Silicon Valley Company Roambee Joins Forces with T-Systems to Lead the Global Smart Logistics and Asset Monitoring Market

SANTA CLARA, California and BONN, Germany, January 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

• Roambee's solutions for smart logistics and smart asset monitoring to be used on T-Systems' Platform
• Partners will jointly transform and digitize global enterprises in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe with IoT-centric solutions
• Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments invests $3.1M in Roambee

With a vision to digitize global enterprises, T-Systems is on an Internet of Things (IoT) growth path: Deutsche Telekom's corporate customer arm, T-Systems, and Silicon Valley-based IoT company, Roambee, today announced a global IoT partnership to offer a real-time visibility solution for goods and assets in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Together, employing an "on-demand" pay-per-use business model, the two companies are delivering an end-to-end solution featuring real time visibility, tracking, and condition monitoring of shipments and assets in-transit and in-field. Roambee will provide pre-built Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications that include wireless portable sensor devices and cloud-based software, robust reporting, and predictive analytics. The solution will be provided on T-Systems' highly scalable platform, and offers access to a global infrastructure of highly-secured data centers and cloud solutions from a wide partner ecosystem.

Furthermore, Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments, recently led the Series B round by investing $3.1M in Roambee.

"Roambee's fast-to-deploy-and-to-scale solution adds a strong value to our IoT partner ecosystem globally. Combined with T-Systems' infrastructure and system integration expertise, we will now jointly enable and transform industries worldwide with IoT applications," said Anette Bronder, Director of T-Systems' Digital Division.

Paul Warrenfelt, T-Systems' SVP Sales and Service Management Region Americas and APAC, and Managing Director North America, also noted, "Any transformation to Industry 4.0 is incomplete without a scalable IoT solution, a secure cloud infrastructure, and a global deployment team. I am so excited about the amazing collection of products, services and technologies we are jointly bringing to market that will help enterprises improve efficiency to achieve operational excellence."