Dublin-based EchoStar SATS 0.00 recently announced that seven European IoT service providers have signed multi-year commercial agreements to develop and sell IoT solutions using EchoStar Mobile’s satellite-based LoRa-enabled IoT network.
API K, Cyric, DalesLandNet, Dryad, Galaxy1, ProEsys and Symes, plan to scale IoT deployments for leveraging the real-time network to enable massive IoT deployments for such applications as outdoor personal geo-safety, soil moisture monitoring, early forest fire detection, utility metering and pipeline monitoring. Most of the companies offer tracking and monitoring services. For example, France-based API-K provides tracking services for outdoor activities.
EchoStar Mobile is compatible with Semtech’s SMTC 0.00 LoRa-enabled wireless platform for device connectivity. EchoStar XXI S-band satellite will deliver two-way connectivity across Europe.
EchoStar Mobile Limited is the EchoStar subsidiary in Europe that operates a mobile satellite system (MSS) network using the geostationary EchoStar XXI satellite. EchoStar is developing an S-band constellation of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, called EchoStar Lyra, to support IoT connectivity. The company said it plans to explore a global non-terrestrial 5G network in the S-band.
