The standardised QoD Mobile API allows you to control your customers mobile connectivity so you can focus on creating the best possible user experiences.
This exposure allows you to develop new functionalities for your services that require a more precise control of the connectivity quality. This makes it easier to improve the user experience regardless of the telecommunications carrier to which the customer subscribes.
Thanks to the integration of the QoD Mobile API, it is possible to develop new services that require advanced network capabilities, in terms of availability, security or performance (latency and throughput). Thus, it is possible to develop new functionalities while ensuring the correct functioning and a stable connection for your users.
In addition, QoD Mobiles Unified API Access feature guarantees you access to the network capabilities of different carriers through a single, standardised interface.
The QoD Mobile service enables you to activate the network configuration that best suits the needs of your applications in real time. This means, for example, the ability to trigger a short pulse with high throughput or temporary control over jitter or maximum latency.
Your customers will enjoy the enhanced services you build with the capabilities offered by the QoD Mobile service without noticing that their network has been modified. This allows you to sell advanced functionalities making it easier for users to avoid unwanted network problems.
Integrating the QoD Mobile API allows you to offer a service that reduces the number of complaints from your customers due to network problems, as you can control and monitor network conditions and adapt to them whenever your applications are used. This will improve the relationship you have with your customers, avoiding bad experiences and complicated procedures.
As it is a standardised API, you can integrate the QoD Mobile service into your applications without the need to customise implementations for each carrier. This simplifies the development process and reduces time to market.
With the QoD service, you can easily configure your clients network with just a couple of lines of code. You wont have to guess and discover the network capabilities available to your users and you can focus on whats most important to your business.
The channel partners distributing the QoD service have worked with the telcos to unify the development experience, so that you can consume the service in the same way you are used to with other services. They have all the SDKs, management, monitoring and troubleshooting tools you may need.
Faster and more stable online gaming
The online gaming industry has experienced significant growth, particularly in the mobile gaming segment. Extremely low latency, higher bandwidth and much higher network speeds than today are the keys that will shape the industry in the coming years. The QoD Mobile API can detect when the network does not offer the level of quality required by the game and trigger a connectivity boost to improve the end player's experience.
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Enriched entertainment experiences
Enhancing both live and recorded entertainment experiences is a challenge for developers. Watching football matches from different angles, complementing live match viewing with additional online content and other functionalities transform the way users experience sporting events. With the QoD Mobile API you can offer, for example, real-time summaries and replays of popular live events. Thanks to the advanced network capabilities offered by this service, it is possible to deliver these video clips quickly and without interruption regardless of network congestion.
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Surgery with immersive technologies
Extended Reality (XR) technology is finding increasing acceptance and application in various fields of surgery. Its use enables doctors to perform crucial life-saving procedures and operations, as well as to remotely operate and broadcast their operations. This improves health care in unimaginable ways. The QoD Mobile API offers developers the possibility to create services that will optimise the work of medical staff by enabling lower and higher latency on all high-quality video travelling over the network.
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Enhanced e-learning
Our lifestyles are changing and are increasingly based on online experiences. One of the sectors that has been most affected in this respect is education and training. Thanks to the evolution of online training, users have the opportunity to easily access educational content and improve their career profile. In fact, e-learning is becoming a valuable tool for bridging the global skills gap. Webinars are the preferred online training format for professionals, and other learning formats using XR technology are already being developed for specific trainings. Integrating the QoD Mobile API facilitates the development of training solutions with guaranteed high-quality image and video interacting with the network.
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Digitalisation of industry 4.0
Industry and the manufacturing sector have shown a continuous growth trend in recent years, thanks to digitalisation and automation. These processes pose many challenges to this type of business, such as the flexible production of customised products, electrification of industries, reliable supply chain tracking or drone delivery. Video playback capability and constant real-time connectivity are key to the successful development of such processes, applied, for example, to the evolution of digital twins, drone control and automated surveillance systems with robots and AGVs. The QoD Mobile API provides the ability to interact with the network in real time to facilitate better traffic quality and more reliable and consistent connectivity.
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New design and construction models
Augmented reality offers significant value in the fields of construction and design, as it facilitates the visualisation of architectural designs superimposed on real environments, improving project understanding and decision making. It also allows construction teams to detect potential problems before construction starts, reducing errors and costs; or to streamline communication and collaboration between architects, engineers and contractors. It also improves the safety of construction processes by providing accurate instructions and hazard alerts.
The integration of the QoD Mobile API in different services designed to improve these processes, facilitates the ability to deliver high throughput to devices by improving the user experience and ensuring application performance.
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Streaming with AI
Cinfo is a company specialising in artificial intelligence, 5G and video technologies that aims to democratise the production of all types of events. With this vision, it wanted to create an affordable system for high-quality streaming, using AI-controlled cameras to simplify workflows and reduce errors and costs. These solutions are very sensitive to connectivity, latency of quality parameters and jitter. By integrating the QoD Mobile API, it makes it easy for its AI to process frames at the FPS rate of the capture stream during a live event. The result is a live sports broadcast, captured by AI, with no video freeze and no loss of pixels or frames.
The evolution of 5G online gaming
Blacknut is a cloud-based gaming service that offers its subscribers unlimited access to over 500 games and multi-device capability. Players need stable connectivity at key moments, and lag, jitter and buffering are major issues that Blacknut wanted to eliminate from their experience. So, with Vonage, we implemented the QoD Mobile service to facilitate higher quality games. With this, Blacknut users can enjoy solid speed, super-fast response times and ultra-low latency, providing a superior experience.
