Industrial connectivity has shifted. For years, most projects relied on bolt-on 4G or 5G routers sitting in cabinets or clipped to DIN rails. It worked, but it was never elegant. As equipment manufacturers look for tighter integration, lower power draw, and faster time-to-market, embedded cellular has become the natural evolution.
Proroute is moving with that change.
After more than a decade supplying industrial M2M hardware, antennas, and connectivity, we’ve evolved into a provider of embedded cellular solutions built for OEMs, developers, and manufacturers who want connectivity engineered into their products from day one rather than added as an afterthought.
This new direction reflects where the industry is heading: a world where machinery, sensors, equipment, and control systems all include connectivity at the board level, offering deeper control, lower costs, and cleaner design.
A standalone router is perfect in many projects, but it comes with overhead: extra wiring, extra power, a second enclosure, and another item to integrate. When you embed the cellular module directly onto your PCB or incorporate a ready-made embedded board, you strip all of that away.
You get:
Lower power usage
Smaller footprint
Direct hardware/software integration
Faster boot and data acquisition
Lower overall project costs
One less device to mount, power, and update
Most importantly, you get connectivity that’s part of the product’s DNA — not bolted on at the end.
This is exactly what OEMs want in 2025: connectivity that is predictable, controllable, and scalable.
The older Proroute model was simple: supply industrial routers to resellers. Useful. But limiting. It didn’t support the customers designing next-generation equipment that needed tight, board-level integration.
The new model is different.
Manufacturers come to us at the feasibility or early prototyping stage. We help choose the right connectivity path:
Each technology has a different power profile, behaviour, and cost. Getting that right early prevents expensive rework later.
Using our embedded boards and engineering partners, we support:
We’re not a design bureau in the traditional sense, but we sit in the sweet spot between hardware supplier and engineering partner. Enough expertise to guide the build. Not so big that we drown projects in process.
As the prototype becomes real hardware, we assist with:
Manufacturers get a clear understanding of performance and data behaviour before scaling.
When the design locks in, we supply:
Everything stays tidy and predictable.
Projects evolve, markets shift, and modules change. We stay involved for the long-term:
Manufacturers know they have someone in the UK who understands the hardware and can support it for years, not months.
Proroute now offers a focused, engineer-friendly line of embedded cellular products. No clutter, no catalogue bloat — just the building blocks OEMs actually use.
For cost-sensitive or low-power applications such as meters, sensors, vending, HVAC, EV trickle chargers, and industrial control.
For higher-bandwidth applications: HD video uplink, real-time control, EV charging infrastructure, industrial automation, and security systems.
The new middle ground between 4G and full 5G:
An ideal path for OEMs looking to future-proof.
A critical part of any embedded design. We support:
Every embedded board can ship with connectivity configured and ready.
A carefully selected set of MIMO, omni, adhesive, puck, and embedded antennas — with accurate RF guidance for placement inside enclosures.
Our solutions tend to appear in projects where conventional routers feel oversized or unnecessary. Examples include:
Any place where space, power, and simplicity matter.
This evolution isn’t a rebrand for the sake of it. It reflects the shift across the IoT industry: from buying routers to building connected products that are designed for their environment from day one.
Proroute is now positioned to support manufacturers through:
Straightforward, technical, engineer-friendly.
If you’re building equipment that needs cellular baked in, rather than bolted on, Proroute now provides everything needed to get from initial idea to shipped product.