22 November 2016

M2M/IoT over Satellite:

Scenarios, Opportunities & Challenges

Dr. Konstantinos LIOLIS

Luxembourg Internet Days 2016

Presentation Scope and Outline

1 SES & SES Techcom Services

2 M2M/IoT Opportunities for SatCom

3 SatCom M2M/IoT Scenarios

4 SatCom M2M/IoT Challenges

5 SES Techcom Services’ Value Proposition

6 Summary

This presentation aims at highlighting the Satellite Communications (SatCom) role in M2M/IoT as well as the

associated scenarios, opportunities and challenges.

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SES & SES Techcom Services

Company Overview

SES: world leading satellite operator and dynamic market leader

• Owns and operates the world’s largest commercial satellite fleet with 65 satellites covering 99% of the globe and world population

• Combining the strengths of GEO wide beam, high throughput beam & MEO satellite capabilities

• Worldwide provider of transmission satellite capacity, related platforms and services

• Listed on NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SESG

• Over 1,230 employees in 21 locations worldwide – HQ in Betzdorf, Luxembourg

• 2015 contract backlog: EUR 7.4 Billion

SES Techcom Services: 100%-owned SES service company, providing to our customers around the world:

• Ground infrastructure and teleport solutions

• Satellite and ground operations

• Managed end-to-end services

• Broadband connectivity

• ePlatforms for health, government & education

• Technical consultancy

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M2M/IoT Opportunities for SatCom

SatCom M2M/IoT: A Growth Market

Source: IEEE Spectrum, October 2016

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M2M/IoT: An Explosion of Connected Devices

• By 2020: at least 20 Billion Internet connected devices worldwide

- 5G will have a profound effect on Internet of Things

• Call for new business models, put tremendous demand on telco

operators and create new opportunities for SatCom

- Terrestrial networks cover only 10% of the world

- Satellite can enable M2M/IoT applications to run on global scale

SatCom Key Advantages for M2M/IoT

• Wide/Ubiquitous coverage

• Lack of communication alternatives

• Multicast/broadcast capabilities

• High reliability

SatCom M2M/IoT Scenarios

SatCom Role in M2M/IoT

Terrestrial IoT local area network over satellite

broadband network

• Satellite terminal providing local area network (WLAN,

WPAN) connectivity to IoT sensors

- E.g., SCADA/M2M, Smart Energy, Smart Home, etc

Satellite backhauling of terrestrial IoT gateways

• Satellite terminal providing connectivity to IoT gateway

acting as local aggregator of IoT sensors

- E.g., LPWAN, SigFox, LoRa, etc

IoT sensors with direct satellite access link

• Direct access to satellite from low-cost low-size battery-

activated IoT sensors

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SatCom M2M/IoT Challenges

Common to All Scenarios

Higher Layer Challenges

• Light-weight M2M/IoT application and transport layer protocols

• Simple network synchronization, low protocol overhead

• Integration of IoT, Cloud and Big Data

• Security

Lower Layer Challenges

• Small, low-cost, highly integrated hardware

• Small, low-cost Tx/Rx phased array antenna

• Low Tx power, high energy efficiency, low-duty cycle

• Random access-based air interfaces: small FWD link, efficient RTN link,

asynchronous, minimum re-transmissions

Key satellite M2M/IoT Game Changer are small low-cost terminals & competitive service fees.

Key Satellite M2M/IoT

Design Drivers:

• Minimize terminal CAPEX

• Minimize OPEX

• Flexibility and Scalability

• Robustness and Reliability

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SES Techcom Services’ Value Proposition

Astra Connect Broadband Service Platform

Astra Connect-enabled Broadband for Enterprise services:

• Broadband access to connect remote branch offices and production facilities with enterprise HQ

• Enterprise connectivity optimized for cloud computing over satellite

• Satellite communication platform for M2M/SCADA industrial and governmental applications

Service Features

• Bi-directional satellite connection

• Flat fee & always–on service

• Symmetric or asymmetric connection with speeds

adjusted to customer’s demand & supported apps

- Download speed up to 20 Mbit/s

- Upload speed up to 2 Mbit/s

• Guaranteed bandwidth

• European coverage

• Connection to the IP backbone

• IPv6 ready

• 2nd level technical support

Equipment

• Enhanced and robust two-way satellite dish – 80 cm

• Interactive iLNB

• Satellite modem: Random Access based technology

Customers

Key Advantages

• Low cost, flexible and easily scalable solution

• High reliability and efficient bandwidth utilization

• Ability to connect remotely located sites

• No infrastructure investment required

• Quick deployment and provisioning

Supported Applications

• Remote measurement systems, assets monitoring & control

• Remote meter reading and monitoring

• Outage, leakage detection and management system

• Power management systems

• Comms with security control devices, remote alarm monitoring

• Traffic lights monitoring and control

• Software upgrades

• Telemetry

Astra Connect has enabled one of our customers connect 5,000 sites across an

entire country with sensors to monitor its renewable energy source production. 7

SES Techcom Services’ Value Proposition

Astra Connect-based Satellite SCADA/M2M Services

Astra Connect satellite terminal providing local area network connectivity to IoT sensors for

SCADA/M2M industrial and governmental applications

• Smart Energy

• Oil & Gas

• Security

• Critical Infrastructure Monitoring & Control

SES Satellite

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SES Techcom Services’ Value Proposition

Astra Connect-based Satellite Backhauling of LoRa IoT Gateways

Astra Connect

terminal

SES Satellite

SES Teleport

No terrestrial connectivity available • E.g., rural/remote areas (e.g., Africa), ship, etc

Source: www.lora-alliance.org

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SES Satellite

SES Teleport

No terrestrial connectivity available

• E.g., rural/remote areas (e.g., Africa), ship, etc

Source: www.sigfox.com

Astra Connect

terminal

SES Techcom Services’ Value Proposition

Astra Connect-based Satellite Backhauling of SigFox IoT Gateways

SES Techcom Services’ Value Proposition

Light-Weight Application & Transport Protocols for Satellite M2M/IoT

R&D&I Project “M2MSAT” (Light-Weight Application and Transport Protocols for Future M2M Applications)

Funding Programme: ESA ARTES 5.1

Kick-Off: October 2016

• Duration: 15 months

Objectives:

• To critically review, propose improvements for, and assess in a satellite network testbed, the prominent light-weight M2M/IoT

application and transport protocols (e.g., MQTT, CoAP, HTTP, XMPP, etc) for future satellite M2M/IoT services

Project Team:

• European Space Agency (ESA): Customer

• SES Techcom Services (LU): Prime

• University of Luxembourg–SnT (LU): SubCo

• Joanneum Research (AT): SubCo

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Summary

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M2M/IoT represent key opportunities and growth market for SatCom

SatCom offers connectivity for the M2M/IoT

Three main scenarios for SatCom role in M2M/IoT:

• Terrestrial IoT local area network over satellite broadband network

• Satellite backhauling of terrestrial IoT gateways

• IoT sensors with direct satellite access link

SatCom M2M/IoT key challenges: small low-cost terminals & competitive service fees

SES Techcom Services is already actively involved in relevant SatCom M2M/IoT activities, ranging

from commercial products and services to R&D&I activities.

Existing broadband satellite networks can be applied

(e.g., Astra Connect)

Thank you

Dr. Konstantinos LIOLIS

Senior Systems Engineer

SES Techcom Services

Château de Betzdorf

L-6815 Betzdorf, Luxembourg

Konstantinos.Liolis@ses.com

T +352 710725 472

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