Myriota has added cellular connectivity to its HyperPulse 5G non-terrestrial network and AssetHawk tracker, creating a single hybrid service for assets that move between terrestrial and remote environments.

One of the persistent weaknesses in industrial IoT is not the lack of connectivity options, but the gap between them. Cellular networks are efficient where coverage exists; satellite fills the remote-area problem, but can be harder to justify for assets that only occasionally leave terrestrial coverage. The difficult category is the asset that moves between both worlds: trailers, generators, containers, field equipment and distributed infrastructure that cannot be neatly assigned to either cellular-only or satellite-only designs.

Myriota is now targeting that middle ground by adding cellular connectivity to its HyperPulse 5G NTN service and its AssetHawk asset tracker. The company says the result is a hybrid IoT network in which messages can be routed automatically over cellular or satellite, depending on availability and configuration, under a single connectivity contract.

The important point is not simply that Myriota has put two radios or two network options into the same proposition. Hybrid IoT connectivity is increasingly common as terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks converge. What makes this announcement more specific is that Myriota is extending its own HyperPulse infrastructure layer with cellular access, rather than positioning satellite as a separate backup service that customers must procure, integrate and manage alongside a cellular provider.

A hybrid model aimed at intermittent remoteness

That distinction matters because many industrial assets do not spend all their time in remote regions. A container may be visible in a port, disappear from cellular networks during inland movement, and reappear at a logistics site. A generator may rotate between urban depots and field locations. In those cases, the business case is not the same as a permanently remote satellite IoT deployment.

By using cellular where it is available and satellite where it is not, Myriota is addressing the blended economics of these deployments. The company says hybrid data plans start at USD $0.99 per device per month, and that the network can route messages to the most cost-effective available path. The operational implication is clear: satellite connectivity becomes less of a fixed-cost decision for every message and more of a coverage layer used when the asset’s location demands it.

HyperPulse is described by Myriota as compliant with 3GPP Release 17 and compatible with a growing ecosystem of standards-based silicon. The network currently covers the US, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Saudi Arabia, with additional markets due to launch this year. The inclusion of Release 17 is relevant because it places the service within the cellular industry’s formal NTN evolution, rather than treating satellite IoT as a proprietary island outside mainstream IoT architectures.

Why this is different from a typical tracker launch

AssetHawk, Myriota’s ruggedised, battery-powered tracker, is the first device built for the hybrid HyperPulse network. The device includes BLE sensor integration, which allows it to act not only as a location tracker but also as a local sensor aggregation point for nearby measurements. For solution providers, that changes the integration model: a single installed device can support asset visibility while also collecting data from local BLE-enabled sensors.

A concrete implication is that deployments may require less coordination across separate connectivity stacks. Instead of reconciling satellite messages from one platform and cellular messages from another, integrators can work around a single device and service construct. That does not remove application-layer integration work, but it reduces one of the common sources of complexity in hybrid asset tracking: fragmented contracts, device profiles and network management environments.

For OEMs, the announcement points to a route for embedding satellite-capable coverage without forcing every use case into satellite-only economics. Connectivity providers will read it as another sign that NTN is being pulled into mainstream IoT service packaging. System integrators may find the most immediate value in projects where asset movement is unpredictable, particularly in logistics, utilities, construction, mining support operations and remote infrastructure monitoring.

The broader industry relevance is the shift from coverage as a binary choice to coverage as an orchestration problem. ABI Research forecasts that IoT connections using non-terrestrial network standards will grow from 2.08 million in 2024 to nearly 14 million by 2032. Myriota’s move sits within that trend, but its practical focus is narrower and more operational: making hybrid terrestrial-satellite connectivity usable for industrial assets that are only sometimes beyond cellular reach.

Myriota says hybrid connectivity across HyperPulse and AssetHawk will be available later this month. If the model performs as described, its significance will be less about adding another tracker to the market and more about simplifying the commercial and technical packaging of hybrid IoT coverage.

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