Satellite Connectivity for Improved Healthcare in Nigeria

The Programme aims and objectives are:

• To use satellite connectivity infrastructure to achieve improvements in healthcare, by providing solutions to overcome connectivity challenges to improve health care at the last mile. Specifically addressing Sustainable Development Goal 3, to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all ages.
• To sustainably improve health service delivery and strengthen Nigeria’s health systems by empowering health workers and enabling better health service data management and utilisation
• To leverage and demonstrate the unique value proposition of satellite communications to catalyse the emergence of a platform that enables innovative health solutions to reach the last mile and achieve scale in Nigeria, creating the foundation for long-term sustainability

Smart Satellite Technology for Sustainable Fishing Practices in Indonesia

The Programme aims and objectives are to:

• Enhance the safety, productivity and food security of Indonesian fishers and their communities by expanding the adoption of Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS).
• Improve the effectiveness of monitoring and enforcement efforts by regulators through technology and process improvements, resulting in a reduction of illegal fishing activities and greater territorial sovereignty.

Reducing the Impact of Natural Disasters by using Satcoms in the Philippines

The project objectives are:

• The capability to rapidly restore communications and increase command and control of recovery operations within 24 hours of occurrence of disaster.
• Measurable improvement to sub-national and local capacities in terms of disaster response.
• standard operating procedures on communications systems among provincial, city and municipal disaster risk reduction and management offices for the purpose of gathering information on disaster areas before, during, and after disasters.
• Reduction of the dependency of sub-national and local governments to National Government assets, specifically emergency telecoms.
• Improvements in survivorship, disease, and hardship.
• Lessening of economic damage through reinstatement of basic facilities as rapidly as possible.

I-SAT Connection: Realising the critical role of mobile satellite in the creation of inclusive digital economies in Kenya

Working with Equity Bank Kenya, Inmarsat will increase connectivity to drive inclusive digital services at over 200 locations across Kenya.

The project will also be used to enhance local economies by providing broadband internet access to the local communities with all the associated benefits this will bring. The Satellite Applications Catapult will be working alongside Inmarsat, connecting UK applications experts to these remote users in order to provide information services designed to grow and enhance these emerging markets. Through this overarching research framework, Inmarsat and the Satellite Applications Catapult, will significantly advance the knowledge base for delivery of successful satellite-enabled services in developing and emerging markets.

VICOMESTRA

This project is a critical step to the introduction of HD media streaming services from mobile terminals in 2015. The solution is proposed to demonstrate dynamic video transmissions using the latest HEVC video codec running on a portable encoder combined with the latest Inmarsat BGAN HDR and GX satellite services.

Demand for broadcast quality media from regions with insufficient terrestrial infrastructure is growing. The new GX network from Inmarsat will offer upload speeds that will offer guaranteed bandwidth up to 5 Mbps from a mobile terminal. In conjunction with this, there is also a launch of a new High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC or H.265) which offers nearly twice the efficiency of the current H264 codec. This demonstration project will show HD dynamic video transmission from remote locations with no terrestrial infrastructure using a Quicklink HEVC custom encoder and GX and BGAN HDR terminals. GNSS is also used for the demonstration as all the media can be geo-tagged.

SURMON

The SURMON Demonstration Project targets airborne geophysical survey and infrastructure monitoring services based on Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA). Equipped with suitable sensors and making use of satellite communication and navigation, operation of the RPA beyond line-of-sight is enabled.

As of today, geophysical survey missions are typically done using smaller manned airplanes equipped with various kinds of sensors, whereas pipeline monitoring is often done using helicopters, cars and people on foot. In both cases, users have a need for safer and less expensive operations. By being able to fly closer to the ground, one could also expect an improvement in the resolution of the survey data. For infrastructure monitoring, the ability to fly a RPA at night, with night-vision cameras, is important for situations related to security.

SatResponse

The frequency and impact of both natural and man-made disasters is increasing resulting in needs for more and better emergency response efforts.

Satellite systems can provide a secure, resilient, always-on infrastructure for dealing with such emergency situations. However cost and availability problems often hamper the effective use of these resources.

The SatResponse study is investigating how new technical, commercial and operational models can be used to more effectively deliver satellite communication bandwidth and other space-based application services (eg for enhanced situational awareness) to Disaster Responders.

NetCaster

Livewire NetCaster allows groups of untrained personnel to contribute to a broadcast or streamed show from an iPhone or iPad. Robust audio interviews are complemented by rich media, including:

Still Images
– High Quality
– Sequences based on available bandwidth
H.264 AVC encoded Live video
H.264 AVC encoded Store & Forward Video
Textual chat
Bi-directional File exchange
Metadata

BEATLES

By focusing on how to optimally create the best user experience for communicating highest quality images (photos and video) over bandwidth-limited communications systems, BEATLES targets key challenges in Mobile Satellite communications.