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<h2 class="title">Solar Panels for Industrial Asset Tracking</h2>
<div>Asset tracking provides data that helps businesses optimize asset allocation and delivery routes, increase utilization, improve overall productivity, and ultimately reduce the costs associated with lost, stolen, or misplaced assets. <br /><br />Voltaic provides solar panels for hardware companies serving the logistics and transportation industry. Our <a href="../small-solar-panels/">solar panels</a> are deployed over 800,000 tractor trailers, shipping containers, and railcars.</div>
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<td>Global Telematics Company</td>
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<li>Custom solar panel with molex connector</li>
<li>Custom injection molded enclosure</li>
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<td>Monocrystalline with ETFE lamination</td>
<td>Tractor trailers</td>
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<td>IoT Company</td>
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<li>Custom solar panel with wire</li>
<li>Custom thermoformed packaging</li>
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<td>SunPower with ETFE lamination</td>
<td>Shipping containers</td>
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<td>Rail Logistics Company</td>
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<li>Modification of our standard <a href="https://voltaicsystems.com/p124">P124</a> with custom connector</li>
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<td>SunPower with ETFE lamination</td>
<td>Railcars</td>
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<td>SunPower with ETFE lamination and ENIG contacts</td>
<td>Tractor trailers</td>
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<li>Custom solar panel</li>
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<td>Monocrystalline with glass lamination</td>
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<li>Modification of our standard <a href="https://voltaicsystems.com/p102">P102</a></li>
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<td>Monocrystalline with potted urethane</td>
<td>Farm equipment</td>
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<li>Understand the solar energy available to your device in its unique environment</li>
<li>Select or design the appropriately sized panels for your system based on your power consumption</li>
<li>Advise on charging circuitry to help your device harvest solar energy as efficiently as possible, and help you test the system charging efficiency</li>
<li>Strategize how to mount panels securely on a bracket or to an enclosure</li>
<li>Select materials and construction techniques to meet the unique demands of your application</li>
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<h2>Got a project that needs solar?</h2>
<p>Voltaic designs and manufactures custom, high-quality solar panels and mounting solutions.</p>
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<li>Customer data sampling and transmission profiles vary widely so it can be difficult to come to a single number for expected power consumption</li>
<li>Signal transmission and energy cost can be affected by geographic location and network coverage</li>
<li>Replacing or repairing devices because a primary battery has fully discharged is costly and logistically challenging</li>
<li>Asset tracking systems must run continuously in an extremely wide range of operating conditions, and in some cases are subject to pressure washers, ice scrapers and chemical sprays</li>
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<li>Extend the system lifetime in the field, reducing labor and replacement costs</li>
<li>Increase the frequency of data transmission (ping rate)</li>
<li>Reduce battery size</li>
<li>Reduce electronics waste</li>
<li>Even in cases where systems have intermittent access to the sun, like with shipping containers, <a href="https://voltaicsystems.com/small-solar-panels/">solar panels </a>can provide sufficient power to run a device continuously for ten years or more.</li>
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