{"id":56580,"date":"2021-09-29T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/totum-claims-first-indoor-direct-to-satellite-iot-connection\/"},"modified":"2021-09-29T01:35:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T17:35:00","slug":"totum-claims-first-indoor-direct-to-satellite-iot-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/totum-claims-first-indoor-direct-to-satellite-iot-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Totum Claims First Indoor, Direct-to-Satellite IoT Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Totum<\/strong> reports it has demonstrated a bidirectional communication between a fully integrated system-on-a-chip and a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite. The company claims this is the first operation of indoor direct-to-satellite Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Totum\u2019s satellite communicated with a terrestrial endpoint located in a San Diego office building, demonstrating a miniature omnidirectional antenna. The company describes its technology as \u201ca constellation of LEO nanosatellites and optimized device silicon. A revolutionary wireless waveform provides worldwide coverage, indoor connectivity, and an embedded footprint the size of a postage stamp.\u201d <strong>Orca Systems<\/strong> is its silicon partner.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the company says it has advance orders for 2 million devices for its IoT service through partnerships with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), solution providers, and value-added resellers.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve effectively created a whole new category for IoT connectivity,\u201d says CCO Dave Gell. \u201cCombining the global coverage of satellite with an indoor reach comparable to cellular puts us in a unique position to solve some of the thorniest problems in IoT today. Critically, we\u2019re able to do this with a total cost of ownership (TCO) that beats cellular.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Totum reports it has demonstrated a bidirectional communication between a fully integrated system-on-a-chip and a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite. The company claims this is the first operation of indoor direct-to-satellite Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity.&nbsp; Totum\u2019s satellite communicated with a terrestrial endpoint located in a San Diego office building, demonstrating a miniature omnidirectional antenna. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}