RA Partner Ecosystem Solutions
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.
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
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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