Infrastructure
ZTP can automate the provisioning of network devices within the service provider’s infrastructure, such as cell site routers
Software Upgrades & Patches
ZTP is often used to streamline the process of deploying software upgrades, patches, and bug fixes.
Internet of Things (IoT) Deployments
With the growth of IoT, network managers are using zero-touch configuration to manage their deployments at scale. It allows them to configure or modify hundreds or even thousands of devices remotely.
Fast and Easy Bulk Device Provisioning
IT admins can use zero-touch configuration for fast and easy bulk device provisioning, enrollment, and onboarding.
Deploy standardized solutions
with certificate based device identities (like iDevID, lDevID from IEEE standard 802.1_AR, certificate standards EST from RC7030, X.509)
Digital identity provisioning and zero-touch onboarding for IoT
Zero Touch provisioning is an automatic and secure way to onboard devices in any IoT cloud platform that uses X.509 authentication technology.