Stratos Global has become the first Inmarsat distribution partner for Isatdata Pro products and service following an agreement with Sky Wave Mobile Communications, and its first target will be M2M services for the oil and gas industries.
Earlier this month, Inmarsat and Sky Wave jointly announced Isatdata Pro to increase payload capacity compared with other satellite-based M2M services.
Isatdata Pro uses the global Inmarsat satellite constellation to provide remote management and communications with mobile and fixed assets worldwide. It claims to deliver up to 37 times the data capability of competing services.
The service supports a wide range of security and location-based services in the M2M market. These include: tracking and in-cab messaging for commercial transportation and government fleets; transmitting telemetry information from oil and gas distribution equipment; and remote management and control of fixed assets.
“Isatdata Pro is a global service that offers greater packet data capability, scalability and reliability than competing M2M communications solutions, at compelling economics,” said Stratos president and CEO Jim Parm.
“The ability to send and receive more data from remote assets will provide customers with better visibility of business operations, thus enabling them to manage risks more effectively.”
Stratos will market Isatdata Pro to users in the government and land-transportation markets, and as a scada product for the oil and gas and utilities sectors, where it will integrate Isatdata Pro with Stratosiware, an IP-based fully managed end-to-end scada service. At any desired polling interval, the scalable Stratosiware service automatically interrogates scada field devices and transmits data via satellite, radio or microwave across the global Stratos Nexus telecoms infrastructure to Stratos data centres worldwide.
“With its strong reputation for value-added services and global customer support, Stratos is ideally suited to bring the advantages of Isatdata Pro to our most critical target markets,” said Skywave CEO and managing director Pui-Ling Stanley Chan.
“We look forward to working closely with Stratos experts to meet the individual needs of customers.”