In today’s increasingly connected world, there is a growing demand for a reliable, flexible, precise, and energy-efficient location tracking system. This system is essential for tracking assets and vehicles while ensuring personal safety. It’s crucial to have a unified solution that works seamlessly indoors and outdoors with high accuracy. The combination of Traxmate and Sony’s Altair ALT1350 chipset offers a comprehensive and reliable solution to meet these evolving needs. Developers can now access an all-encompassing, easy-to-implement tracking solution.
The Evolution of Location Tracking Technology
With technological advancements, the increasing use of IoT (Internet of Things) devices, and advanced security and logistics systems, there is a growing demand for more sophisticated, reliable, and versatile tracking solutions. Today, consumers and businesses expect tracking systems to provide precise location data regardless of the environment.
Traxmate has recognized these challenges and market demand and developed a groundbreaking solution with Sony’s Altair and their ALT1350 chipset. This chipset, combined with Traxmate’s services, addresses modern tracking applications’ diverse needs, offering a comprehensive, power-efficient, and cost-effective solution that delivers on the promise of “tracking everything, everywhere.”
Traxmate - the tracking solution enabler
Traxmate is a standalone end-user tracking solution and a fusion platform for seamless indoor and outdoor tracking. It offers flexibility in integrating with any customer solution through Traxmate cloud-to-cloud access or device-to-cloud via low-power-sensitive protocols such as LwM2M channel subscriptions, allowing seamless connectivity and customization to meet specific tracking and data management needs.
This solution’s core is Traxmate’s Location Controller. This flexible and scalable platform fuses location data from various positioning sources, including GNSS and AI-enhanced Cell ID positioning outdoors and AI-enhanced WiFi and Bluetooth-based indoor positioning. The processed and enhanced real-time location data make it ideal for high-precision, robust, and adaptable tracking applications. It allows organizations to tailor tracking solutions to specific use cases, making it perfect for industries such as logistics and asset management and personal safety applications in security, construction, heavy industry, and hospitals, to name a few.
Traxmate works seamlessly with various devices, including those powered by Sony’s Altair ALT1350 chipset. Leveraging on the GNSS, Cell ID, and WiFi capabilities of Sony’s Altair ALT1350 chipset, the joint solution creates an ecosystem that simplifies the complexities of location tracking.
Sony's Altair ALT1350 - Power-Efficient and Versatile Location Chipset
Sony’s Altair chipset is a powerful, low-cost, power-optimized solution that perfectly complements Traxmate’s capabilities. It supports the diverse needs of today’s tracking applications by combining GNSS, Cell ID technology, and WiFi positioning into a single, integrated chipset. This combination allows the Traxmate Location Controller to deliver highly accurate location data across various outdoor and indoor environments.
The ALT1350 chipset’s versatility is a critical factor in its success. GNSS technology can provide high-precision outdoor tracking, making it ideal for fleet management or asset-tracking applications requiring exact location data. Where general precision is needed, or good visibility through satellite systems is unavailable, the ALT1350’s Cell ID technology leverages LTE network connectivity to obtain location data. This positioning solution significantly reduces battery drain, making it ideal for IoT applications where devices must operate for long periods without frequent recharging.
Additionally, the ALT1350’s WiFi positioning capability ensures that Traxmate’s AI-enhanced technology can provide an indoor positioning accuracy of 2-40 meters, depending on the environment, number of WiFi access points, and the specific positioning solution implemented. This makes it an excellent choice for applications where indoor tracking is critical, such as large warehouses, hospitals, and shopping malls.
Enhanced with the Traxmate Location Controller, this chipset provides a flexible, high-performance tracking solution for indoor and outdoor environments, ensuring location everywhere.
The Holistic Approach - A Complete View of Device Location for Fast Time-to-Market
Integrating Traxmate’s Location Controller with Sony’s Altair ALT1350 chipset creates a comprehensive tracking solution that offers a real-time view of devices’ locations in any environment. This powerful combination allows businesses to effectively track their assets across various locations, either out or indoors. New insights into movement patterns, device status, and real-time location updates empower businesses to make well-informed decisions, optimize operations, and enhance security.
The ALT1350 collects and transmits data to the Traxmate Location Controller platform, where it undergoes processing, translation, analysis, and distribution. The seamless integration offers a broad end-to-end solution, streamlining development time and accelerating deployment. It empowers businesses to swiftly introduce energy-efficient location tracking solutions without requiring extensive custom development, thus ensuring that developers and businesses can direct their efforts toward core objectives while relying on a dependable and robust location-tracking infrastructure. This solution is particularly advantageous for industries that require rapid time-to-market and adaptable location-tracking capabilities.
The Traxmate platform can also provide additional cloud services, such as geofencing, route optimization, and movement history tracking, for customer applications with more advanced tracking needs, further reducing time to market.
Power Efficiency and Precision - Optimizing Energy Consumption for Multiple Use Cases
The Traxmate and Sony’s Altair ALT1350 chipset offer a comprehensive solution for low-power use cases. For applications requiring energy-efficient location tracking with general precision, such as basic asset tracking or IoT devices, the ALT1350’s Cell ID technology is an ideal choice. This technology enables devices to obtain location data using existing LTE networks within a single LwM2M query, minimizing battery consumption while providing reliable location information.
The ALT1350’s WiFi positioning technology targets applications requiring precise indoor tracking with floor and room accuracy. By utilizing advanced location algorithms and leveraging Traxmate’s extensive database of WiFi access points, the ALT1350 chipset can deliver accurate location data via LwM2M indoors where GNSS signals are not optimal.
For high-precision outdoor use cases such as vehicle tracking or critical asset monitoring, the ALT1350’s GNSS solution ensures the precise outdoor location of devices. The ability to switch between these technologies based on the environment ensures that the solution is continuously optimized for power efficiency and accuracy.
Conclusion - A Future-Proof Location Tracking Solution
The partnership between Traxmate and Sony’s Altair, utilizing the ALT1350 chipset, provides a robust and forward-looking solution to meet the increasing needs of the location tracking market. By integrating Traxmate’s adaptable Location Controller platform with Sony’s Altair energy-efficient, multi-technology ALT1350 chipset, businesses now have access to a complete solution that addresses all aspects of energy-efficient location tracking.
This all-encompassing solution is designed to cater to the requirements of today’s interconnected world. It offers precise location tracking capabilities indoors and outdoors, with the versatility and effectiveness demanded by modern applications. The seamless fusion of hardware and cloud services allows businesses to swiftly implement real-time logging-based tracking solutions, ensuring rapid time-to-market and minimizing development complexities.
As industries progress and the demand for precise, trustworthy location tracking continues to rise, the combined offering from Traxmate and Sony’s Altair using the ALT1350 chipset is positioned to lead the way. It provides a comprehensive, adaptable, and scalable approach to location tracking that delivers results in the present and the future.