Global supply chains and the complex logistics operations that support them are the backbone of today’s economy. Responding quickly to disruptions is critical to minimising costs and delays. Better still, predict and prevent them.

Black Sky offers BlackSky Spectra®, a proactive Early Warning System (EWS) for managing supply chains and logistics infrastructure such as ports, by combining space-based monitoring with AI-powered predictive analytics. To achieve this, they have developed and combined Spectra™ AI and & Spectra™ Tasking. These technologies fuse data from BlackSky’s own high-resolution Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation and other third-party sensors to develop critical insights and analytics for decision makers in real time.

By leveraging this secure, low-latency tasking to deliver high-resolution, time-varying imagery and analysis, decision makers can draw on space assets to inform the full spectrum of strategic planning through tactical missions worldwide.

Benefits:

• High-frequency monitoring of the world’s most important strategic locations, economic assets and events
• Actionable intelligence from capture to delivery in less than 90 minutes, up to 15 times a day
• Easily accessible platform for all users, optimised for agility
• No geospatial expertise required for the application user

Internet access on Europe’s highways is pretty poor. This doesn’t just annoy passengers, it also hampers mobility applications that rely on connectivity, preventing European carmakers from realising the full potential of automotive digitalisation.

Stellar is a deep-tech company that aims to revolutionise connectivity in mobility through hybrid telecommunications. The company’s ambition is to bring seamless connectivity to all vehicles, enabling reliable internet access at all times and on all roads. Stellar has therefore developed its Car-as-a-Service software, STEER, which enables seamless switching between cellular, Wi-Fi and satellite networks- while ensuring maximum service availability, packet loss free switching and aggregation of multiple networks for optimal throughput. STEER is designed to meet automotive-grade requirements for safety, reliability and cybersecurity, and can be seamlessly integrated into new car ranges. It can also be retrofitted to existing car models or even trains through a hardware module.

Benefits:

• Reliable and secure Internet access in moving vehicles such as cars and trains
• Seamless switching between cellular, Wi-Fi and satellite networks
• Integration into new models and retrofitting to existing car and train models

Device connectivity is the holy grail of our digital age: By allowing physical devices to connect and communicate with each other, we have been able to increase economic output. Examples include the Internet, satellite communications or, more recently, the Internet of Things (IoT). But all existing networks share some fundamental shortcomings: They are often proprietary, expensive, power-hungry, unscalable and, worst of all, lacking in coverage.

The Hubble Network aims to change that. Hubble is building a constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites to enable a global, low-cost, low-power network that can scale to billions of devices – using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). Using their patented innovative satellite antenna design, Hubble have demonstrated that they can connect any Bluetooth device directly to satellites in LEO – without any additional infrastructure. This level of connectivity has the potential to revolutionise many different industries, including agriculture, logistics, mobility and defence.

Benefits:

• Enables data exchange directly with satellites by connecting any Bluetooth device directly to space
• Enables an unprecedented level of connectivity while using existing commercial-of-the-shelf Bluetooth chips
• Easy integration with any existing BLE chip – no additional infrastructure required