Technology Overview

Ultra-Link Processing™ is the first wireless system purpose-built to solve the challenges of metro scale and other challenging radio environments for sensor, metering and asset tracking data. The technology addresses problems limiting wide-scale deployments of wireless sensors and metering devices, such as signal range and robustness to interference. The grounds up development of the ULP technology fills a massive gap in wireless performance between the existing communications platforms of higher data rate licensed spectrum cellular systems and free spectrum short range wireless radio platforms (e.g., 802.11, 802.15.4) with mesh networking.

Ultra-Link Processing™ (ULP)

Operating in un-licensed spectrum, this signal processing innovation finds weak signals even in high noise environments, yielding extreme coverage, high level of immunity to interference, and significantly lowers the cost to deploy and operate a network. The technology’s ability to offer customer 100s of square miles of robust low-power coverage in free spectrum, with minimal network infrastructure, is unique in the industry. Prior to the arrival of ULP the industry was required to add complex and capacity inefficient mesh protocol stacks and cellular backhaul to stitch together coverage. This results in complex network planning exercises and high infrastructure and operational costs that live on for years after the first rollouts are complete.