ESA’s Smart-Connect project, as part of ESA’s Civil Security from Space (CSS) programme, is expanding its capabilities in meeting the challenges faced when terrestrial telecommunications channels are disrupted during crises events, by bringing in an additional three companies to the consortium.
The core system components currently under development for the project range from Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled Earth Observation (EO)-Data compression for minimal bandwidth requirements, Application Programming Interface (API)-Gateways framework to provide first responders with user-friendly tools, specialised libraries and compression tests to make more efficient use of performance capacity, georeferenced data services that brings together data into one place for web users, and satcom real-time video streaming framework for drone data.
These components are addressing the bottleneck in networks bandwidth, limiting big-data transmission, particularly in times when terrestrial networks are damaged or destroyed during disaster events. Smart-Connect is building a system called conneXstream Middleware, which will bridge reliability, coverage and bandwidth needs for field staff and first responders to service providers and decision-makers in disaster risk management centres.
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