Iridium Extreme 9575 LBS Services

IRIDIUM EXTREME 9575 LBS SERVICE PLANS- LOCATION BASED SERVICES

Iridium Extreme 9575 LBS (Location Based Services) is a data service that allows you to cost-effectively send and receive short burst data transactions efficiently over the Iridium network. GPS Tracking on the Iridium Extreme 9575 goes over a channel on the Iridium network called LBS. LBS is different from the channel that sends voice, data, and SMS. The Iridium Extreme 9575 satellite phone has an integrated GPS. This allows you to send GPS tracking pings over the Iridium network, giving you coverage everywhere on the planet.

There are a few ways to use the Iridium Extreme 9575 as a Personal GPS Tracking Device. The most popular option is for the user to set the Iridium Extreme 9575 to utilize the SMS functionality of your service plan. Your airtime invoice will show an outbound SMS message for each time tracking information was sent.

For example, if you want to turn on tracking for a single day hike you have planned, you might select a 30-minute time interval and transmit over an 8-hour period. This means you would send about 16 SMS messages. On most Iridium service plans this would cost well under $10, which is not much for the feeling of safety and letting your family and friends know exactly where you are exploring. However, If you intend to use tracking services heavily on a year-round basis, it is more economical to use the Iridium Extreme 9575 LBS feature instead of SMS messaging to transmit your position reports. LBS is billed according to the total bytes of data transmitted.

LBS ON IRIDIUM EXTREME 9575 & HOW IT WORKS

IRIDIUM EXTREME 9575 GPS & LOCATION BASED SERVICE FEATURES

There are four main components to setup and use these features which allow you to view, send, or restrict your location information.

• Location Options Setup Menu: located in the Iridium Extreme main menu in the setup section, Location Options is where you customize your GPS, emergency, message, and format options.
• Programmable SOS button: this red button is located on the top of the phone, under a protective cover. By removing the cover and pressing the red button you can send your location information to your designated contact in the event of an emergency.
• Location Convenience Key: located on the right side of the phone, you can to press this key to view your location and share it via SMS to either a pre-programmed “Quick GPS” contacts or a new message contact.
• Online portal integration with 3rd party providers enable the transmission of the phone’s location information on a scheduled interval via short-burst data (SBD) to 3rd party portal providers for online tracking

SOS/EMERGENCY BUTTON MESSAGE FORMAT

This message contains the following information:
• EMERGENCY notification
• The Latitude and standard deviation for accuracy
• The Longitude and standard deviation for accuracy
• The Altitude and standard deviation for accuracy
• The number of GPS satellites that were visible to the phone to assist with gauging accuracy
• The date (year – month – day) and time (UTC)
• The % of phone battery charge remaining
• The language of the phone menu setting to give some indication of the language of the user (ex. “en” is English)
• Sent via Iridium