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How SATEL keeps mission-critical data moving in heavy machinery
Linux-based embedded systems, wireless connectivity with cloud integration, hardware and user interface design — a partnership running since 2022.
SATEL
Customer context
SATEL is a global forerunner in radio technology. Its solutions secure mission-critical data communication in conditions where consumer networks simply do not reach or cannot be trusted.
Who uses it
An installer configuring a device on a machine at a work site, and a fleet operator who needs the link to stay up. The BT-RS232 adapter exists because the device itself has no interface: configuration happens over Bluetooth from a phone, standing next to the machine, in the same way as SATEL's other products.
- Yocto Linux-based embedded system for the MCCU-30 multi-band vehicle router
- Facility monitoring and message management
- Mobile application for remote configuration
- Mechanical design
The challenge
Modern machinery needs more than a radio link. It needs an intelligent hub that manages several bands, monitors the installation, handles messages and can be configured remotely — while remaining dependable in the field.
Why the obvious solution was not enough
This is exactly the kind of work a standard IoT platform cannot absorb. The requirements sit in embedded Linux, radio behaviour and hardware design, where the product's value lives in the details rather than in a dashboard.
The SADE approach
SADE has supported SATEL's development since 2022, working across embedded software, connectivity, hardware and user interfaces as a long-term extension of SATEL's own engineering.
Technology and delivery
- Yocto Linux-based embedded system development for the MCCU-30 multi-band vehicle router
- Facility monitoring and message management
- Mechanical design contributions to earlier MCCU devices
- SATEL BT-RS232 adapter, adding Bluetooth connectivity to devices without it
- Mobile application software enabling remote configuration
Business outcome
- MCCU-30 acts as an intelligent data transmission hub in heavy machinery
- Devices without native Bluetooth can be configured remotely like the rest of the SATEL range
- A multi-year engineering partnership across software, hardware and UI
What happens next
Collaboration continues across SATEL's connectivity product family.
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