Positioning and cellular technologies employed by new trackable pallet

Nikken Lease has tapped into cutting-edge positioning and cellular technologies from U-blox for its new trackable pallet, Transeeker. Transeeker is a pallet equipped with U-blox’s cellular and positioning technologies for accurate tracking and uses the UMTS/HSPA(+) module LISA-U200-62S and the U-blox 7 standalone GNSS module, EVA-7M. For the first time, Nikken Lease is offering its GNSS enabled pallets as a rental service. Made of plastic, the pallets are reusable and therefore are seen as a good ecological alternative to the traditional wooden counterpart. “When we designed Transeeker, we wanted to ensure that we could locate a pallet precisely and retrieve it nationwide at low costs for our customers,” said Mr. Tsumura, planning director, Nikken Lease. “U-blox is just the right partner with excellent product performance and unique features such as CellLocate®.” Embedded in Transeeker, the LISA-U200-62S of the LISA-U2 series is equipped with CellLocate, U-blox’s proprietary hybrid positioning technology enabling stand-alone location estimation based on surrounding GSM/UMTS cell information in conjunction with GPS positioning data. The module also offers worldwide W-CDMA(UMTS) and GPRS/EDGE coverage, and an easy migration to u-blox GSM/GPRS, CDMA and LTE modules. Also found in Transeeker, the EVA-7M single GNSS module features the reliable performance of the u-blox 7 positioning engine (receiving GPS, GLONASS, QZSS and SBAS signals) and delivers high sensitivity and minimal acquisition times in the ultra-compact EVA form factor. “This collaboration with Nikken Lease should help us strengthen our position in the Japanese market as a key player for IoT applications,” explains Tesshu Naka, country manager, U-blox Japan. “We are looking forward to more collaboration with Nikken Lease.”