Multi-year battery life for cellular IoT and Skylo NB-NTN, with the Altair ALT1350

Billions of cellular IoT assets, pipelines and power lines, ships and ports, farms and livestock, environmental sensors, lone workers, still operate where terrestrial coverage is unreliable, intermittent, or simply absent. For these deployments, reaching a satellite has traditionally meant a separate, expensive, proprietary radio running alongside the cellular device, along with a battery penalty most products can’t absorb.

This white paper explores how the Altair ALT1350, newly certified by Skylo to support NB-IoT non-terrestrial networking (NB-NTN), closes that gap without the power cost. Already live on Skylo’s commercial satellite network, NB-NTN lets a single chipset talk to a terrestrial cell and a satellite using the same protocol stack, SIM, and cloud path.

The paper dives into how this proven approach can also deliver years of real-world battery life over satellite, not just on the ground, for the short, infrequent uplinks that drive most field deployments. By adopting the ALT1350 with Skylo, device makers can collapse “connected” and “satellite-connected” into a single design and promise customers years of life in the field, wherever there’s open sky.