[beachy]

If you want to diy it, Check out ray Ozzie's recent project featured here on HN recently. Very reasonable priced with one up front payment for (10 ?) years of connectivity

[sipacate]

Here are some articles and projects where we show how to do Asset Tracking. One article is about an Iceland trip, the other is about building out a GPS tracker, complete with data dashboards.

Iceland: https://blues.io/blog/vacation-gps-asset-tracker/

Full Asset Tracking Project: https://www.hackster.io/paige-niedringhaus/low-code-gps-asse...

Adapting this for a car would be straightforward.

[electrum]

$49 for the device and data: https://blues.io/

[mikeatlas]

https://blues.io/

[heleninboodler]

This feels like a dumb question, but I can't find dimensions of the Notecard anywhere and I can't quite judge the scale from the pictures. How big is it?

[c17r]

https://github.com/blues/note-hardware/blob/master/Notecard/... has the measurements, looks like 35mm x 30mm

[bigiain]

Keep in mind that’s he card with a M.2 edge connector on one end. Mostly you’d be plugging that into something, at least to hook up the power/data lines. They sell “Note Carriers” for that, which end up making the combo bigger than that.

Here’s a pic of the note card plugged into their Raspberry Pi note carrier. That’s a standard 40 pin 0.1” spacing connector on the left, so it’s 2” plus the mounting holes in that dimension. 65x57mm and about 20mm tall for the stackable 40 pin socket+pins.

https://flic.kr/p/2mkQAS7

[Workaccount2]

What service are they using that gives 10 yrs of connectivity for a flat price?

[brk]

Probably "VC Cash".

I've got a couple of the units and can say they are working well and very easy to interface with.

[stingrae]

It's not 10 years of unlimited data. It's 500MB of data usable over 10 years.