April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... SpaceX and OneWeb. A new, emerging technology is laser communication, used by Facebook’s drones. These new approaches to providing internet connections from the sky or space - dubbed ‘sky-fi’ - bring with them both technical and political challenges...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
...becoming an issue especially as the industry moves toward internet protocol (IP) infrastructure, hybrid networks and cloud-based ... integrate the devices, applications, and users of the Internet, it must take advantage of satellite technology. But ...
April 2017
Mega-challenges for mega-constellations
... access from space appears to be a logical alternative to costly infrastructure on the ground. Today, internet broadband services are rendered through telecommunication providers using satellites in geostationary orbit but their significant data...
September 2019
Expectations in a connected world
... how satellite fits into the connectivity ecosystem. Improved connectivity from wireless mobile signals and in-house internet has resulted in the satellite industry having to compete with cheap and reliable terrestrial systems. Of course, satellites...
16 January 2020
World premier: first plant-powered IoT sensor sends signal to space
...operate independent from sunlight, day and night. The Internet of Things (IoT) prototype device, developed by the... Orbit (LEO) satellite system that will provide a global Internet-of-Things service. The service allows collecting data from sensors even...
25 November 2021
European scientists bounced first ever LoRa message off the Moon
... It also proved that LoRa technology, used for many IoT (Internet of things) applications, can cover such great distances, and that... of Lacuna Space, a global connectivity provider for the Internet of Things, said: “Seeing the message coming back from...
