Next Meeting
Date: Monday, 8 May 2017, 4:30PM to 5:30PM
Location:
Revelle Conference Room (IGPP 4th Floor)
Low Cost Data Links for Ocean Research by Fleet Space
Technologies
Dr Andrew Barton
Director of Launch and US Operations
http://www.fleet.space/
email:
andrew.barton at fleet.space
Fleet Space Technologies is developing a new satellite
constellation for affordable narrowband data communications to
remote areas all over the globe. Fleet’s proprietary
technologies will include the satellites in space, rugged and
cheap user terminals that interface to the sensors and devices
in the field, as well as cloud based infrastructure to get the
data back to the users. Fleet is currently in the early
prototyping phase for the user terminals, and aims to design the
system to be compatible with the largest possible range of use
cases across the industrial IoT user spectrum.
Fleet is conducting a pilot program later this year to
demonstrate the essential features of its service to users
across a number of industries having assets in remote areas not
well-covered by terrestrial data links.
In this talk, Andrew Barton will talk about Fleet’s plans for
its satellite data service as well as the pilot program. This
talk will be a chance for researchers in the oceanography
community to learn about the expected capabilities of the Fleet
communications system as well to convey their specific needs and
technical requirements.
Andrew Barton is the Director of Launch and US Operations for
Fleet, and is charge of identifying pilot programs with US
partners. Prior to joining Fleet, Andrew worked at the XPRIZE
Foundation as director of Technical Operations for the Google
Lunar XPRIZE, and earlier he worked at the European Space Agency
in the Netherlands as a specialist on spacecraft and launcher
structures. Andrew holds a Ph.D and bachelors degrees in
aerospace engineering from the University of Sydney and a
Masters degree in Space Studies from the International Space
University.
Fleet is an Australian start-up that recently closed a series A
venture capital investment round to develop these technologies.
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