The recent acquisition of Comtech Mobile Datacom (News - Alert) Corp.'s Sensor Enabled Notification System (SENS) operation by ORBCOMM will give the company a technology to improve its global satellite and cellular data communications solutions for asset tracking, management, and remote control. The acquisition includes satellite hardware, network technology and Web platforms.
The Comtech SENS solution provides mission critical applications in tracking assets for global deployments by governments, defense, transportation, logistics, and oil/gas industries for secure tracking and messaging. Using the Globalstar (News - Alert) satellite network, SENS provides satellite-based tracking devices, a network hub, and an Internet-based back-office platform to make information accessible from virtually any location in the world.
Comprised of three segments -- the user segment, the space segment, and the ground segment -- SENS is able to track fixed or mobile assets to collect data from analog and digital sensors as well as GPS.
The Comtech global satellite network provides a secure mobile satcom tracking and messaging service for multiple assets across many regions. The platform is one of the most stringent security technologies relied upon by governments and military organizations around the world.
Some of the key network features include:
Satellite gateway stations at multiple satellite providers: Aces, Inmarsat (News - Alert), Optus, SkyTerra, Telespazio and Thuraya;
Meets stringent government requirements: AR-24 compliant, FIPS 140-2, L2, NSA and DIACAP reviewed, DTRA investigated;
Ensures maximum security and protection from outside intrusion;
Traffic is physically and logically separated with over-The-Air (OTA) encryption re-keying;
Fully redundant.
SENS has more than 20,000 subscribers around the world that rely on the one-way satellite products and services it offers. ORBCOMM (News - Alert) will continue to support existing SENS customers from its acquisition, and it is integrating the SENS platform to its global distribution channel and making it available to its existing and new customers.
"The SENS acquisition expands ORBCOMM's portfolio of services by adding new offerings to our existing suite of satellite and cellular network services. We see this market segment growing rapidly, based on customers that can benefit from the Globalstar network's reliable, low-power, low-cost, one-way satellite data service for short messaging along with its unique advantages in power management," said Marc Eisenberg, Chief Executive Officer of ORBCOMM.