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| Company type | Wireless data networking |
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| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1993 by Orbital Sciences and Teleglobe |
| Headquarters | Rochelle Park, New Jersey, United States |
Key people | Chairman: Jerome (Jerry) Eisenberg CFO: Dean Milcos CEO: Sameer Agrawal EVP Technology and Operations: John J. Stolte |
| Products | Industrial Internet, telecommunications and informatics, and satellite communications. [buzzword] |
| Revenue |  US$248 million (2020) |
Number of employees | 800 |
| Website | www.orbcomm.com |
ORBCOMM is an American company that offers industrial internet and machine to machine (M2M)[1] communications hardware, software and services designed to track, monitor, and control fixed and mobile assets in markets including transportation, heavy equipment, maritime, oil and gas, utilities and government. The company provides hardware devices, modems, web applications, and data services delivered over multiple satellites and cellular networks.
As of June 30, 2021, ORBCOMM has more than 2.3 million billable subscriber communicators,[2] serving original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) such as Caterpillar Inc., Doosan Infracore America, Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., John Deere, Komatsu Limited, and Volvo Construction Equipment, as well as other customers such as J. B. Hunt,[3] C&S Wholesale Grocers, Canadian National Railways, C.R. England, Hub Group, KLLM Transport Services, Marten Transport, Swift Transportation, Target, Tropicana, Tyson Foods, Walmart and Werner Enterprises.[4]
ORBCOMM owns and operates a global network of 31 low Earth orbit (LEO) communications satellite and accompanying ground infrastructure, including 16 gateway Earth stations (GESs) around the world. ORBCOMM is licensed to provide service in more than 130 countries and territories worldwide.[5]