Introducing the Oyster Edge
Written by Matthew Clark-Massera
Updated at June 30th, 2025
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The Oyster Edge
The Oyster Edge is an ultra-rugged, Indoor/Outdoor battery-powered asset tracking device and Bluetooth® Gateway. It features cloud-based location solving for 10+ years of battery life.
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What's in the box?
You will get a compact box containing the Oyster Edge + standard housing.
The Oyster Edge comes with
Provisioning your Oyster Edge
- Initial Provisioning - Oyster Edge
- Choose a SIM Card Provider
- Install a Micro (4FF) SIM Card
- Review Admin Parameters
- Insert Batteries
- Seal the Housing
- Integration (Product code: 92)
Features
Tracking Features
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Scheduled Uploads | Configure specific times for a device to upload its data. |
| Inactivity Timer | Receive an alert when your assets are being underutilized. |
| Basic Tracking | These parameters determine the tracking mode and tracking intervals. |
| Battery Voltage | Set the battery low threshold. |
| Wake Filter | Filters out the small movements noticed by the accelerometer |
| Upload timeout | Select a registration strategy and specify the duration the device will attempt to upload data before timing out. |
| Accelerometer | Adjust the accelerometer thresholds required to wake the device or begin a trip. |
Bluetooth Features
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| BLE Eddystone | Filter your BLE Tags to a select set of Eddystone protocol tags |
| BLE iBeacon | Filter your BLE Tags to a select set of iBeacon protocol tags |
| BLE MAC Filter | Use the MAC address of your devices as filters to ignore unwanted signals |
| BLE User Integrated Tags | Filter your BLE Tags to any tag type to expand your options for BLE tags |
| BLE Advanced Scanning | Communicate via active scans and change the scan technology for better integration. |
| BLE Generic Tag Analog Mapping | Make the device report sensor readings from a BLE tag as if they were ‘married’ |
Enabling Features
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Time Zone and Daylight Savings | Configure specific datetime settings to assist with scheduled uploads. |
| After Hours | Assign working times by days of the week and activate auto-recovery mode. |
| High-G Detection | Monitor and log events where a device experiences significant G-force |
| Tip Detection and Rotation Counting | Identifies tipping events, and Rotation Counting tracks uncoiling movements |
| SMS | Prevent the device from responding to unwanted SMS commands. |
| Recovery Mode | Easily switch from infrequent tracking to ‘live tracking’ to recover an asset. |
Critical parameters
- The Oyster Edge has different configurable tracking modes to best fit a variety of applications Oyster Edge - Changing the Update Rate
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