IoT hardware developer Seeed Studio has launched a card-size GPS tracker that uses the LoRaWAN LPWAN network along with an open source hardware design.
The Seeed SenseCAP T1000 tracker is 6.5mm thick and is currently fully funded on the Kickstarter crowd funding site for $28. The tracker design is based on Semtech’s LR1110 LoRaWAN chipset and Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chip.
It uses three different positioning technologies for accurate indoor and outdoor positioning: a combination of GPS for outdoors and WiFi indoors through the LR1110, as well as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) location indoors. The Tracker can switch between BLE, WiFi, GPS and their combinations depending on the infrastructure and application and stores up to 1000 data points that can be delivered once a LoRaWAN connection is restored for example to The Things or Actility networks in Europe.
The tracker has a battery life of six months from a 700mAh battery. It also has temperature and light sensors with a three axis accelerometer, making it suitable for a variety of applications for location and status monitoring.
For areas without LoRaWAN coverage, Seeed Studio offers a SenseCAP Gateway Bundle on Kickstarter for quick deployment to build LoRaWAN network infrastructure.
An Auto-Geo-Adaptive feature that automatically switches between different LoRaWAN regions based on the device’s location coordinates. This ensures excellent tracking performance across the globe.
