Myriota has added cellular connectivity to its HyperPulse 5G non-terrestrial network and AssetHawk tracker, creating a hybrid IoT service for industrial assets moving between cellular coverage and remote environments.
The launch combines HyperPulse’s low-power satellite connectivity with cellular network support under a single network proposition. Myriota says messages can be routed automatically over cellular or satellite according to availability and configuration, removing the need to manage separate satellite and cellular providers, contracts, and platforms.
The company is targeting assets that do not fit neatly into cellular-only or satellite-only deployments. Trailers, generators, containers, equipment, infrastructure, and field assets may spend much of their life inside terrestrial coverage, yet still move through remote or low-coverage locations often enough to require satellite backup. Those assets have historically been difficult to connect economically because satellite-only pricing can be too expensive and cellular-only coverage can leave operational blind spots.
HyperPulse is compliant with 3GPP Release 17 standards and is designed to work with a growing ecosystem of standards-based silicon. The hybrid service covers the US, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, and Saudi Arabia, with more markets due to launch this year. Hybrid data plans are priced from USD $0.99 per device per month.
AssetHawk, Myriota’s rugged battery-powered tracker, is the first device built for deployment on the hybrid HyperPulse network. It includes Bluetooth Low Energy sensor integration, allowing the tracker to act as a local sensor hub as well as a location device. The device is aimed at solution providers that need a low-cost foundation for large industrial IoT deployments.
Ben Cade, CEO of Myriota, said: “For decades, vast numbers of remote and distributed operational assets have remained disconnected – not because the technology didn’t exist, but because the economics never worked.”
The launch extends AssetHawk beyond the satellite-only proposition introduced earlier this year. Myriota’s earlier global satellite asset tracking service addressed assets that disappear from view when they leave cellular networks. Adding cellular connectivity changes the model by allowing the same device and contract to support assets that move constantly between connected and remote environments.
Simplicity is central to the commercial case. Many IoT projects fail at scale because integration, battery life, platform fragmentation, service contracts, and field maintenance weaken the business case. A device may be technically capable, but if deployment requires multiple dashboards, different connectivity agreements, frequent battery swaps, or manual intervention, operators struggle to justify rollout across thousands of assets.
Hybrid connectivity is becoming more useful as supply chains, utilities, energy, agriculture, mining, and infrastructure operations become more distributed. A generator might leave a depot, work on a construction site, then move to a remote energy project. A container might pass through a port, cross inland corridors, sit at a rail terminal, and then enter an area of weak coverage. A trailer fleet may spend most time on major roads but still require visibility during remote drops or temporary storage.
The connectivity problem is often intermittent remoteness rather than permanent remoteness. The cost model has to reflect that pattern. Using cellular where available and satellite only when required can reduce blended communication cost while maintaining operational visibility.
3GPP Release 17 also places the service within the wider convergence of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks. Satellite IoT has often developed through proprietary systems, but industrial buyers increasingly want standards, security, interoperability, and long-term device availability. Standards-based NTN capability could make satellite connectivity less of a specialist exception and more of a normal part of IoT architecture.
The market is still developing. Bandwidth, latency, message frequency, device life, installation quality, ruggedness, and platform integration will determine which use cases are economically viable. The most valuable deployments are likely to be those where small amounts of data prevent costly uncertainty: location, movement, temperature, vibration, utilisation, tamper events, fill levels, or basic condition monitoring.
Myriota’s hybrid launch points to a practical stage in industrial IoT. The aim is not to connect every asset with high-bandwidth data, but to make low-cost, low-power visibility available for equipment that has been too mobile, too remote, or too low-value to monitor consistently. If the pricing and deployment model hold at scale, hybrid satellite and cellular IoT could move further into mainstream industrial operations.
