Trackers

Logistics information plays a crucial role in resolving disputes, supporting insurance claims, and optimizing supply chains for cost savings and improved efficiency. To achieve this, logistics trackers require highly optimized hardware with low power connectivity and location transceivers. Sony’s Altair cellular IoT chipsets are the ideal solution, offering affordable and compact packages that enable long battery life. These chipsets provide low-power, wide-area connectivity, ensuring minimal power consumption and enabling years of battery life. Additionally, they offer real-time data and asset location capabilities. Sony’s Altair chipsets also incorporate the innovative OneSKU™ RF technology, which supports any LTE band combination on a single hardware or module design. This breakthrough feature ensures versatile carrier support and a global solution without increasing the size or cost of the solution.

Asset trackers are primarily designed to monitor and track the location and status of valuable assets or items, such as equipment, vehicles, tools, or high-value goods. Asset tracking IoT solutions require highly optimized hardware providing low power connectivity and location transceivers to enable long battery life, in a small package and at an affordable cost. Sony’s Altair cellular IoT chipsets provide low-power, wide-area connectivity – maintaining the device’s low-power consumption and enabling years of battery life, while offering useful data and asset location in real-time. The small form factor of Sony’s Altair chipsets enable compact, portable devices which are easy to place on any asset. With Sony Altair’s chipsets, companies can make much smarter, data-driven decisions that help reduce cycle-times as well as loss-rates of both assets and goods.

Today’s vehicle telematics device manufacturers are looking for an install-and-forget battery-powered solution that can remain continuously connected while being low power, compact in size, and free of in-vehicle wiring. Sony’s Altair cellular IoT chipset meets these needs, offering the market’s smallest, longest lasting, and most secure connectivity. With over two years of battery life, the chipset enables autonomous operation and vehicle tracking without charging or maintenance. Its small form factor allows discreet placement, reducing the risk of vandalism. The self-powered unit can be easily installed by anyone, minimizing logistical challenges and costs. The integrated chipset includes ultra-low power GNSS location services and secure connectivity for sensors. It also features a CAT-M and NB-IoT modem, a low-power Cortex M4 MCU, and an integrated SIM (iSIM). Launching the device only requires a battery and antenna.

During stressful events, when you lose visibility of your pets, pet trackers enable you to locate them quickly and easily. Pet trackers’ functional capabilities require highly optimized hardware which offers low power connectivity and location transceivers to enable low power consumption and long battery life, in a small package for greater comfort at an affordable cost. Sony’s Altair cellular IoT chipsets are ideal for pet trackers since they are designed from the ground up to enable ultra-low power consumption and feature a HW based security engine with GNSS functionality and an integrated SIM in a miniature-sized SiP.  The ultra-low power consumption of Altair’s chipsets allows the device to last up to 20 days on a single charge, while its compact size allows it to fit easily and unobtrusively on a pet’s collar. In addition, the ALT1250 Long Term Evolution Machine Type Communication (LTE-M) & Narrowband Internet of things (NB-IoT) cellular IoT chipset offers highly secured communication.

Personal trackers provide alerts when people leave a designated safe place or go missing and give the exact GPS location and regular location updates in order to instantly and accurately pinpoint their whereabouts. With geofencing capabilities, a geographic region can be defined with alerts once a person has left the specified area. Additional logic, built into these devices, also enables the tracking and monitoring of health, activity, behavior, and more.  Sony’s Altair cellular IoT chipsets are ideal for personal trackers since they are designed from the ground up to enable ultra-low power consumption and feature a HW based security engine with GNSS functionality and an integrated SIM in a miniature-sized SiP.  They have a small form factor which enables a compact device that can easily be placed on the person and can be removed when needed.