Space IoT takes off
We know that current networks are not equipped to deal with the Internet of Things and the exponential growth in connected devices it entails. Whilst Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) technologies will be crucial to cope with future needs, experts increasingly look towards satellites as a complementary solution, especially for scarcely populated areas. The IoTEE project is proposing a receiver/emitter device to make space-based IoT a reality.
Although the project was kicked off in 2017, IoTEE’s story goes all the way back to 2014 with the early development of TELDASAT – a low cost M2M communication service using existing space-based infrastructure to provide IoT communications. The point of this ESA-funded project? Coming first on a market set to count a total of 2 billion LPWA device units by 2022.