Case Study
Manage inventory and provision services for tens of thousands of devices across 40 locations, cutting costs by 50%
Sentinel is one of America’s largest providers of electronic monitoring services and technologies. The company distributes tens of thousands of loT-enabled ankle bracelets every year from 40 locations nationwide.
Challenges
Sentinel needed a scalable, cost efficient tool that delivered visibility into devices and spend.
- Reams of invoices from carriers were used to track and manage each device.
- Fixed contract rate plans for its devices, limiting its ability to modify plans as their needs changed.
- No reporting on inventory or cost, and no way to automatically place orders.
- Limited visibility and no alerts tracking individual device usage. Paying for monitoring units regardless of activation date.
Company
Sentinal
Industry
Security
Devices under management
7,000+
Carriers under management
19+
Spend under management
$1.14M
Working with vCom
vCom worked with Sentinel to deploy a best-in-class inventory management and service provisioning cloud platform – thereby cutting costs by up to 50%.
- vCom and Sentinel went on to develop an enhanced monitoring platform, introducing Bluetooth, WiFi and 4G/LTE to improve geolocation.
- vCom deployed a cloud-based platform enabling Sentinel to track devices deep inside large facilities and while roaming.
vCom provides solutions and assists in areas that I previously would have never thought to ask about. It’s a one-stop shop for almost every IT management service that you can think of, and then some.
Andrew Anderson
Telecommunications manager, Sentinel
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