Iridium and Skywave partner to advance global industrial IoT for heavy equipment OEMs
Iridium has announced a strategic partnership with Skywave to help heavy equipment manufacturers build and scale more resilient connected equipment services across global operating environments.
As heavy equipment manufacturers expand connected services, they face growing pressure to improve equipment uptime, modernise legacy deployments, and deliver a consistent customer experience across fleets operating in remote and often disconnected locations. Many deployments rely on fragmented communications infrastructure that limits asset visibility, delays service response, and constrains the rollout of new digital capabilities.
Together, Iridium and Skywave are addressing these challenges by combining Iridium’s global, weather-resilient low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite network and Short Burst Data (SBD) services with Skywave’s intelligent multi-network management solution and OGx IoT platform. The integration is underway, with Iridium SBD being embedded directly into Skywave satellite IoT terminals, giving Skywave’s heavy equipment OEM customers the option to access Iridium’s LEO satellite network. The combined solution will give OEMs a flexible platform that seamlessly extends connected services across satellite, cellular, and Wi-Fi networks, helping ensure reliable connectivity wherever equipment operates.
The integrated solution supports a wide range of connected equipment applications for OEMs, including remote monitoring, diagnostics, predictive maintenance, service support, and the modernisation of existing connected equipment fleets. The partnership initially focuses on heavy equipment manufacturers, with the underlying architecture designed to support additional industrial verticals where assets operate globally, remotely, or beyond the reach of terrestrial networks.
