Freematics ONE+ is getting a hardware refresh with an all-black PCB and additional metal shielding designed to help reduce unwanted electromagnetic interference. A practical refinement, with a sharper industrial look. New version starts to ship from Jan 2027.
Band 28 is a low-frequency LTE band (700 MHz) widely deployed by Australian carriers.
From a radio perspective:
It forms the coverage layer of LTE networks.
If a tracking device doesn’t support Band 28, it will eventually lose connectivity in Australia – which has enormous regional/rural areas as well as incredibly long and deep tunnels like those under metropolitan Sydney. That’s why Freematics ONE+ now ships with SIM7670 (B28 supported) for reliable Australia deployments.
Please excuse us for taking a break and getting away for the last bit of summer. We will be happily processing your orders from 29 Jan.
The United States announced significant changes to its import tariff rules in US Executive Order 14324. These changes, impact business customers shipping items from Australia to the US and created chaos. To avoid shipment delays and returns due to customers not responding to import duty payment requests from shipping carriers, we will prepay the import tariff for all shipments to the US, and will increase US shipping fee to cover some of the cost. Shipping fees for all other countries remain unchanged.
Australia Post has resumed postal services to the US and its Overseas Territories.
Due to recently announced changes to import tariffs for postal items sent to the US and Puerto Rico, Australia Post has temporarily suspended some postal services to these destinations, effective 26 August 2025 until further notice.
UPDATE: Australia Post resuming all US shipping by September 25
The community beloved Freematics ONE+ Traccar Edition now comes with option of SIM7670E which is SIMCOM’s latest LTE CAT-1 cellular module based on Qualcomm QCX216 chipset. SIM7670E is designed for Europe with support for LTE-FDD B1/B3/B5/B7/B8/B20. It also adapts to Australia perfectly with its supports of B28.
Several users have brought up the discussions about sending custom CAN messages with Freematics ONE+. Well, this has always been possible but we just didn’t include API for doing this in the OBD library due to security concern as ONE+ could be internet connected. With EV uprising, sending custom CAN messages seems to be the only way to extract data from these vehicles though proprietary information is needed to make the data meaningful. We have now added simple APIs for sending CAN messages to ECU in a move to open up more possibilities and leave the hard job to the community. Following is an example of send a CAN message for clearing DTC.
// send a CAN message (clearing DTC)
obd.setCANID(0x7E0);
obd.setHeaderMask(0xFFFFFF);
obd.setHeaderFilter(0x7E8);
byte msg[] = {0x14, 0xFF, 0x00};
char buf[128];
if (obd.sendCANMessage(msg, sizeof(msg), buf, sizeof(buf))) {
// print the ECU response to the message
Serial.println(buf);
}