Australian IoT company Ceres Tag, developer of a smart ear tag for cattle, is to use Globalstar satellite services to provide communications with its tags. The two companies have signed a commercial agreement that follows Ceres Tag partnering with Globalstar in November 2019 to trial the use of Globalstar for communication with its tags. Globalstar […]
eSat Global set to launch geosat based IoT network
eSat Global, which is planning to operate a low bit rate geosat based IoT network using existing geostationary satellites has revealed details of pricing. eSat Global’s recently appointed CEO, Rick Somerton told IoTAustralia the service would likely cost between $US5 and $US10 per annum per device for 10 messages per day of 12 bytes each. […]
eSAT Global to provide global connectivity for Smart Paddock’s cattle tags
eSAT Global — a US company planning to use existing geostationary satellites for IoT applications — has scored its first Australian customer: Smart Paddock, developer of a livestock monitoring tag. Together, the two companies say they will seek to provide over $9 billion in benefits to the Australian meat and livestock industry. Smart Paddock’s Bluebell […]
Large-scale trial for Ceres Tag cattle monitoring tag
Queensland based agricultural IoT startup Ceres Tag is to trial 500 of its cattle-monitoring ear tags on cattle belonging to pastoral company Caason Group on its 400,000 hectare Aileron Pastoral Holdings property 135km north of Alice Springs The two have signed a MoU for the trial, following Caason becoming an investor in Ceres Tag. Caason […]
