SM/UDP messaging service

The SM/UDP (Short Message/User Datagram Protocol) service lets you send and receive SM/UDP messages between Remote Manager and your devices. You must enable SM/UDP support for each device before you can send SM/UDP messages.

SM/UDP uses the very small data footprint of Remote Manager SM protocol over UDP. Devices with limited data plans can keep data traffic to a minimum by only occasionally sending data readings to Remote Manager. For example, you can set up a device to use SM/UDP to send sensor readings to Remote Manager once a night. This type of message is queued because some devices are not publicly addressable.

To keep data usage to a minimum, SM/UDP messages are not guaranteed-delivery. When writing applications that use SM/UDP, build in retry logic.