Customer profile
Each Census Commissioner's mobile phone was connected to Mobile Device Management with IBM MaaS360 technology. This solution ensured complete control over the status of the device and its security level. Continuous updates of the device content could be made without any disruption to the work of the enumerators.
Baseline and project objectives
Benefits
- Control over the security and operational status of the equipment at all times.
- Unified configuration of all devices.
- Bulk execution of operations from a single location.
- Implementation as a service and thus zero infrastructure requirements.
Solution
The design process needed to address two critical issues, namely security and the process of preparing 10,000 devices that must be fully configured and ready to work at the time of launch.
From a security perspective, the mobile devices were switched to a so-called kiosk mode, which prevents users from accessing the native user interface of the smartphone. This eliminated most of the complications associated with deploying restrictions using policies. An even more interesting challenge was the process of mass producing 10,000 devices. As part of this task, a service interface was developed in Python that used an IMEI barcode reader. Interestingly, the production line workers had never actually encountered the MaaS environment directly. The detailed procedure followed by the workers included 45 elementary tasks and ended with an automated output check.
Within the production operation, the MaaS solution was then operated by trained employees from the ITSM outsourcing division at AUTOCONT. They were thus able to remotely handle the vast majority of situations that arose during the commissioners' work. After the smartphones had done their job, the termination procedure was initiated, with a mass reset to factory settings at the end of the entire project event.
Used technologies
- IBM MaaS360
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