UK asset tracking firm Foresolutions is bringing IoT devices from Australia’s Digital Matter to niche markets within construction, fleet and transportation.

The robust battery-powered IoT devices are being used to track, monitor and manage a range of assets in fleet, aviation, transportation, housing, agriculture, construction, manufacturing and other markets.

As new business cases emerge for the IoT as device and connectivity costs continue to decrease, businesses are able to broaden the range of assets they track. Foresolutions is using Digital Matter’s battery-powered LTE-M and NB-IoT Oyster2 devices as well as smaller Yabby devices to track business assets that traditionally were not commercially viable to track.

In the past, for example, construction companies would only put GPS trackers on heavy equipment. Today, they are tracking all types of smaller tools, including hand trucks, hand rollers, shovels and more, helping reduce theft, optimise use and improve efficiency.

Foresolutions provides GPS tracking and telematics to a wide range of organisations in both the public and private sectors, helping companies with complex operational environments to solve their asset tracking and IoT problems.

“We’re really excited about using Digital Matter devices in more innovative use cases, such as portable toilets, tools, construction equipment, non-powered assets, ground service equipment, plant and machinery,” said Imogen Ross, operations director at Foresolutions. “These are the areas we are really exploring and where we see our partnership developing. Using Digital Matter’s robust range of long-life battery-powered devices, we are now able to build out more scalable, lower-cost asset tracking for our clients.”

By assisting its customers in building strategies and implementations to locate and monitor all their mobile assets, Foresolutions allows them to regain control of their operational environment. Digital Matter devices seamlessly integrate with the Foresolutions platform.

“Foresolutions required very high-quality, robust devices with long battery life and Digital Matter was able to deliver at scale for all of the use cases and applications it was approaching,” said Ken Everett, CEO of Digital Matter. “Foresolutions is continually pushing the boundaries of what IoT can accomplish and we’re pleased to be partnering with such an innovative company.”

Digital Matter is a developer of low-power GPS and IoT hardware for asset tracking and management applications. It offers a range of LPWAN asset tracking hardware with a portfolio of integration-ready battery-powered asset tracking devices across a range of connectivity technologies. With over 20 years of telematics experience and more than 500 channel partners across 120 countries, Digital Matter supplies and supports scalable and secure devices for telematics businesses, IoT providers, enterprises and network operators.