We are doing a satellite integration with Hubble Network - 24/7 global coverage, no increase in battery life. It sounds like scifi but 2 satellites are up. Give us a year...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41287031
Can you manage TILEs via Meshtastic? https://meshtastic.org/docs/software/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40llxjrIG3w&t=44s
I think there a lot of interesting things to make bike mesh a part of a security fabric - but ensuring that there is no way to spy on location data thats not yours? Doubt thats possible...
I tried to build this after leaving Lockheed in 2007 where we built the RFID tracking for .mil as Savi Networks..
All the cell integrations (pre IoT) were cost prohibitive.
Its wonderful to see how much has taken place in this area since a bunch of us tried and failed to get funding back then :-)