# SiliconBrane Inc. > SiliconBrane Inc. is an independent Canadian R&D studio in LaSalle, Ontario, building embedded hardware, firmware, connected products, and the infrastructure around them. It is the company behind Drover, an off-grid LoRa/GNSS GPS tracking system. SiliconBrane Inc. was founded in 2018 by Kaushik Ray and Charrie Ray. Its flagship product, Drover, is in development and not yet for sale. ## What we do - **Embedded hardware**: PCB design and prototyping for low-power connected devices. - **Firmware**: bare-metal embedded firmware for microcontrollers, including Renesas and ARM Cortex-M platforms. - **Connected products**: long-range LoRa telemetry, multi-constellation GNSS positioning, and BLE links. - **Software**: the mobile apps, backend services, and infrastructure around the hardware. ## Products - [Drover](https://drovertracker.com): off-grid GPS tracking — Nomad trackers report over LoRa® to a hub, which relays the group to a phone app over BLE. No cell service, no subscription. Patent pending: U.S. Provisional Application No. 64/190,632, filed November 3, 2026. ## Pages - [Home](https://siliconbrane.com/): what SiliconBrane does, featured products, engineering principles, team, and contact. - [Privacy](https://siliconbrane.com/privacy.html): privacy policy — no cookies, no analytics; the contact form is the only data collection. - [Terms](https://siliconbrane.com/terms.html): terms of use for this website. ## Contact - Email: contact@siliconbrane.com - Location: LaSalle, Ontario, Canada