SATis5

SATis5 publishes white paper

Adam Kapovits — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:19:32 +0000

Project SATis5 has just published a white paper entitled Satellite is 5G, available for immediate download.

SATis5 demonstrates at the 10th anniversary FUSECO Forum of Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin

Adam Kapovits — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:48:03 +0000

Satis5 demonstrated successfully at the 10th anniversary FUSECO Forum in Berlin, on 7 and 8 November both broadband multimedia and narrowband Internet of Things (IoT) applications using so called backhaul satellite connectivity. The demonstration relied on iDirect equipment this time and satellite connectivity was provided by SES from their hub in Betzdorf. Both iDirect and SES are partners in SATis5.

The network diagram of the testbed used for the demonstration

Björn Riemer from Fraunhofer FOKUS shows the video acquisition application, whilst on the large screen on the left hand side the narrowband IoT sensor data are shown .

Adam Kapovits, Eurescom GmbH and project leader of SATis5 (far left) talks to Marc Hofmann from DLR (far right), whilst Thomas Schlichter from Frauhofer IIS, subcontractor in SATis5 is in the background at left. (DLR is representing Germany in ESA and as such grants the funding for the German partners in SATis5.)

SATis5 showcases at the IEEE 5G World Forum in Dresden

Adam Kapovits — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 09:50:55 +0000

The Satis5 showcase at the IEEE 5G World Forum in Dresden, between 30th September and 2nd October 2019 focused on the internet of things (IoT) use case. SATis5 showed the nomadic node, a van provided by the Universität der Bundeswehr München equipped with a satellite dish and all necessary ancillaries, in which Fraunhofer FOKUS‘s LTE eNB is integrated using a satellite modem provided by Newtec. The nomadic node provided access to two remote sites, one in Erlangen and one in Ilmenau using satellite connectivity provided by SES. Both the Erlangen and Ilmenau sites were hosted by Fraunhofer IIS, and provided 4G/5G Nodes with IoT capabilities, a NB-IoT modem and NB-IoT basestation. The set-up was used to access sensor data from agricultural sensors, such as temperature and moisture sensors. The anchor point of the network was the satellite hub station hosted by the Universität der Bundeswehr München at their Neubiberg facility, integrating also Newtec equipment.

The network architecture of the SATis5 demo at Dresden

The van with the satellite dish on top and the basestation inside in front of the congress hall

The spectrum of the received and transmit signal on the laptop screeen in the bottom right and the Erlangen site video and sensor data on the top left screen, as well as the basestation with antennae below

Space-enabled Internet of Things shown in Berlin

Sibylle Kolb — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 08:56:07 +0000

21 November 2018

ESA’s first live demonstration of 5G by satellite began last week, as an ingenious set-up of European space and ground nodes showed a crowd in Berlin how it can help connect devices in the much-lauded ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT).

Space-enabled Internet of Things at Berlin 5G Week

Sibylle Kolb — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:48:06 +0000

Satellite-on-the-Move van from the Munich Spacecom Labs

November 19, 2018: ESA’s first live over-the-air demonstration of 5G enabled by satellite began on November 15th , as an ingenious set-up of European space and ground nodes showed a crowd in Berlin how it can help connect devices in the much-lauded ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT).
The purpose of the exercise was to prove that space can deploy 5G services anywhere on Earth, no matter how isolated, congested or on-the-move the application.
The demonstration was performed at the 9th FOKUS FUSECO Forum at Fraunhofer FOKUS using SATis5, an experimental testbed developed under partnership between ESA and a European consortium primed by Eurescom, with Fraunhofer-FOKUS, Fraunhofer-IIS, SES, Newtec GmbH, VT iDirect, Berlin Technische Universität, and Bundeswehr University Munich.

The Satellite-on-the-Move van from the Munich Spacecom Labs (Bundeswehr University Munich) acted as a portable satcom node, using current cellular 3GPP commercial links as a proof of concept of how satellite connectivity can be integrated with the 5G architecture.
Over the course of the next year, the testbed will simulate different scenarios in which satellites can deliver 5G, such as broadband connectivity in remote areas, massive machine-to-machine/IoT, communications on the move and offsetting high traffic.
The SATis5 demonstration will continue running experiments until the end of 2019, after which the testbed will remain operational and it could be made available to other ESA-funded demonstrations of satellite-enabled 5G services.
More Information: https://artes.esa.int/projects/satis5

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