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WEIGHTLESS in SPACE
for ultra resilient remote control & monitoring
Our mission is to get your critical messages from origin to destination, in time, every time.
WEIGHTLESS is new class of global machine to machine telecommunication
build on Open Standards
WEIGHTLESS.SPACE and it's WEIGHTLESS.CLOUD connection management system (CMS) add extraordinary levels of resilience, security and dependability to the OpenWEIGHTLESS low power, terrestrial, private wireless network offering.
WEIGHTLESS.SPACE & CLOUD extend robust Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and defence quality Tactical Data Link (TDL) communication capabilities skyward. Our non-terrestrial platform support includes low altitude tethered balloons and aerial drones (UAVs), High Attitude Pseudo Satellites (HAPS) in the stratosphere and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites, thus extending beyond line of sight connectivity outward to global coverage.
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While all WEIGHTLESS protocols target low (Sub-1GHz) radio spectrum, for it's naturally robust transmission characteristics, WEIGHTLESS protocols can also be implemented in higher frequency bands, from L to Ku & Ka, in order to offer satellites direct to device (D2D) communication alongside their broadband service.
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Today's WEIGHTLESS protocols build on the low power & scalability characteristics of OpenWEIGHTLESS to add ultra high RESILIENCE, best in class SECURITY atop Software Defined Radio (SDR) meeting the new Open Radio Area Network (O-RAN) standard built over a modern modular software architecture.
Unique values of the WEIGHTLESS protocol are the ability to select quality of service (QoS) appropriate to the use-case. Security settings can be scaled from none (public), to AES256 (standard), to blockchain, to quantum resistant (road mapped). Security can thus be selected on application risk, impact of failure and/or cost constraint of each connected device.
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While regularly scheduled messages might reassuringly say:
"OK" -or- "30 mph" or "21C" or "60%" for humidity
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WEIGHTLESS also handles urgent ad-hoc messages when sent, like:
"Alarm! fire" -or- "Collision!" -or- "STOP" -or- "GoTo Waypoint = 123.789"
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Communicating mission critical messages in time is the focus of our endeavours with all WEIGHTLESS protocol implementations.
Mission critical communications are those that have serious life or cost consequences when the don't get through in time or when their integrity is affected.
for example:
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Updating waypoints on autonomous vehicles, aircraft & vessels when message interception or spoofing has dire consequences.
​Commanding satellites to de-orbit satellites when normal communications have been lost.
Other well suited applications include:
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Reading smart water meters (in-ground) as WEIGHTLESS equipped satellites pass over urban areas.
asset & animal tracking
reporting events on remote borders, fire or natural events
WEIGHTLESS.SPACE payloads when installed in satellites can serve 100% of the global surface.
By contrast telecoms IoT protocols (NB-IoT & LTE-M), serve less than 15% of the landmass area being centric to populated / urban regions.
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With WEIGHTLESS.SPACE technology you can reliably connect with your 'things' anywhere on earth via satellite services or aerial platforms.
So ... connect to your 'things' on land, in the air, on oceans ... anywhere!
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This makes WEIGHTLESS.SPACE a prime choice for remote COMMAND & CONTROL (C2) of critical devices, assets & infrastructure at global distances while OpenWEIGHTLESS addresses the need for low cost long range IoT 'things' connectivity on the ground.
