BR1 Mini 5G Now with Built-in Wi-Fi!

[Noah_Helterbrand]

@AstroJoe

However if you use the BR1 Mini 5G in combination with a Starlink dish you can get the GPS location from the Starlink.

I love it. Almost forgot about that feature. Except it would cost $1000/mo per vehicle and the antenna is half the size of a police interceptor trunk lid. No departments we work with would ever approve it.

@Andrew_Fidel

I would guess there are plenty of customers who get their GPS info from the telematics in the vehicle and so have no need for it in the network layer.

We do a lot of work with public safety clients. I’ve never had a client that had any form of system which could use vehicle built-in telematics (and most police and fire vehicles don’t come from the factory with it either). All their AVL systems are setup to get their GPS position from the vehicle network, which the peplink Mini’s are outstanding at providing, so we sell a ton of them. That’s why it’s such a disappointment to finally get a 5G wifi Mini, and then have GPS axed from it.

[Travis]

I appreciate the feedback and understand the lack of GPS makes it a no go for many mobile applications. Just so you know, this isn’t us taking GPS out, the 4G cellular radios include GPS onboard, but in the 5G world, the modules no longer include this hardware, so other models with GPS have dedicated GPS hardware to support this capability. The BR1 Mini hardware would need to be redesigned to support it there as well. For today, that isn’t possible, but we hear you.

[Jonathan_Pitts]

Travis, Thanks for sharing this, I didn’t realize this.