Australian IoT equipment maker LX Group has debuted, at Mobile World Congress an asset tracking and monitoring module that combines multiple location and communication technologies with blockchain to enable verification of tracked assets’ location and integrity.
The product was used last year to track the shipment of 17 tonnes of almonds from Sunraysia in Victoria to Hamburg in Germany in a collaboration led by the Commonwealth Bank to demonstrate a new blockchain platform, distributed ledger technology and smart contracts.
The demonstration partners were able to view and track the location of the shipment and monitor temperature and humidity inside the container.
The new LX module uses GPS for location supplemented by WiFi indoors and supports CAT-M1 and NB-IoT communications and can be fitted with a variety of on-board sensors for environmental variables such as temperature and humidity.
It runs on LX Groups “ultra-low power” IoT OS and offers open APIs that LX Group says enable developers to build custom industrial IoT and blockchain applications. Back end support is provided in Microsoft’s Azure cloud.
• European office coming
LX Group also announced plans to open a European office later this year “to facilitate expansion into new markets, provide local product support and access new talent pools.”
