SX1 Engine

OEM Satellite Module

The SX1 Engine is a small, compact and light circuit, containing all components necessary to perform and enable a wide variety of location-based reporting, sensor, and alarm applications. This revolutionary hardware offers data delivery services from Numerex’s highly reliable and fully redundant multi-location server configuration.

The SX1 Engine operates as a slave satellite interface using standard USB communications to the host application. Integrators can satellite-enable their technology applications quickly, cost-effectively and with total confidence that their application technology can be made operationally global within weeks, not years. The integrated GPS receiver and satellite transmitter make the engine a stand-alone tracker, sensor monitor interface, local controller with communications, or security tag. The modes of operation are configurable, making the engine suitable for inclusion in a wide variety of end user applications.

This small-outline board is the result of years of product development and miniaturization, representing the state of the art design in global satellite location-based communicators. The SX1 Engine measures just 2.94 x 2.7 x 0.5in. (75 x 69 x 13mm) and weighs only 2.2 ounces (62g). Battery operation is supported as the unit idles during dormant intervals drawing only micro-Amps. It is easily integrated, independently or with support from Numerex, into application assemblies using the onboard USB interface and DC power. Two connectors support a variety of interface configurations with the USB interface brought to both connectors. The SX1 Engine is also perfect for integration into dual-mode applications, blending satellite with terrestrial communications.

Numerex works with product integrators to ensure the simple inclusion of the SX1 Engine and associated data into a wide variety of applications. The SX1 Engine operates through the Globalstar Simplex Data Service, a LEO satellite system. The LEO system is designed specifically to serve single units through extremely high volume and widely distributed deployments, while benefiting from LEO constellations’ inherent shading avoidance, out-of-the-box uniform functionality, and near-global availability.

The SX1 Engine is the core technology incorporated into Numerex’s SX1, the most rugged satellite tracking device ever produced. The SX1 Engine is available today to value added resellers and solution integrators. Please contact us for product and service pricing.