What is GISS?

3.5 Control of shipping of sea and river fleets, road and rail transport and container transport

The market for this type of service is very wide and its annual development and growth is predicted, including due to the increasing volume of traffic from the Chinese and Indian markets in the direction of Europe and back.

Currently, the leader in this area is ORBCOMM, which has 2.4 million consumers (subscribers) around the globe. More than 18 million Automatic User Identification System (AIS) messages are received and processed every day from approximately 150,000 different vessels. To ensure the collection and delivery of such message traffic, ORBCOMM maintains an orbital constellation of 30 LEO satellites and ground gateway stations for dropping and broadcasting messages (see slide in Figure 3.13).

With the expected development of the market and an increase in the number of controlled mobile platforms to 500,000, the problems of quality satisfaction of the demand for this type of services are increasing.

The creation of the proposed GISS can radically improve the situation in this market. The unique capabilities of GISS to provide IoT data collection services at any time from anywhere in the world, coupled with its own space transport IP network, will allow serving any number of any types of transport platforms in the L-band (see slide in Fig. 3.14). A wide area is opening up for the development of a new of shipboard, automobile and railway terminal equipment, which, in addition to AIS (IoT) functions, can provide all satellite personal communication services.

The new telecommunication equipment GISS for passenger sea, river and oil tankers with a Wi-Fi interface will provide Internet access, voice and video communication for crew members and passengers from their gadgets.

Undoubtedly, even the ORBCOMM company would rather switch to services from GISS than deal with the costs of maintaining for these purposes its space constellation of 30 LEO satellites and its own gateway stations scattered across the continents.