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The Current Landscape of Satellite IoT | HEAD Aerospace's Oscar Delgad0 & Raghu Das | Internet of Things

IoT For All Podcast · 5 Jan 2023 · 23m

What this episode covers

Oscar Delgado of HEAD Aerospace and Raghu Das of Aniara Spacecom discuss the current landscape of satellite IoT, highlighting the shift from expensive legacy constellations to affordable small satellite (CubeSat) networks like Skywalker. They explain the technical and business distinctions between satellite IoT (narrowband, low data) and traditional satcom (broadband), emphasizing that satellite connectivity is ideal for remote assets like agriculture and utilities where terrestrial coverage is absent. The guests stress that successful adoption requires a strong business case, standardization via 3GPP, and hybrid connectivity solutions to integrate satellite with terrestrial networks.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
HEAD Aerospace, Aniara Spacecom, SpaceX, Iridium, Globalstar, ICO
Products
SkyWalker, Starlink
Also
3GPP

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