Geneva, Switzerland, November 15, 2021: Well-known global cybersecurity, AI, Blockchain and Internet of Things (IoT) company WISeKey International Holding Ltd has announced that it will start offering low-power secured IoT connectivity to companies and institutions through a constellation of ‘picosatellites’, designed and developed in partnership with FOSSA Systems, a leading aerospace company focused on developing picosatellites for IoT communications.
This constellation deployment will commence in early 2022 with the launch of WISeSat-1 and WISeSat-2, the first of many satellites WISeKey plans to deploy in the following years in collaboration with FOSSA Systems.
The two picosatellites have successfully passed all Environmental Testing Campaigns and are soon to be on their way to Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA), where they will be launched with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 vehicle, announced WISeKey in a press release.
The WISeSat constellation collects and sends data from terrestrial sensors, increasing knowledge of the status of assets and offering essential information to improve processes and optimize production. These include predicting maintenance of equipment and machinery, creating smart homes with connected appliances, or improving critical communication between devices such as autonomous vehicles.
These communications between sensors, gateways, ground stations and satellites require trust. That is why, WISeSat uses VaultIC, a complete cryptographic solution that uses algorithms ensuring all Certificate-based Authentication (PKI), Authorization, Encryption, and Integrity requirements.
“WISeKey intends to offer this technology to its IoT clients in a SaaS model. This technology would allow both remote and redundant urban IoT communications for companies seeking to securely connect their assets and at the same time have the ability of covering large and unserved geographic areas such as maritime, deserts, mountains, at affordable prices,” said Carlos Moreira, CEO of WISeKey, in the press release.
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