The SAT 101 miniature mobile satellite terminal delivers a new level of tracking and remote monitoring functionality with applications across the maritime, transport, security, energy and utilities sectors

The SAT 101 is a key component in a range of customised direct-to-desktop solutions. The ultra-compact technology enables the position and status of mobile assets, including personnel, to be monitored from any location with an Internet connection. It also allows industrial installations and remote premises to be monitored and controlled in the same way. Satamatics' low-cost services generate multiple business benefits, offering significant increases in supply chain management efficiency, as well as greatly enhanced security, with cost-savings at many levels.

The SAT 101 is programmed to transmit location reports and status messages at regular user-defined intervals. It enables a constant watch to be kept on the position, direction, speed and security status of mobile assets, and on the performance and status of remote systems or premises.

Featuring a built-in GPS receiver, and a high degree of integral data processing intelligence, the SAT 101 provides exception-reporting capabilities that enable the transmission of data only when a particular condition has been met or exceeded. For example, this could be triggered when a vehicle, ship or lone worker reaches a specific destination, or unexpectedly moves beyond a designated zone, to provide maximum flexibility across multiple industries. The freight distribution, hire and charter industries benefit from the security that this high level of asset control can offer. For the shipping industry, the SAT 101 is designed as an integral part of the Ship Security Alert Systems that are being implemented to meet the requirements of the SOLAS convention Regulation XI-2/5. The technology also represents a powerful micro-telemetry solution for the oil and gas industries - for SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) applications and security monitoring.

Solutions utilising the SAT 101 encompass location tracking, security alarm and status messaging, referenced to land mapping or marine charting applications. Information is delivered direct to desktops or laptops via the Internet, and accessed through password-protected web interfaces. The new terminal can be installed in mobile vehicles, plant and machinery, and deployed at fixed sites including buildings and equipment installations. It is also compact and light enough to be carried by individual personnel, and therefore particularly appropriate for lone-worker situations, for which a manually-operated panic button or an automatic tumble-sensor can warn of a man-down situation. In these circumstances, the reporting frequency would be increased to once every few minutes, with the security alert transmissions continuing until help arrived.

The Satamatics SAT 101 terminal incorporates a number of powerful facilities into an ultra-compact transceiver unit:

• Automatic transmission of location reports
• Remotely programmable, with exception-reporting functionality
• Comprehensive interfacing for multi-channel system monitoring
• Flexible powering options for long-term unattended operation
• Miniature format, with low-profile antenna for unobtrusive installation

A two-way communications device, the SAT 101 can be used for text messaging and for remote control. Incorporating a 12-channel GPS receiver for high-accuracy location reporting, the SAT 101 consumes minimal power for long-term unattended operation, and can be powered from its battery pack, a local supply, or a solar panel. Effectively, the terminal is "asleep" between transmissions, hence its low power consumption. By pressing a panic button, the message transmission frequency can be dramatically increased - for example, to every few minutes, to provide Search and Rescue authorities with rapidly updating position reports.

The SAT 101's ability to interface with a variety of external sensors and systems, combined with its built-in data processing intelligence, allows status information about parameters such as fuel levels and warnings of illegal door openings to be gathered and stored, and transmitted direct to the customer. The terminal's ultra-compact dimensions assist with its unobtrusive installation, and it is supplied complete with a low-profile antenna that maintains satellite contact down to very low elevation angles. This ensures that full advantage can be taken of the satellite footprints, out to the extremes of their coverage, to ensure effective service availability throughout the world.

Satamatics' satellite-based technology, which incorporates an ultra-compact transceiver, can be deployed anywhere in the world to provide location tracking and security alert messaging for the spectrum of mobile assets - vehicles, plant and machinery, ships, light aircraft and helicopters.

Comprehensive end-to-end solutions deliver location information and security reports referenced to mapping applications. This allows logistics services, transport managers, fleet and hire operators to receive a regularly updated overview of entire fleets. The position and multi-parameter status of mobile assets can be monitored from any desktop or laptop with an Internet connection.

The powerful combination of Satamatics' technology and worldwide communications network enables a constant watch to be kept on an asset's position, direction, speed and security status, whatever its location.

• Automatic regular transmission of location reports
• Automatic alert messaging when destination reached or when an asset moves beyond an authorised zone
• Automatic alerts can be generated when doors, hatches or load curtains are opened unexpectedly
• Driver's panic-button facility for transmitting anti-theft and anti-hijack security alerts
• Flexible powering options for long-term unattended operation
• Ultra-compact technology enables undetectable installation