Fixed-licence mobile device management for local government: kiosk mode, remote policies, app deployment, lost-device wipe and UK support. Proven with London borough councils.
Lock down, configure and support every frontline device from one console — on a fixed annual licence, not a per-device fee.
Councils run fleets of Android tablets and handsets for housing officers, social workers, parking enforcement, libraries, waste crews and passenger transport. NHZ Global supplies a customised mobile device management (MDM) platform built on the open-source Headwind MDM core, extended with our own plug-ins for public-sector field work, and licensed with a UK support contract. It is in service with London borough councils today.
Commercial MDM suites are priced per device per month, so a borough with a few hundred devices pays tens of thousands a year for features it never uses, through a vendor it never speaks to. Without MDM at all, devices drift: staff change settings, install personal apps, miss updates, and a lost tablet becomes a data-protection incident. Council IT teams need something that fits public-sector procurement, can be supported locally and does exactly what frontline services need.
| Typical commercial MDM | NHZ council MDM | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Per device, per month, rising at renewal | Fixed annual licence per council |
| Customisation | Feature requests to a roadmap | Plug-ins built for your workflows |
| Support | Vendor portal, overseas hours | UK helpdesk, named engineer, on-site if needed |
| Hosting | Vendor cloud only | Your data centre or UK cloud |
| Procurement | Reseller chain | Direct supplier; existing London borough supplier status |
See how this works in practice in our council MDM case study, and how it pairs with Sendtra for transport teams.
Android phones, tablets and rugged handhelds from Android 6 onwards, including Samsung Knox-capable devices. We advise on device selection for each service.
Yes — encrypted transport, role-based console access, full audit log, and the option to host entirely inside the council's own network. We complete security questionnaires and supply data-processing terms as standard.
Yes. Devices are grouped by service with their own policies, apps and administrators, all in one console.
Lock it, show a return message, locate it and, if necessary, wipe it remotely from the console within seconds.
A fixed annual licence for the council rather than a per-device subscription. For estates of a few hundred devices the saving against commercial MDM is usually substantial; ask us for a like-for-like comparison.
Projects where we've delivered this kind of work.
Local government NHZ Global supplied and customised a mobile device management platform that lets a London borough council's IT team lock down, configure and support frontline Android devices from one console — later licensed to a second borough.
Local government / passenger transport Councils run hundreds of daily home-to-school journeys for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Sendtra gives the transport office one place to plan routes, allocate drivers and passenger assistants, and see every journey happening — with a driver app that replaces paper run sheets.
Smart cities / Transportation A city centre's traffic signals were still running fixed timing plans set years earlier, with hundreds of junctions operating independently. We built a coordinated, AI-assisted traffic-management platform that adapts signal timing in real time to what is actually on the road.
A short discovery call, then a written plan with firm costs. Most clients have a proposal within a week.
