...SkyWave has secured sales of 12,000 IsatData Pro M2M terminals year-to-date. This early sales success validates Inmarsat and SkyWave’s collaboration in the burgeoning M2M market and leads the two companies into new M2M segments such as transportation, Oil & Gas, Utilities and Mining.
IsatData Pro is a jointly developed service that teams SkyWave’s range of terminals with Inmarsat’s global L-band satellite network to offer the highest payload and lowest latency of any L-band satellite store-and-forward service. It is ideal for a wide range of enhanced M2M applications including: SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) communications for systems that monitor gas pipelines and oil wells; and communications to/from telemetry and tracking devices for transport fleet management systems.
“The success of the IsatData Pro service so early on is testament to the fact that both we and SkyWave have listened to customers and developed a solution that combines the highest payload and lowest latency of any L-band satellite store-and-forward service on the market today,” said Ronald Spithout, President, Inmarsat Enterprise. “As well as being a highly cost-effective solution for a wide range of industry sectors, the IsatData Pro service enables organisations to share much richer information in M2M applications than has previously been possible. Satellite is now very much part of a company’s M2M strategy, either for closing gaps in terrestrial coverage or, increasingly, as a way of improving the reliability of M2M communications."