Being able to get position without GPS solves a lot of problems with urban canyon. It fills in that gap that we’ve been looking to fill for our customers that have been having issues with getting positioned accurately and cost effectively.

Polte’s breakthrough location technologies, coupled with Fleetilla’s nearly two decades expertise in design and deployment of long-life, wide area outdoor location solutions, will allow us to now offer seamless end-to-end supply chain and equipment visibility – indoors and outdoors.

Polte’s technology allows a significant cost-per-device savings, a power consumption savings of 70 percent–up to 90 percent for indoor locations–along with indoor accuracy superior to GNSS devices. With Polte technology integrated, we add real and measurable value to our Monarch platform.

In all observed cases, and even before we optimize anything, Polte performs far better than Cell-ID.

Manufacturers are offering hybrid devices that are running Polte as part of the cellular stack with cloud location, but they also offer Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. However, those are actually secondary technologies because they’re not universal. The most important thing is the asset context and its lifecycle, and that always comes down to universal first.

Rather than collecting GPS continuously once a minute and consuming a significant portion of the battery life, devices using Polte can just use a piece of the cellular radio to position, thus extending the device’s runtime.

Taking advantage of Polte not only allows us to unlock precise location and indoor visibility where GPS falls short, but reinforces our value promise: providing long battery life trackers that are compact, easy to use and require no installation.