Skylo partners with Digitanimal and Deutsche Telekom to certify the Digitanimal SAT Collar, enabling global NB-NTN connectivity and solar-powered tracking for ranchers in the world's most remote locations.
This press release from Digitanimal can be found at: https://digitanimal.com/2025/12/30/digitanimal-livestock-tracker-skylo-certification-nb-ntn-connectivity/?lang=en
MADRID, Spain – Digitanimal, a leader in ruminant livestock monitoring, today announced that its advanced Digitanimal SAT Collar has received official certification from Skylo, the leader in non-terrestrial network (NTN) solutions for operations on its network. This critical milestone ensures the robust performance and global reach of Digitanimal’s satellite-enabled tracking solution, utilizing state-of-the-art Narrowband Non-Terrestrial Network (NB-NTN) connectivity.
The Digitanimal SAT Collar is designed to overcome the limitations of traditional connectivity in remote areas, providing ranchers with continuous oversight of their herds. This connectivity is made possible through a strategic technological partnership that leverages Deutsche Telekom’s extensive network capabilities.
Enhancing Ranching Operations with Global Connectivity
The Skylo-certified SAT Collar delivers a suite of critical features and benefits tailored for extensive livestock farming:
The Value of Skylo Certification
Certification is a crucial step that validates the device’s ability to effectively and efficiently communicate with Skylo’s non-terrestrial network. Just as with terrestrial operators, Skylo certification is critical to ensure that devices are optimized to maintain high network performance and reliable data throughput under real-world conditions without sacrificing network integrity. This comprehensive validation process provides ranchers with greater confidence in the device’s consistent ability to communicate and deliver continuous monitoring data.
The Digitanimal SAT Collar uses the combined network strength of Deutsche Telekom’s terrestrial network (TN) infrastructure and Skylo’s non-terrestrial network (NTN) capabilities to provide true, reliable TN + NTN connectivity, establishing a powerful and efficient solution validated through extensive field testing from a single Deutsche Telekom SIM.
Executive Quotes
“The Skylo certification validates the power of our Digitanimal SAT Collar, which leverages NB-NTN connectivity to offer ranchers true global visibility,” said Carlos Callejero, CEO, Digitanimal. “Now, whether their herds are in deep valleys or vast pastures, farmers have indispensable, real-time control over their animals’ welfare and operational efficiency. This combination of reliable technology and global coverage is a game-changer for the industry.”
“We are excited to officially certify the Digitanimal SAT Collar, ensuring it meets our rigorous standards for seamless integration and robust network performance,” stated Vijay Krishnan, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Skylo. “This collaboration is key to bringing reliable, low-power satellite connectivity to the global livestock industry, guaranteeing that essential data flows reliably from the field to the rancher’s application whether they are covered by cellular or not.”
“Our partnership is bridging the terrestrial and non-terrestrial worlds, enabling reliable connectivity in regions where traditional infrastructure cannot reach,” commented Jens Olejak, Head of Satellite IoT, Deutsche Telekom IoT. “By combining our robust network with Digitanimal’s innovative hardware and Skylo’s expertise, we are delivering an efficient, scalable solution that supports the digitalization and future of agricultural operations worldwide.”
About Digitanimal
Digitanimal S.L. is a technology company based in Madrid, Spain, specializing in the development of monitoring solutions for ruminant livestock and wildlife, focused on improving animal welfare and farm management efficiency through advanced IoT and satellite technology.
About Skylo
Skylo Technologies is a global Non-Terrestrial Network service provider based in Mountain View, CA, offering a service that allows smartphones, wearables, vehicles, and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over existing satellites. Devices connected over satellite are managed and served by Skylo’s commercial NTN vRAN, featuring a 3GPP standards-based cloud-native base station and core. Skylo works with existing satellite operators, network operators, and device makers to provide subscribers an anywhere, anytime connectivity solution between terrestrial and satellite networks. Skylo’s focus is on enabling connected services for people outdoors and connected workflows for machines at work across critical industries such as agriculture, maritime, logistics, mining, and others, in addition to mass-market consumer devices. For more information, visit www.skylo.tech.
About Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies, with more than 261 million mobile customers, 25 million fixed-network lines, and 22 million broadband customers. It provides fixed-network/broadband, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers, and information and communication technology (ICT) solutions for business and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in more than 50 countries. With a staff of some 200,000 (Dec 31, 2024) employees throughout the world, it generated revenue of 115.6 billion Euros in the 2024 financial year.
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