Eutelsat kickstarts IoT business with GEO Ku-band service

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 Fleet operator Eutelsat Communications of Paris on Oct. 28 said it is starting a connectivity service for Internet of Things devices using its geostationary satellite fleet.
The service, called Eutelsat IoT First, precedes a low-Earth-orbit constellation of 25 smallsats and hosted payloads Eutelsat plans to begin launching next year>.
Luis Jimenez-Tunon, group executive vice president of Eutelsat’s data business, said Eutelsat’s move to start a geostationary IoT service doesn’t eliminate the need for the company’s Eutelsat LEO for Objects constellation.
The geostationary Eutelsat IoT First service will link “large fixed assets” in Ku-band that need to move hundreds of megabits worth of data over the internet, Jimenez-Tunon said.
Eutelsat’s LEO constellation will use ISM frequencies to connect smaller devices that only need to move a few bytes of data per day, he said.
MBI Group of Pisa, Italy, is providing the hubs, which are specialized for IoT instead of traditional satellite services like connecting very small aperture terminals, he said.
As a Ku-band IoT service, Eutelsat may end up competing with Kepler Communications of Toronto, Canada, whose LEO cubesats use the same type of frequency.
“To that end, we see ourselves as complementary to other Ku-band service offerings whether they be Eutelsat’s Ku-band IoT service, or traditional Ku-band broadband satellites, or even large [non-geosynchronous satellite systems] in Ku-band.”
Jimenez-Tunon said the Eutelsat IoT First service activates Oct. 29 across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Eutelsat is considering expanding the service to sub-Saharan Africa and the Asia-Pacific, though such expansions, particularly into the Asia Pacific, could require more teleport infrastructure, he said.
Eutelsat’s ELO smallsat and hosted payload constellation will use existing ground stations and not the same ground segment hardware as the GEO service, he said

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