It's got LTE-M which is perfect for this, and LoRa and SigFox as backup. A year's service is about $40
Unfortunately it's not untracked like the old pagers were but in return it should do confirmations and even replies somehow. I'll have to add a beeper/vibration motor and a stronger battery perhaps but I think it'll work.
I'm thinking of building a Pager with the pygo2 once it finally hits the market: https://pycom.io/product/pygo2/
It's got LTE-M which is perfect for this, and LoRa and SigFox as backup. A year's service is about $40
Unfortunately it's not untracked like the old pagers were but in return it should do confirmations and even replies somehow. I'll have to add a beeper/vibration motor and a stronger battery perhaps but I think it'll work.