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Orchestrating high-value assets far off the grid

Usage-based revenue models demand clarity, not estimates or assumptions. High-value equipment deserves confident oversight, helping businesses stay ahead of risks such as theft, revenue leakage, diminishing residual value, and growing safety or liability exposure.

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Reliable connectivity is the operating fabric of the heavy equipment industry. A continuous flow of data protects field assets, strengthens legal posture, and ensures accurate billing while supporting transparent customer relationships with minimal friction and churn.

But heavy equipment demand often exists where networks disappear, letting machines fall into coverage gaps and run their heaviest duty cycles unmonitored. As a result, equipment lessors and OEMs may miss early signs of contract violations or SLA issues, eroding margins and customer trust.

Iridium helps eliminate these blind spots by connecting valuable assets through our truly global satellite network, giving businesses the confidence of always-on visibility and the full value of ubiquitous connectivity, as well as:

Deterministic coverage

Uninterrupted pole-to-pole coverage makes us a single trusted pathway to capture complete, authoritative, time-stamped data that reduces billing ambiguity and audit exposure.

Streamlined deployments

Integrating us into industrial hardware produces a single-SKU design with consistent network behavior, accelerating time to market and simplifying customer support.

Quality business intelligence

Because our network delivers telemetry from anywhere in the world, your analytical models reflect reliable operational data undistorted by over-represented territories.

Borderless orchestration

Our network reach helps you ship equipment worldwide across multiple customs zones without roaming surprises, policy friction, and data residency concerns.
IoT terminals

Engineered for heavy lifting

Easy to deploy and easy to manage, our IoT terminals are designed to avoid implementation complexity and accelerate time to value. Purpose-built devices under the Iridium Edge® family — Iridium Edge®, Iridium Edge® Pro and Iridium Edge® Solar — enable satellite connectivity right out of the box, and feature:

  • Compact, weather-resilient enclosures with military-grade durability and omnidirectional antennas.
  • Industrial I/O that interface CAN/J1939, RS-485/Modbus, and 4-20 mA sensors.
  • Value-added Cloud Connect service that extends data flow into fleet management, telematics, and customer support platforms.
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Iridium Edge® Pro

IoT modules: satellite connectivity, future-proof

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Elegant, ultra-slim Iridium modules seamlessly integrate with products of any scale to enable cloud-ready satellite data on existing solutions or streamline new hardware development integrating Iridium connectivity.

Iridium Certus™ 9704

A dedicated module for Iridium Messaging Transport®, designed as a single surface-mount component with 2-square-inch footprint.
IoT data

Small message sizes, big business impact

For industrial use cases, we offer two ultra-efficient data services, optimized for power-constrained assets, cloud-native ingress, and total cost transparency. 

  • Iridium Short Burst Data® (SBD®) — a simple, cost-efficient packet-based service, ideal for applications relying on frequent transmissions of smaller data packets, like sensor reports or heartbeat messages.
  • Iridium Messaging Transport (IMT) — a cloud-integrated service that handles payloads up to 100kB; preferred for applications with larger messages, images or file transfers.
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When connectivity becomes business value

Connecting equipment via our network allows you to streamline fragmented telemetry and customer data into a single reliable source, implement analytics-based changes, and quicker identify potential risks and new opportunity windows for business expansion.

Lock-in billable revenue

Capture authoritative counters like engine hours and status, fuel rate, and load factor to issue precise invoices, eliminate estimations and over-crediting, and defend margins against audits and disputes.

Deter unauthorized use & theft

Instrument geofences, ignition/motion sensing, tamper loops, and chain-of-custody logs; receive real-time notifications and send immobilization commands to reduce loss and speed up recovery.

Accelerate redeployment

Cross-reference precise position data with run/idle states, fuel level and cycle counts and program auto-triggered dispatch to compress redeploy time and increase asset utilization.

Shift to predictive maintenance

Stream real-time telemetry (temperature, fuel burn, vibrations), run guided tests, and trigger timely work orders – all without cell coverage – to reduce MTTR and unplanned downtime.

Strengthen customer trust

Deliver on contract promises for uptime, support, and reporting; offer customers complete operational observability and clear performance indicators that align billed hours with actual usage.

Unlock new models & markets

Package Iridium-based capabilities into offerings, tie pricing to uptime SLAs, compliance reporting and recovery rates, and discover new revenue streams in addressable off-grid markets.

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Get a better grip on remote equipment with Iridium

Leveraging our global network, you can increase operational and commercial stability, lifecycle value and performance levels across all assets anywhere in the world.

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