{"id":58658,"date":"2020-11-12T01:37:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T17:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/kobelco-uses-iridium-connectivity-for-global-remote-asset-tracking\/"},"modified":"2020-11-12T01:37:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T17:37:04","slug":"kobelco-uses-iridium-connectivity-for-global-remote-asset-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/kobelco-uses-iridium-connectivity-for-global-remote-asset-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobelco Uses Iridium Connectivity for Global Remote Asset Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iridium Communications<\/strong> revealed Wednesday that Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) <strong>Kobelco Construction Machinery<\/strong> (KCM) integrated Iridium\u2019s satcom connectivity into its hydraulic excavator machinery, heavy equipment, and the KOMEXS remote asset management platform. Iridium\u2019s service provides KCM equipment global coverage for the first time, as well as programming deployed assets to provide automated recurring telematics and equipment health updates, while also enabling customers to request real-time reports.<\/p>\n<p>During the Third Quarter (Q3) 2020, Iridium commercial Internet of Things (IoT) subscribers grew 20% from the same period a year ago \u2014 adding a net 67,000 subscribers.&nbsp;Additionally, at World Satellite Business Week on Tuesday, Iridum CEO Matt Desch said the company is building partnerships to integrate Iridium technology into other companies\u2019 products. He said they\u2019re finding that Iridium\u2019s technology is applicable to other highly mobile applications, and the fastest growing include autonomous vehicle monitoring, drones, and autonomous shipping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the need for real-time, global communications solutions continues to increase, Iridium and KCM are delivering reliable, effective and weather-resilient connectivity for KCM\u2019s vast customer base,\u201d says&nbsp;Bryan Hartin, executive vice president, sales and marketing, Iridium. \u201cThis partnership solidifies Iridium\u2019s leadership position in providing global satellite industrial-IoT communications within the heavy equipment industry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iridium Communications revealed Wednesday that Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Kobelco Construction Machinery (KCM) integrated Iridium\u2019s satcom connectivity into its hydraulic excavator machinery, heavy equipment, and the KOMEXS remote asset management platform. Iridium\u2019s service provides KCM equipment global coverage for the first time, as well as programming deployed assets to provide automated recurring telematics and equipment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58659,"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-58658","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\/58658"}],"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=58658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}