A Guildford-founded Internet of Things company that provides cellular and eSIM connectivity so that devices such as coffee machines and EV chargers can stay online around the world.
Eseye is a company that connects machines to the internet. Its work is the Internet of Things (IoT), the name for everyday objects, from coffee machines to electric vehicle chargers to medical monitors, that send information over mobile networks. Eseye supplies the special SIM cards, eSIM technology and management software that let those devices find a signal wherever they are in the world. Its own website says it connects devices across more than 190 countries and 800 networks. The company's slogan is "Nobody does IoT better", and it says every project starts with the device.
Eseye was founded in 2007 by Paul Marshall and Ian Marsden, who had earlier worked on Zigbee, a wireless standard used in a very large number of devices. According to a 2020 interview, the company began with communication and software engineers in Guildford, Surrey, and later chief executive Nick Earle, who had worked at Cisco and HP, led it. Its products include AnyNet+ Global IoT SIM, which can switch between mobile networks to keep a device online, and the Infinity IoT platform for managing connections. Customers named on its site include Shell Recharge, Amazon and Costa Coffee, whose Costa Express machines it connects.
Eseye says its mission is to deliver truly global cellular connectivity for IoT devices, which the 2020 interview described as the "holy grail" of IoT. Its three stated values are "We speak honestly", "We fear nothing" and "We commit, and stay committed". These are the company's own words and give a flavour of how it wants to treat customers: be straight, take on difficult briefs and stay until the job is done.
Its UK roots are in Guildford, Surrey, which is in the south-east of England close to the A3 and the rail line to London Waterloo. We did not find a current list of its offices on the pages we could read, so check the website for up-to-date addresses. The company's site also mentions support teams that work around the clock and a team it calls "global business leaders, technical innovators and IoT pioneers". That is the company's description and not something we have checked independently.
People at a business like Eseye work as embedded and software engineers, network and security specialists, customer support engineers who help keep devices online, product managers, and sales and account teams who explain the technology to businesses. If you like electronics, coding or solving puzzles about why a device will not connect, it is a close match. Maths, computing, physics and design and technology are all useful, and so is being clear and honest when explaining a problem, which is what the company says it values.
Website: www.eseye.com
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