Remote surgery with XR
ApoQlar's VSI HoloMedicine is a medical software platform with a feature that builds a 3D volumetric image based on real-world patient scans, which a doctor can view remotely using HoloLens glasses. This system requires robust connectivity, as the 3D volumetric model rendering needs a very reliable connection with stable latency and bandwidth. Integrating the QoD Mobile API, through Microsofts HoloLens hardware, facilitates the rendering quality of 3D images. This improves the video, with no freezing of the image and better resolution, providing a better experience for the doctor preparing for surgery.
Online training with advanced webinars
Zoom is a video room service offering different communication services for business meetings, simultaneous virtual rooms and webinars. By evolving its services, it aims to be able to provide better connectivity to its pay users and offer other premium services to its users with higher quality in order to increase the number of subscribers. These advanced capabilities and premium services require specific network parameters. By integrating the QoD Mobile API, it is possible to enhance the webinar experience and other online formats, allowing room hosts to activate, for example, HD mode, to automatically raise the quality of presentations and stabilise connectivity.
Sporting events with immersive technology
YBVR is a startup that creates immersive real-time experiences for sports broadcasts using cutting-edge technology such as virtual reality. Among its solutions is YB Arena which offers fans multi-camera access functionality within the same sports venue. Such services require low latency between devices, optimised bandwidth and support for a large volume of devices. By integrating the QoD Mobile API through AWS Wavelength technology, YB Arena leverages the advanced capabilities of the network to provide stable connectivity and enhanced image rendering, delivering high-quality, uninterrupted broadcasting.
High-level connectivity
Mi Movistar is a private area for customers, where they can access information about their contracted services and their settings. Recently, it has integrated Smart Mobile functionality within its application, so that its users can enable even better connectivity. The QoD Mobile API has made it possible to include this tool, using traffic transport resource planning, optimisation and allocation capabilities. Users can now optimise their network connection for a better experience when in busy environments, downloading large files or using bandwidth-hungry digital services.
Enhanced immersive entertainment
Yerba Buena Virtual Reality (YBVR) is a company that markets streaming immersive video experiences for virtual reality glasses. YBVR Arena allows its users to enjoy immersive sporting events in the stadium via their mobile phones. It thus caters for the new consumer habits in the entertainment and sports sector, which is seeing an increasing demand for immersive and participatory formats. Thanks to the integration of the QoD Mobile API, and the use of AWS Wavelength technology, it can control the mobile connectivity of its users to facilitate the advanced capabilities required for these kinds of digital services. This ensures a smooth, fast, uninterrupted and lag-free experience and the best possible image quality.
Optimised connectivity in drone flights
Along their flight path, drones often need to transmit real-time data, such as live video, telemetry or other critical data. Maintaining appropriate network quality ensures that this data arrives without interruption and that the drone can perform its mission successfully. The QoD Mobile API enables more precise control of the quality of mobile connectivity. In this way, it optimises the video streaming experience and ensures a sharper picture even in adverse network situations, such as highly congested environments.
Allows it easy to integrate mobile carrier payment into any application. This increases the security and speed of transactions.
It verifies the geographical location of a given SIM-based device and validating whether it’s within a requested geographical area without spoofing or GPS theft. This allows to enable services or allow transactions in a safer way.
Provides a mechanism to automatically verify whether a user is interacting via a device that has a SIM card associated with a certain phone number (MSISDN). This means that the user doesn´t have to enter any kind of credential or one-time password (OTP).
The Dynamic Airspace Connectivity Data API offers data on the connectivity the network provides in the airspace for a specific date and time, providing information on the coverage status of a given area.
The Population Density Data API provides dynamic data on population density in a specific space and time. This allows for the identification of less crowded areas and safer drone routes.
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ACCESS QOD MOBILE
Once registered and with your credentials, you will be able to access the QOD MOBILE API on registered carriers by making API calls through your chosen Channel Partner's gateway.
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As a developer, you will be able to consume this API either by using the HTTP protocol to perform requests to its standard Camara version on the API exposure platform of your provider of choice (availability will be indicated soon) or by integrating in your app the SDKs provided by those, which will make it simpler for you to authenticate, perform operations and handle results in the same programming language you are using.
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The CAMARA QoD Mobile API is a standardised API that allows you to activate the most convenient network policies for your clients mobile connection on their behalf.
CAMARA, the open-source project led by the Linux Foundation in collaboration with the GSMA, aims to universalise network APIs under the same standards for all telecommunications companies.
The GSMA plays a key role in setting quality of service standards and guidelines, ensuring consistency and interoperability among all telecommunications companies that have adopted the Open Gateway project.
QoD Mobile adds value for customers by enabling them to manage their network and automatically and seamlessly adapt it to the needs of the applications and services it offers.
The standardised API provides a uniform policy catalogue and access to telco capabilities, ensuring consistent session creation regardless of the telco involved.
The QoD Mobile API supports 3GPP cellular networks, both 4G and 5G.
Yes, customers whose network is to be managed by the QoD service must be subscribed to one of the telecommunications companies that have adopted the Open Gateway project.
By consuming the service, businesses can create new services with the confidence that they will have the network needs they require.
QoD Mobile complies with European GDPR and Net Neutrality regulations.
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