When cash-in-transit vehicles move millions of pounds through city streets, or valuable assets travel across continents, the security technology protecting them must work flawlessly. From their Saltash base in Cornwall, Secure Innovation uses satellite-dependent technology to deliver these much-needed security solutions worldwide.
Secure Innovation is a UK-based intelligent security solutions company specialising in protecting cash-in-transit operations, ATMs, and high-value assets across multiple sectors.
Their flagship product, Remote Planet, demonstrates how space technology has become essential to modern security operations. The system combines GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) positioning, roaming GSM cellular networks, and RF (Radio Frequency) technology to deliver location accuracy within 5 metres, ensuring assets can be tracked continuously wherever they travel.
Always-on tracking and management like this simply wouldn’t be possible without space infrastructure – every location fix, every status update, and every remote authorisation command relies on signals transmitted between ground-based assets and orbiting satellites.
Secure Innovation’s approach integrates IoT (Internet of Things), satellite connectivity, and secure hardware manufacturing. Their ibox range of secure containers – including the ibox rds, which the company calls “the world’s strongest CIT box” – showcases how satellite technology enables intelligent systems that provide real-time data, remote authorisation, and complete visibility throughout supply chains. These aren’t just locked boxes; they’re connected devices that depend on space-based positioning and communication to function.
Secure Innovation’s products serve as powerful examples of how space technology has become embedded in everyday critical operations, even when the end application is firmly terrestrial.
The company’s partnership with OpenSys Technologies demonstrates how satellite-based tracking has transformed traditional industries. OpenSys’s SmartCIT service revolutionises cash-in-transit operations by automating processes through IoT, Big Data Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence. At the heart of this system is Secure Innovation’s Remote Planet solution, which provides always-on two-way communication through its satellite positioning capabilities.
Key capabilities enabled by Secure Innovation’s solution include remote authorisation to open secure containers (eliminating emergency key distribution), exceptional connectivity that maintains communication even in challenging environments, and seamless real-time data transmission that enables efficient operations planning.
As Luke Sebastian, CEO of OpenSys Technologies, explains, the Remote Planet integration provided them “a competitive advantage in our digital solution offerings that increases service levels and efficiency” – demonstrating how satellite connectivity enables intelligent, data-driven, terrestrial operations.
For years, Cornwall’s distance from major industrial centers was seen as a disadvantage. Pre-COVID, convincing customers to visit was difficult. Now, with more work conducted online, it’s become a level playing field. Distance is no longer the barrier it once was.
In fact, location has become a major positive differentiator; major aerospace and defence primes now recognise that sourcing from Cornwall offers them higher social value scores than procurement from established industrial hubs. Their support of manufacturing in a region not traditionally seen as an industrial center demonstrates a genuine commitment to Cornwall’s regional development and economic diversity.
