Inmarsat Keen on Offering High-Tech Services to India
NEW DELHI: Global satellite services provider Inmarsat is keen on offering India high-tech services of regular monitoring of climate, power grids and water levels in reservoirs that will enable real-time exchange of information without human intervention.
“Because of the scale of population, India would be increasingly interested in machine-to-machine communication and environment monitoring,” Todd McDonell, Vice-President of Global Government at Inmarsat, told PTI.
Machine-to-machine technology enables exchange of information and data without human intervention.
In India, satellite-based communication can be used for real time monitoring of environment, pollution levels, operations of smart power grids, checking water levels in reservoirs, he said.
“We are doing it at a number of places in the world already and have well built technology to provide reliable results in India,” he said.
For M2M technology, customers are now moving from wireless mobile networks to satellite communication networks due to reliability and scalability, he added.
“We had some government customers in the world who used 3G networks for environment monitoring primarily and satellite networks as back up.
“But as 3G networks are getting congested they thought its unreliable and moved to satellite networks as primary and 3G networks as back up,” McDonell said.
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