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Astrocast Joins IMC to Spread Word of Bidirectional Satellite IoT
Astrocast's partners include Airbus, Telefonica, and the European Space Agency. The company has a fully operational LEO, satellite constellation and plans to keep expanding its network until 2024. Using the L-band spectrum, Astrocast targets usage in maritime, oil & gas, agriculture, land transport and environmental applications, where ubiquitous coverage is required. For its part, the IMC boasts wide membership in these areas, with 30% directly involved in managing supply chains.
"We welcome Astrocast to the IoT M2M Council and look forward to hearing more about this new connectivity technology," says Romil Bahl , President and CEO of KORE and the IMC Chairman, "LEO satellites are quickly becoming a very important extension of terrestrial networks, providing much-needed coverage to many rural or remote communities who have struggled with coverage in the past."
The IMC is the largest association dedicated to the global IoT sector – with over 25,000 IoT enterprise users, product makers/designers, and apps developers that buy IoT solutions as members. Board companies include Aeris, Airgain, Astrocast, AVSystem, beamLive, BICS, Blues Wireless, Digi International, floLIVE, Fibocom, Ground Control, Gurtam, iBasis, Ignion, Incognito, Keyfactor, KORE, Losant, Microsoft, MultiTech, Novotech, Pelion, Pod Group, Quectel, RevX Systems, Somos, Taoglas, Tata Communications, Telit, Utimaco, and Vodafone. Visit www.iotm2mcouncil.org .