Esper

Esper offers a cloud-based platform for the deployment, monitoring, and management of Android devices and apps, including the following:

• Kiosks
• Rugged
• POS (point of sale)
• Smartphones
• Tablets
• Telehealth
• Smart fitness
• ELDs (electronic logging devices)
• Student devices
• Digital signage

Esper serves companies in the education, retail, transportation and logistics, hospitality, and healthcare sectors.

Using telemetric data, Esper’s platform allows users to respond to device state changes as they occur and provides insights into processes. This includes alterations in the health and performance of apps, configurations, battery, network, data usage, OS, firmware, and more.

The platform also offers a suite of developer tools and Esper's custom operating system, Esper Enhanced Android. Esper’s APIs (application programming interfaces), SDKs (software development kits), CLI (command line interface), and IDE (integrated development environment) plugin can be employed by users to build and deploy custom apps and cloud integrations.

The platform also enables the automation of deployment rollouts by pipeline stage, device group, or success criteria.

Esper offers the same full-stack Android app development and device management from the cloud, to help developers build, deploy, and debug cloud-connected applications running on Android devices. This includes tools such as a Cloud API for app and dedicated device management solutions and automation solutions or ability for users to build custom-tailored DevOps dashboard.

The cloud-based tools also offer the Esper CLI, or command line interface for the Esper APIs with source code. It offers a virtual device lab, which can allow developers to simulate real-world performance of devices, apps, configurations, and peripherals, and can be used to improve test and performance optimization at each stage of the product development lifecycle.

Esper offers an Android platform that automates provisioning, configuring, deploying, and monitoring for retail purpose-built Android devices from a single dashboard. The use cases for this kind of platform include retail point-of-sale systems, backend operations, customer self-service, customer engagement, in-store promotions, management oversight, shopping carts, and inventory management. This can provide users with:

• Customized retail configurations
• Capability for validating, testing, and developing efficient workflows for software and hardware compatibility
• Can protect customer data
• Real-time telemetry and reports to track device use, apps performance, and device health
• Increase operational efficiency
• Remote support and debugging

Esper also offers an Android-based kiosk that can allow users to securely deploy kiosks and allow those kiosks to lock and not be tampered with remotely. This can allow users to deploy kiosks for self-serve ordering, student tablets, customer bill payments, telemedicine, mobile point-of-sale, electronic logging devices, interactive signage, customer loyalty programs, and healthcare screenings.

Esper offers four pricing plans: Starter, Essential, Pro, and Enterprise.

The Starter plan is free and suitable for fleets of 100 devices or less. It comes with five Esper user licenses. The Starter plan includes the following features:

• Remote device management

• Application management

• App deployment pipelines

• Android Studio plugin and SDKs

• Analytics reporting

According to Esper, this plan is best suited for managing medium to large device fleets. This plan starts at $4 per month and comes with ten Esper user licenses. The Essential plan includes the following features:

• Remote device management

• Application management

• Device telemetry and alerting

• Device provisioning

• Device geofencing

Esper advises that the Pro plan is suitable for building, testing, and deploying device fleets of any size. This plan starts at $6 per month and comes with ten Esper user licenses. The Pro plan includes the following features:

• 50MB of application storage

• Pipeline builder

• Full access to API and SDKs

• Dynamic grouping

• Flexible fleet configuration

• Self-service dashboarding

Esper's pricing plan lineup also includes the custom Enterprise plan, which is adjusted according to the specific requirements of large device fleets.

Esper partners with chipset vendors, ODMs (original design manufacturers), CMs (contract manufacturers), OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), and application vendors.