A global space company, e& and E-Space, focused on bridging Earth and space with the sustainable Low Earth Orbit (LEO) network, announced plans to work together to develop advanced global IoT, Smart-IoT and digital transformation solutions.
The collaboration aims to deliver borderless smart connectivity and digital solutions across land, sea and sky applications. Both parties will focus on the creative development of cloud-native digital and IoT solutions enhanced with edge AI.
By using e&’s terrestrial infrastructure and E-Space’s advanced space system, including its global (LEO) constellation and unique device capabilities, the two organizations will create new business models to elevate IoT and digital transformation agendas of governments and large-scale enterprises worldwide.
Mikhail Gerchuk, Chief Executive Officer, e& international said, “Telecommunications and space technology have a natural synergy, offering enormous opportunities for telco companies to expand their reach and capabilities. From satellite internet to space-based sensors, at e& we see the potential to revolutionise the way we connect, communicate and gather data from space.”
Further, he adds, “With our infrastructure and E-Space’s next-generation space system, optimised with edge AI, we will offer a multi-technology platform enabling our customers to embrace a digital-first lifestyle more efficiently. We are confident that we can leverage our combined expertise to create seamless global digital IoT experiences to help our customers advance their digital transformation plans.”
In addition, the collaboration is expected to facilitate e& customer data to connect directly to private data centers without interference from commercial traffic by using peer-to-peer space-based communications to address security and data protection policies and regulations worldwide.
Both companies will jointly develop IoT and digital solutions based on AI at the edge as well as across the network to enable intelligent decisions and automated actions at scale.
“There are tremendous opportunities in the terrestrial domain that can be amplified with the use of newer generation space systems coupled with edge AI”, said Greg Wyler, Chief Executive Officer, E-Space.
Development of IoT Use Cases
The collaboration will also develop global IoT use cases, which can create potential to new revenue streams in global tracking and agriculture, using an optimized satellite ecosystem. The portfolio for IoT and digital products can further expand to enable products across land, sea and air environments, anywhere and at any time, with speeds ranging from kilobits per second (Kbps) to megabits per second (Mbps).
E-Space intends to provide a sustainable and cost-effective satellite-based system in the digital and IoT ecosystem, with coverage available everywhere to support continuous, global real-time data services. The Company estimates that it can deliver an overall system and terminal cost reduction of more than 90% when compared to second-generation LEO networks, allowing more governments, businesses, communities, and individuals to access the power of space to achieve more on Earth.
