Skylo, maker of the world’s most affordable and ubiquitous network that connects any machine or sensor, today announced a partnership with Sony Semiconductor Israel (Sony, formerly known as Altair Semiconductor). With the partnership, Skylo and Sony are the first to develop and deploy cellular IoT chipsets (branded “Altair”) that can connect via geostationary satellites and that leverage the...

The exponential growth in distributed sensors and connected machines has pushed connectivity demands to the outer edges of capability sets. Traditionally, satellite connectivity has been isolated to only the most valuable and mission critical use cases (emergency services, oil and gas extraction, for example) because satellite comm...