Inmarsat (News - Alert), the premier provider of global mobile satellite communications services and SkyWave Mobile Communications, a global provider of communication services for machine-to-machine applications, have collaborated to launch a new low data rate service, IsatData Pro.

The newly announced IsatData Pro will be used for managing and communicating with remote assets around the world.

As compared to other satellite-based M2M services in the market, IsatData Pro offers a significant increase in payload capacity. Other global M2M satellite services currently available offer data connectivity at between 270 and 340 bytes.

"IsatData Pro is a real game changer for our clients, for Inmarsat and for us," said Sean Faulkner, Vice President for IsatData Pro at SkyWave Mobile Communications, in a press release.

By delivering 37 times more data, IsatData Pro is capable of meeting the increasing demand for richer information in M2M applications. It also allows businesses to share more data across diverse operations, via emails, electronic forms and workflow information. 

Applications include vehicle telemetry information, text-messaging remote workers, maintaining up-to-date driver logs, and the remote management and control of fixed assets.

IsatData Pro, for mission critical applications, can transmit a 100 byte message in less than 15 seconds, or a 1,000 byte message in 45 seconds.

"The M2M market is set to continue its rapid growth globally, but it is currently under-served by services that cannot match the increasing data demands," said Drew Brandy, Director of Land Services at Inmarsat. 

"By supporting a significant increase in the size of M2M messages, IsatData Pro will provide better visibility of business operations, allow for risks to be managed more effectively, and deliver enhanced efficiencies. Furthermore it does so with the support of the most reliable global mobile satellite network, the Inmarsat-4s, which have an expected operational lifetime into the 2020s."

With the help of IsatData Pro, transportation companies can now go from tracking and monitoring for security purposes, to using the enhanced data to provide logistic services.

Utilities can send more data, more reliably, from multiple sensors and SCADA applications can go from alarm monitoring to really driving the performance and value of equipment. Now, organizations, with the help of the same, will be able to stay in touch with remote assets and workers.

In related news, Inmarsat has announced the commercial availability of a new voice distress service on FleetBroadband.

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