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Skylo partners with Sony Semiconductor Israel for 5G NB-IoT over Satellite
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IANS | 18 Aug, 2020
Skylo, maker of the world's most affordable and ubiquitous network that
connects any machine or sensor, on Tuesday announced a partnership with
Sony Semiconductor Israel (Sony, formerly known as Altair
Semiconductor).
With this partnership, Skylo and Sony will be the
first to develop and deploy cellular IoT chipsets (branded 'Altair')
that can connect via geostationary satellites and that leverage the
standardised, 5G-ready, NB-IoT protocol, according to a statement.
The
partnership also makes significant contributions to 3GPP future
specifications, which will help standardise and accelerate the adoption
of NB-IoT over satellite.
In addition, this innovative new use of
Sony's Altair cellular IoT chipsets dramatically reduces the cost for
IoT applications to connect via traditional satellite networks.
Until the launch of this solution, satellite connectivity was cost-prohibitive and required custom-built protocols.
Skylo,
which was founded in late 2017 by researchers including Andrew Kalman,
is building an efficient, global NB-IoT network over satellite for
millions of presently unconnected devices, machines, and sensors.
Sony
Semiconductor Israel is a leading provider of cellular IoT chipsets
and, through this partnership, both parties have extended existing
cellular IoT chipsets to communicate directly over Skylo's hosted
satellite network.
"For industries with assets deployed all over
the globe - including marine vessels, vehicles, and industrial equipment
- having access to a ubiquitous fabric of carrier-grade, affordable IoT
connectivity that is enabled by Sony's Altair cellular IoT chipsets is a
game changer," said Andrew Nuttall, Skylo's co-founder and CTO.
"This
partnership ensures our ability to continue to quickly scale the
manufacturing and deployment of connector Skylo Hubs to our customers
around the world," he added.
"We are excited to work with Skylo
and launch an entirely new IoT category for industrial machines," said
Dima Feldman, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Sony
Semiconductor Israel.
"We're impressed by the innovative way
that Skylo has extended our chip functionality over satellites to expand
the connectivity reach to the most remote locations and we look forward
to helping Skylo bring billions of sensors online for the first time.
"In
addition, the Altair field proven, ultra-low-power and ultra-small
chipset solutions are ideal for the type of data exchange for industrial
use cases," added Feldman.
This new geostationary satellite
connectivity is a technological breakthrough for Skylo. Any customer who
is building IoT into their remote businesses can use familiar
technologies like Bluetooth and WiFi in order to connect existing
sensors to Skylo Hub.
Skylo is launching commercially this year
over South Asia and can be accessed using the Skylo Hub, which is a
portable satellite NB-IoT antenna terminal.
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