BB26.J - IoT/M2M over satellite
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| Title | Ubiquitous IoT/M2M coverage and connectivity via satellite. Satellite technology resources and cost optimization for M2M applications |
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| Page Title | |
| Technology Line | Reference Architecture/Implementation |
| Lead partner | INDRA |
| Leader | Xavier Alberti |
| Contributors | INDRA |
| Related to Use Cases | SCOTT:WP11, SCOTT:WP18 |
| Description | moved into BB26.A - Satellite modem (remote terminal) for IoT/M2M applications with smaller size and relaxed power requirements and also a very optimized use of bandwidth resources (i.e. sharing the same resources among thousands of user terminals) enabling profitable IoT/M2M applications. It will provide the communication link between trains and operation center without any network synchronisation requirements. Each train can transmit whenever and wherever without having to wait for any network information. |
| Main output | It provides an efficient and low cost satcom modem allowing to keep the connectivity in these remote areas where any other land-based communication infrastructure is deployed. It will be integrated in the Use Case 3 as an External Communication Module both within the Onboard L&M Gateway (Train domain) and the Enhanced L&M Gateway (Ontrack domain). |
| BB category | HW component |
| Baseline | Communication protocol coming from ESA project (Iris program) where Indra was leading the definition and design of the new standard (waveform) for ATM communications via satellite. Indra has a prototype (TRL-4) of the GES modem (HUB side) implementing a SIC receiver (Interference canceller). Indra aims to adapt this waveform to be used for M2M applications and develop the remote terminal to on- board on trains. |
| Current TRL | TRL-3. It is justified due to , on one hand, the proposed M2M waveform design was consolidated by mean of SW simulation model (i.e.transmitter and receiver are simulated at bit/sample level), using MATLAB and on the other hand, the receiver component was already implemented in a receiver front-end HW prototype (i.e bread-board) and subsequently validated in a real-time satcom network simulator. |
| Target TRL | TRL-7. Objective: to reach a validated HW prototype (modem) for receiver (hub side) and transmitter (remote side) in an emulated real- time operational environment (without satellite bandwidth leasing). |
Status
mail from Xavier, 17Jul2017
After a deeper analysis of the Building Blocks and the modifications which have been produced these last weeks, we have detected that two of our BBs, the BB26.C “Uninterrupted network interconnection for the WSN on trains” and BB26.J “Ubiquitous IoT/M2M coverage and connectivity via satellite. Satellite technology resources and cost optimization for M2M applications“ are redundant and no longer needed.
- The technology to be developed in these Building Blocks are already covered by BB26.A.
- This BB manage the development of the reference architecture and implementation of the Autonomous Wireless Network including ours, so doesn’t make sense to add also another BB for it.
- Our BB26.C and J have no participants but us, and BB26.A has a more interesting partners’ participation with a more coherent integration between elements of the Autonomous Wireless Network.
We have discussed this with the owner of this BB, and we agreed to participate in this BB to develop this technology, so we will merge our BB26.C and J technical aspects and requirements with them. So we propose to delete the BB26.C and BB26.J.