Telecoms infrastructure provider Globalstar has added GSatSolar to its industrial IoT asset tracking portfolio.

Offered in partnership with Global Satellite Engineering (GSE), the small, rugged, low-cost tracking device helps VARs and users increase the value of their tracking software tools by increasing the number of trackable assets in near-real time.

Suitable for remote IoT operations, the satellite powered device allows for a greater number of trackable assets, providing more reliable usable data in the field, improving efficiency, and allowing for true remote IoT autonomous data collection.

“GSatSolar is a low-cost option to monitor assets remotely on the Globalstar LEO network and delivers a plethora of verified IoT data across IoT applications,” said Jake Rembert, vice president of sales at Globalstar. “The GSatSolar is versatile and expands our satellite tracking capabilities. As with all our IoT asset tracking options, it features low power, long life and is equipped to perform.”

GSatSolar is durable, heat and cold resistant, and minimally invasive regarding antenna performance. Its compact size makes it viable with several flexible mounting options to fit the needs across various enterprise industrial applications. With its solar panel and internal battery, a standard unit reports for years assuming an environment with regular sun exposure.

Data collection capabilities include location, accelerometer and Bluetooth sensors, with the option of having data forwarded either to Globalstar’s Spot My Globalstar data management and mapping platform – with features such as live and historical tracking on demand, alerts, geofences and shared views – or directly to a VAR’s back office or user endpoint.

Globalstar (www.globalstar.com) empowers its customers to connect, transmit and communicate in smarter ways, offering satellite and terrestrial connectivity as an international telecom infrastructure provider. The company’s LEO satellite constellation assures secure data transmission for connecting and protecting assets, transmitting critical operational data, and saving lives – from any location – for consumers, businesses and government agencies across the globe.

Globalstar’s terrestrial spectrum, Band 53, and its 5G variant, n53, offers carriers, cable companies and system integrators a versatile, licensed channel for private networks with a growing ecosystem to improve user wireless connectivity, while Globalstar’s XComp technology offers capacity gains in dense wireless deployments. In addition to Spot GPS messengers, Globalstar offers IoT hardware and software for tracking and monitoring assets, processing smart data at the edge, and managing analytics with cloud-based telematics.