{"id":47511,"date":"2026-02-24T18:13:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/iridium-releases-tiny-iot-module-combining-sat-cell-and-gnss\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T18:13:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:13:49","slug":"iridium-releases-tiny-iot-module-combining-sat-cell-and-gnss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/iridium-releases-tiny-iot-module-combining-sat-cell-and-gnss\/","title":{"rendered":"Iridium Releases Tiny IoT Module Combining Sat, Cell, and GNSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iridium<\/strong> has made a further move in the IoT market, launching a new IoT module that integrates Iridium Short Burst Data (SBD) satellite service, LTE-M cellular connectivity, and GNSS positioning into a single platform. This new solution, Iridium 9604, aims to reduce solution complexity, lower costs, and accelerate time to market. The aim is to make dual-mode IoT connectivity viable for price-sensitive, high-volume deployments. Iridium announced the IoT launch, Feb. 24.<\/p>\n<p>The Iridium 9604 beta program, which launched earlier this year and was oversubscribed by a select group of companies. Commercial availability begins in June, and the Iridium 9604 development kit is available for testing satellite and cellular services.<\/p>\n<p>The Iridium 9604, built on the u-blox SARA-R5 platform, is a compact form factor, shown above. Iridium said it is ideal for dual-mode IoT deployments previously cost-prohibitive across industrial, infrastructure, and mobility applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an early Iridium 9604 developer, utilizing the three-in-one module has already fundamentally changed our product economics. We eliminated two components from our bill of materials, reduced our board size, and simplified our power architecture. This is a major breakthrough for our IoT solutions. Additionally, having dual mode connectivity options enables a smarter, location-aware network selection in our application. The Iridium 9604 turned what would have been a complex multi-component design into a single-module solution,\u201d Alastair MacLeod, CEO of Ground Control, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iridium has made a further move in the IoT market, launching a new IoT module that integrates Iridium Short Burst Data (SBD) satellite service, LTE-M cellular connectivity, and GNSS positioning into a single platform. This new solution, Iridium 9604, aims to reduce solution complexity, lower costs, and accelerate time to market. The aim is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}