Low power developer equipment specialist Pycom has announced a major reinvention of its wheelhouse, with plans to enter the service game and offer consumer asset tracking. The platform, powered by a collection of LPWAN protocols, is illustrative of the power of consumer IoT technologies, but faces a rather large hill to climb – gaining enough buy-in to prove viable as a standalone platform. There are prominent Bluetooth-only equivalents, from Tile and Trackr, which have enjoyed success, as well as some cellular trackers and a few LoRa experiments. However, the PyGo device appears to be the most comprehensive unit to date, although it must first graduate through Kickstarter. Pycom has enjoyed considerable success with crowdfunding, however, smashing the goals for its…