IDA unveils vision for LMR-based IoT solution
In addition to its spectrum, IDA has several other key IoT-related assets, according to Sanghvi. IDA has six-sensor devices that come in a small form factor—“they can be mounted on drones,” he said. IDA’s base station are “truly mobile” and support the creation of vehicle-area and ad-hoc networks, Sanghvi said. And all of the data gathered from IoT sensors in the field can be delivered to IDA’s Trak-it Data Engine (TiDE), an open-source data-management platform that the company unveiled last year at IWCE.
This combination of assets makes IDA unique in the IoT marketplace, Sanghvi said.
“People have devices but no network; people have a network but no devices; and people have a backend platform, but no way to get the data to it,” he said. “We are becoming that company that has an all-in-one system to provide a solution for safety, security and monitoring.”
IDA plans to demonstrate its IoT capabilities at the Critical Communications World show, which begins May 31 in Amsterdam.