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SATELLITE MODULE · IRIDIUM Where no network reaches, the satellite does.

You know least about the asset that is furthest away. And it is exactly the one you cannot go and look at.

Satellite telemetry is the Lynx module for remote assets with no coverage, over the Iridium satellite network. The field unit reading enters the platform as any other measurement —with its series, its charts and its alarms— and a specific reading can be requested from the screen to a station on the other side of the world.

SBD messaging · global coverage · manual request

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What it solves Assets that matter, where there is no network at all

A gauging station at the headwater of a river, a tank in the middle of a field, a buoy, an isolated solar array, a measuring point high in the mountains. With no fibre, no mobile and no radio, the usual alternative is to send someone to read it, or to go without the data.

Nobody in the middle From the field unit to the time series

The unit transmits over the Iridium constellation, which covers the entire surface of the planet, poles and oceans included. The message leaves the unit, the Iridium gateway delivers it to Lynx over DirectIP, and there it is decoded and stored as one more platform measurement.

  1. field unit
  2. SBD message over satellite
  3. Iridium gateway
  4. DirectIP delivery
  5. Lynx
  6. series + real time + alert

A hydrological installation of four stations —rain gauge and level sensor on dataloggers transmitting over satellite— has been in production with this module for years. In one month of service it received over 9,000 messages.

Why the unit transmits The decision to transmit is taken by the unit in the field

Every message states why it was sent, and the colour coding of the list separates what the unit itself flagged as an alarm from what arrived unconfirmed.

  • Scheduled transmission

    The periodic report from the unit, alarm or no alarm. It also tells you the station is still alive.

  • Rise in the magnitude

    The reading climbs more than programmed within the time window configured in the unit.

  • Fall in the magnitude

    A drop also warrants an alert: in a watercourse, flow below the minimum matters as much as a flood.

  • Value out of range

    The reading leaves the band the unit has programmed, above or below.

  • Episode continuation

    The unit keeps transmitting while the episode lasts, without repeating the initial alert.

  • Manual request

    The answer to a specific reading requested from the module screen.

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Today those thresholds live in the head of whoever went out to program the unit, and the last reading from that station is as old as the last trip out there.

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What is going on there One click, the full state of a measuring point

Modem identifier, coordinates, how many messages it has sent in the period, a breakdown by event type and the table of all its magnitudes with the date and value of the last reading of each.

  • Identified by the modem IMEIEach unit enters the platform by the IMEI of its satellite modem, and each magnitude by the tag travelling in the message. There is no lookup table for someone to maintain by hand.
  • The breakdown tells you if there is an episodeThe messages of the period split by the reason that triggered them. A split loaded with continuations is a station that has been in an episode for days; one with scheduled transmissions only, a quiet station.
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Seven days, no trip Every value of every message is a point on a series

The chart opens from the event itself and the evolution reads off it, with shortcuts for 6 and 12 hours, one day, three days and a week. The one on screen is a week of river level rebuilt from the satellite messages alone.

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  • In the station time zone

    Times are shown in the time zone of the measuring point, not that of whoever is looking at the screen. A rainfall episode reads with the local time of the river.

  • A trend sparkline on every event

    Each row of the list carries the trend of its magnitude, to see the shape of the episode without opening the chart.

  • The same charts as everywhere else

    It is the Lynx chart, not a separate viewer: same periods, same downloads and same behaviour as on any other series in the platform.

Real time and requests The event arrives without reloading, and the station can be asked

When a unit transmits, the event appears on screen with its alert and already resolved to the station name. And the flow is not inbound only: pick the station and the magnitude, and a satellite message goes out with the command its firmware understands. That is the difference between waiting for the next scheduled transmission and knowing now how a point you are worried about is doing.

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  • Real time can be switched off

    With the switch off the list does not move and only the count of new messages waiting is shown. It exists so you do not lose what you were reading in the middle of a rainfall episode.

  • The cost is stated before sending

    Every satellite message is paid for, and the interface says so on the screen itself before sending, instead of hiding it.

  • Audited, and with a dry-run mode

    Every request is recorded with a snapshot of how the station and the data type were configured when it was made, so that months later it is known what was asked and with what parameters. The full flow can be exercised without spending a message, for training or to validate a deployment.

Fit within the platform It is Lynx data, not a silo with a screen of its own

Once inside, the satellite reading enters Analytics, the charts, the reports and the alarm engine like any other measurement.

  • One more measurement

    Same dashboards, same charts, same reports and same alarms as a reading arriving over Modbus or MQTT.

  • Same login, same permissions

    Access to the module is controlled by role, just like the rest of the platform.

  • Vendor agnostic

    What gets decoded is the satellite message, not the proprietary protocol of one particular equipment brand.

  • Combinable

    An installation can have some of its points on satellite and some on a conventional network, and see them together.

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Your assets out of coverage, inside the platform

We look at which assets you have beyond the reach of any network and prepare a demo with the event screen, the series from one station and a manual request in test mode.

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Or write to us directly at support.dt@dominion-global.com

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