Fastrack Supreme User Guide
Technical Characteristics
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Notes:
Short description of Class IE13 (For more information see standard IEC 60721-3-1)
"Locations without controlled temperature and humidity, where heating may be used to raise low
temperatures, locations in buildings providing minimal protection against daily variations of external climate,
prone to receiving rainfall from carrying wind".
Short description of Class IE23 (For more information, see standard IEC 60721-3-2)
"Transportation in unventilated compartments and in conditions without protection against bad weather, in all
sorts of trucks and trailers in areas of well developed road network, in trains equipped with buffers specially
designed to reduce shocks and by boat".
Short description of Class IE35 (For more information see standard IEC 60721-3-3)
"Locations with no control on heat or humidity where heating may be used to raise low temperatures, to
places inside a building to avoid extremely high temperatures, to places such as hallways, building
staircases, cellars, certain workshops, equipment stations without surveillance".
Short description of Class IE73 (For more information see standard IEC 60721-3-7)
"Transfer to places where neither temperature nor humidity are controlled but where heating may be used to
raise low temperatures, to places exposed to water droplets, products can be subjected to ice formation,
these conditions are found in hallways and building staircases, garages, certain workshops, factory building
and places for industrial processes and hardware stations without surveillance".
Warning: The specification in the above table applies to the FASTRACK Supreme product only.
Customers are advised to verify that the environmental specification of the SIM Card used is
compliant with the FASTRACK Supreme environmental specifications. Any application must be
qualified by the customer with the SIM Card in storage, transportation and operation
.
The use of standard SIM cards may drastically reduce the environmental conditions in which the Product can
be used. These cards are particularly sensible to humidity and temperature changes. These conditions may
produce oxidation of the SIM card metallic layers and cause, in the long term, electrical discontinuities. This
is particularly true in left alone applications, where no frequent extraction/insertion of the SIM card is
performed.
In case of mobility when the application is moved through different environments with temperature variations,
some condensation may appear. These events have a negative impact on the SIM and may favor oxidation.
If the use of standard SIM card, with exposition to the environmental conditions described above, can not be
avoided, special care must be taken in the integration of the final application in order to minimize the impact
of these conditions. The solutions that may be proposed are:
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Lubrication of the SIM card to protect the SIM Contact from oxidation.
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Putting the FASTRACK Supreme Plug & Play in a waterproof enclosure with desiccant bags.
Lubrication of the SIM card had been tested by Wavecom (using Tutela Fluid 43EM from MOLYDUVAL) and
gives very good results.
If waterproof enclosure with a desiccant solution is used, check with your desiccant retailer the quantity that
must be used according to the enclosure dimensions. Ensure humidity has been removed before sealing the
enclosure.
Any solution selected must be qualified by the customer on the final application.
To minimize oxidation problem on the SIM card, its manipulation must be done with the greatest precautions.
In particular, the metallic contacts of the card must never be touched with bare fingers or any matter which
