InControl2 IoT Cellular Data Usage

IoT over cellular is very data usage critical. I am using a BR1 Mini with WiFi to connect WiFi connected residential thermostats for energy monitoring in large, low density residential complexes. The reporting takes place every 10 minutes and the data payload is obviously very small. In fact, the data usage is substantially less than the data usage of InControl2. With all reporting options disabled, Health Check disabled and no devices connected to the Mini the cellular carrier is reporting usage of 2MB per day. That is just InControl2 device status overhead. This is simply not viable for IoT sensoring applications. The ability to control the frequency of Pepwave device status reporting is critical for IoT.

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+1 here. I have seen this concern from multiple partners involved in the IoT space.