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VIRTUALISATION Iridium initiates alliance to foster global satellite location services
VIRTUALISATION Iridium initiates alliance to foster global satellite location services | Iridium initiates alliance to foster global satellite location services |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Friday, 18 September 2009 | |
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Iridium is also launching a strategic initiative to focus its internal engineering, R&D, product certification, activations, marketing and channel sales support resources "to assist service partners in bringing these personal safety products and services to market." The alliance aims to provide a forum for addressing issues affecting the suppliers and users of these safety devices. It also will "seek to foster the development and deployment of bi-directional satellite data solutions meeting the requirements of the growing population of government and business organisations using portable tracking devices, as well as the public-safety community." "The ProTECTS Alliance will advocate for industry standards based on two-way satellite data links," said Patrick Shay, vice president and general manager of Iridium's data division. "Soldiers in the field, disaster relief workers, pipeline inspectors in remote oil fields, helicopter pilots fighting forest fires, scientific expeditions in the Antarctic and sailors on the high seas are all relying on satellite location technology as a critical safety lifeline, and the interactive bi-directional data link helps ensure their distress messages are heard and that help reaches them." He added: "Eleven Iridium service providers in 30 countries offer two-way short-burst data (SBD) solutions for personal locating, tracking and messaging through Iridium satellites. SBD represents a very efficient use of our satellite capacity for tracking and monitoring everything from vehicles to construction machines to individuals in remote areas." CONTINUED
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