Samsung Connect Tag, a tracking device with narrowband connectivity and more
The Samsung Connect Tag will be suitable to provide its position, whether it is indoors or outdoors: in addition to narrowband technology, the device will also take advantage of GPS technology, open Wi-Fi networks and coverage of the cell network of the various telephone operators.
Samsung has presented a small accessory dedicated to all those who are interested in tracking the position of objects, vehicles and if you also consider the position of your children, on very large areas practically almost without limits: contrary to what already happens with For example: the Bluetooth Tag, the new Samsung Connect Tag is the first mobile consumer product based on narrowband network technology, or rather NB-IoT (Narrowband Internet of Things), a main feature that makes it virtually identifiable in any area covered by a network of this type but not only.
Narrowband networks have been developed mainly to support devices of the Internet of Things (IoT), ie objects that require a constant connection to dialogue with each other but exploiting small amounts of data, when compared to the traffic of PCs and smartphones.
The Samsung Connect Tag will be suitable to provide its position, whether it is indoors or outdoors: in addition to narrowband technology, the device will also take advantage of GPS technology, open Wi-Fi networks and network coverage. cells of the various telephone operators.
This Tag is currently developed to work exclusively in the Android environment, Samsung advertises it to be paired, for example: to a backpack, to the collar of your pet, a bicycle or your own set of keys.
The new Samsung tag has a square and compact shape, about 4×4 cm with a thickness of just over 1 cm. It is also resistant to dust and water: the only flaw perhaps the autonomy that, when compared to a similar Bluetooth device, the battery instead of lasting several months, ensures proper operation for about a week of use with a full charge, the higher consumption of course are given by the greater possibility of interfacing with multiple networks and that require more energy to transmit signals.
The tag will be officially presented at the next Samsung conference in San Francisco; as regards price and availability, no details have been disclosed in this regard, but as was already the case with other Samsung devices, in the first instance, it will be marketed in Korea and then spread to all the other countries in the following months.
