Satamatics Announces Marketing Agreement With Carrier
In a major step toward enhancing its logistics tracking and monitoring capabilities in the over-the-road long haul trucking and cold chain logistics, Satamatics Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Satamatics Global, today announced that the company has entered into an agreement with the Carrier Transicold Division of Carrier Corporation. Satamatics provides tracking and monitoring capabilities to the logistics and shipping industries globally using the Inmarsat D+ satellite-based packet data network; Carrier Transicold is a leading supplier of truck, trailer, container, and rail refrigeration systems to the logistics and shipping industries.
Satamatics’ refrigerated tracking system provides essential information on a refrigerated trailer’s status, location, temperature set point, fuel levels, battery, and history using the world’s most financially secure and technically advanced satellite network; Inmarsat. Satamatics’ solution also has the ability to remotely start the refrigerated system. Cold chain logistic companies utilize this information and capability to provide the most reliable and protected services to the shippers of perishable commodities. The arrangement with Carrier allows Satamatics to use its true-global satellite-based tracking and monitoring technology for the purpose of extracting and transmitting pertinent data remotely to end-users from truck, trailer, and rail equipment employing Carrier’s refrigerated systems.
Satamatics’ SAT-201 is the first satellite modem to run Carrier’s new refrigerated system 3rd party communications protocol in its firmware. This significantly improves reliability and cost for this technology returning a greater ROI for its end users providing a better alternative to what has been available in the marketplace. The agreement broadens Satamatics’ ability to offer a complete tracking and monitoring system to its customers and expands the Company’s presence in the United States and across the Globe.
Brian Hester, President & COO of Satamatics Inc., commented, “Up until now refrigerated control and monitoring was more complex with several microprocessors communicating to the refrigeration systems microprocessor and backhauling the resulting data through various satellite or cellular-based communication modems. Our goal was to reduce the multiple failure points in the communication of this critical refrigeration information. In doing so, we have created a highly reliable system at half the cost of the traditional offerings in the market. For the same cost of a terrestrial system, Satamatics has the ability to deliver locally or globally through its Inmarsat D+ satellite network critical cold chain logistics information”, Satamatics’ is pleased to announce our agreement with Carrier Corporation and will provide end users with critical, real time information for better management, usage and protection of refrigerated cargo and the assets that move them.”
About Carrier Transicold
Carrier Transicold provides industry-leading transport temperature control and anti-idling solutions with a complete line of equipment for refrigerated trucks, trailers and containers, auxiliary power units for heavy-duty trucks and transport air conditioning systems for buses and recreational vehicles. Carrier Transicold is a business unit of Carrier Corp., which is headquartered in Farmington, Conn., and is the world’s largest provider of heating, air conditioning and refrigeration solutions with operations in 172 countries. It is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., a diversified company that provides a broad range of high technology products and services to the aerospace and building industries worldwide.
About Satamatics
Satamatics’ Inmarsat-based D+ worldwide telematics services provide the critical enabling technology for fleet management, asset tracking and monitoring, remote site monitoring, security applications and personnel safety. Headquartered in the UK with offices in the US, Satamatics works with value added resellers and distributors around the world, to develop and deploy end-to-end solutions across the world’s ocean regions and landmasses. Satamatics’ global service provides seamless coverage throughout the world, and includes secure access to the company’s modern network of satellite gateways and data handling centers. The service utilizes the Inmarsat system of geostationary satellites to ensure maximum quality of service, the fastest message delivery times, and the most financially secure satellite communication system.