T-Mobile US Launches Asset Tracking on NB-IoT Network

T-Mobile US has launched what it says is the first U.S. narrowband IoT asset tracking solution, now available nationwide from T-Mobile for Business.

T-Mobile for Business will sell the Roambee BeeAware asset tracking solution running on a Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) network. T-Mobile touts the solution’s security and device battery efficiency. 

Roambee’s BeeAware asset tracker easily attaches to shipments, pallets, or individual assets to provide item-level location and temperature monitoring indoors, in-transit, and outdoors, T-Mobile US says.

Roambee’s Honeycomb analytics platform analyses sensor data such as

• Location

• Temperature
• NIST calibrated temperature
• Humidity
• Air pressure (altitude)
• Ambient light
• Shock (impact)
• Acceleration
• Tilt

Event tracking includes:

• Estimated time of arrival changes
• Route deviations
• Temperature excursions
• Unauthorized stops
• Restricted time movement
• Tampering with goods
• Theft of goods
• Damage to goods

Key asset events include:

• Unauthorized movement
• Asset missing
• Asset aging