This bachelor thesis presents the development of a tracking device based on GPS positioning and LTE-M and NB-IoT cellular connectivity. It begins with an overview of different types of LPWAN networks, explores the characteristics of LTE-M and NB-IoT, presents common communication protocols for IoT devices communicating over the Internet and describes some of the widely used IoT positioning methods. In the second part it focuses on the development of the tracking device where it first presents the system-in-package Nordic nRF9160 and proceeds with an overview of the software development kit, OS and IDE used for the development of the embedded software. In the end it presents the backend application along with the web app for viewing the location of different tracking devices.
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