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VSAT communications enabling survey USV operations

beyond line of sight

Inmartech 2018

The Future is Here!

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Increasingly Tight Budgets

Do More withLess

RepetitiveMissions

More Time to Analyze Data

USV´s for Ocean research: a huge opportunity

Research in Dangerous Locations

Geographically Dangerous

Current paradigm USV’s paradigm



why should USV´s be on researchers

radar?

Cargo Heavy Duty Medium Self-Contained Portable

AUV, ROV LaunchSite

Surveillance

Towed Array

Science (Limited)

AUV, ROV LaunchSite

Surveillance

Science

Seafloor-to-SpaceNetwork

Surveillance

Science

SurveillanceShipping

BLOS

Long Range

Fuel or Battery

12 hours – 7 days

BLOS or LOS

Fuel or Battery

Up to 30 days

BLOS or LOS

Battery

Indefinite Range

BLOS

Solar / Wind / Wave

Very Short Range

LOS

Battery

Current Classes of USVs



COMMS

POWER

RANGE

AP

PLI

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Some Missions Already Using USVsHeavy Duty

Medium

Self-Contained

Portable

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Hurdles for the Industry to Breakthrough

• Compliance with IMO regulationsSafety of life, Certification, Collision avoidance, Prevention of Pollution (MARPOL)

• Civil liability. Salvage, Claims, pollution, wreck removalWho is the Master in charge?

• Domestic Shipping Legislation

Regulatory

Technical

• Truly autonomous (no man in the loop)

• Robust communications for safety compliance

• Cybersecurity is a must

• Collision avoidance

• Object detection/identification

• Sensor standardization



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Advancing Technologies

IoT

Data Analytics

Cloud Services

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Future of Control

Virtual Machines

3DVisualization

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In the current state of broadband communications, mobile wireless terrestrial communications could be an option for USVs near shore, while satellite represents

the only consistent option for data communications at high seas

High-Bandwidth everywhere: SATCOM



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Large and extra large BWs

Flexibility

Service continuity

Security

24/7 worldwide support Worldwide coverage

Connectivity Demands for USVs

Bidirectional



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Expected Needs of USVs

FLEXIBLE DEMAND

Uplink Dominate Supported

As Needed Suspension Periods

GLOBAL COVERAGE

Hard to Reach Locations



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Six Hubs strategically located in Spain, Germany, US, Hawaiiand Australia with global NMS

Teleport redundancy, internal redundancy, UPS andredundant satellites

Redundant data-centres (AMS and London) ensuring an SLAof greater than 99.7% as demanded by USVs

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Inmarsat FX and Iridium Certus with improved supportabilitytools (remote monitoring and control)

Worldwide MPLS network with Gigabit throughputcapabilities

Private APN (Access Point Name) for 3G/4G communicationswhere available

Integrated Communications Solution provided with a singleuser interface/point of contact allows for a streamlined andhigh quality experience

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• 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

• 25 highly specialized engineers (3 shifts), and complemented by the travelling onsite technicians team.

• NOC staff certified for the VSAT platform (iDirect), antenna systems (Cobham, Intellian, Orbit), Iridium, Inmarsat and IT systems (Cisco, Xiplink etc.)

• Currently operating +32 Ku band and 6 C band VSAT networks spread over +18 Satellites

24/7 Service: Network Operation Centre

NOC Engineers + Field Engineers = 24/7 Full Support



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Monitoring & control tools

User segmentation and network management

Plexus Controller



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Complications with Current VSAT Solutions

Heavy Energy IntensiveMany Moving Parts



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Flat Panel ArraysMesh Networks

Low Earth Orbit

Mid-Term Long-TermToday

High Throughput Satellites

60 Centimeters Antennas

USV

A Road Map to the Future



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Experience in 60 Centimeters

• > 70 Vessels • Providing High Bandwidths

Shore to ship 30 MbpsShip to shore 10 Mbps

• Near global coverage (incl. Antarctica)

Research Perfected

USVs

Proven Experience



Research Vessels

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Our Technological Future

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Strategic agreement in place from 2014 In Sept 2016 September Phasor demonstrated the transmission of live

HD video over the Intelsat 903 satellite from its test site in Essex, UK to our teleport.

Following a test a bigger Rx antenna in one of our cruise vessels



Modem evolution

Store and forward LEO

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Unmanned Surface Vehicle revolution is on the horizon and already arriving

VSAT services are mature enough to serve in demanding operationalenvironments such as USVs

Recent technology evolutions enable consistent forward and returnthroughputs unthinkable some years ago

Current VSAT services are already enabling USV based survey missions

Conclusions



Thank You!

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Jorge Calvin

Senior Account [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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