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Description

The Renesas Fleet Tracker (FT) is a small and reliable GPS and Cat M1/NBIOT fleet tracking unit, based on a proven design and years of field experience. Development and enhancement is made easy and straight-forward through the Renesas RA MCU Family and e2 studio development software, coupled with GT&T Engineering's architecture and domain experience.

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Key Features

Market Advantage

  • Ready-to-Manufacture solution
  • Based on a reliable proven design
  • Ready-to-Go when coupled with GT&T Engineering's software offering and can be tailored to customer needs
  • Access to GT&T's engineering and market know-how
  • Great ROI, as it generally outlives the assets it tracks
  • Minimizes R&D investment

Technical Features

  • Based on Renesas' RA6M3 Family of microcontrollers with Renesas analog and power management products
  • Firmware development supported by Renesas' e2 studio, Flexible Software Package (FSP) and FreeRTOS
  • Supports direct interfacing to analog fuel level senders in truck tanks
  • Possesses 9 Degrees-of-Freedom (9DOF), sensor for driver behavior analysis and monitoring
  • Designed to resist power fluctuations: overvoltage, overcurrent, reverse polarity protection
  • Undervoltage cut-off to avoid draining a vehicle's battery
  • Logs locations while out of communications coverage
  • Avoids "hung system" phenomena, which plagues other products
  • Firmware Over-the-Air (FOTA) upgrade
  • Can be used for non fleet IoT applications, as a communications adaptor board

Block Diagram

Fleet Tracker Solution Block Diagram

Target Markets and Applications

  • Fleet and asset tracking applications for the telematics, transportation and logistics markets
  • IoT applications such as monitoring generators and pumps, and as a WAN communications device

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Renesas RA MCU Family

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Disclaimer: THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED “AS-IS” FOR EVALUATION PURPOSES ONLY. RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES (collectively, “Renesas”) DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND MERCHANTABILITY. Renesas provides evaluation platforms and design proposals to help our customers to develop products. However, factors beyond Renesas' control, including without limitation, component variations, temperature changes and PCB layout, could significantly affect the product performance. It is the user’s responsibility to verify the actual circuit performance.

Documentation

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GT&T Asset and Fleet Tracking

The GT&T Fleet and Asset Tracker is a small and reliable GPS fleet tracker, with CATM1 LTE and BLE connectivity that helps track and log physical asset locations based on the Renesas RA6M3 processor family.