Seven IoT service providers in Europe have signed multi-year deals to develop and sell IoT solutions using EchoStar Mobile’s satellite LoRa network. The customers are API-K, Cyric IoT, DalesLandNet, Dryad Networks, Galaxy1, ProEsys and Symes. They will use the service, offering satellite coverage in European territories, for their various IoT applications, which include outdoor geo-safety, soil moisture monitoring, forest fire detection, utility metering, and pipeline monitoring.
Dublin-based EchoStar Corporation, operating satellite IoT services under the EchoStar Mobile brand in Europe, claims to be the first to offer bi-directional, real-time LoRa-enabled connectivity across Europe in licensed S-band spectrum via a single geostationary satellite (EchoStar XXI). It claims to offer LoRa-based multinational service continuity in Europe to meet the needs of mobility customers in sectors including utilities, transportation, railway, logistics and agriculture.
The S-band service delivers pervasive two-way connectivity in Europe without the need for roaming agreements with different terrestrial operators, and with coverage in black-spots and not-spots where ground-based mobile networks do not reach. Meanwhile, EchoStar is developing a larger S-band constellation of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, under the brand EchoStar Lyra, to support global non-terrestrial 5G S-band connectivity for IoT applications.
France-based API-K provides LoRaWAN based racking and monitoring services for outdoor leisure activities; Cyprus-based Cyric IoT offers LoRaWAN water monitoring services, UK-based DalesLandNet offers soil moisture monitoring, also with LoRaWAN, Germany-based Dryad Networks has a LoRaWAN solution to issue emergency services with early warnings about forest fires, Dutch-firm Galaxy1 offers various satellite IoT solutions, Italy-based ProEsys offers LoRaWAN solutions for infrastructure monitoring, and French engineering firm Symes is a specialist in IoT pipeline monitoring.
Telemaco Melia, vice president and general manager at EchoStar Mobile, commented: “We thank these innovative customers for choosing the EchoStar Mobile IoT network to meet their requirements for real-time, bi-directional sensor connectivity across agritech, utility, consumer recreational tracking and environmental markets. These deployments validate our customer value proposition by integrating seamlessly into the existing IoT ecosystem, achieving ubiquitous service continuity for our customers without requiring expensive terrestrial infrastructure.”
