Communication device, in particular small and micro-satellites such as CubeSat, system and associated method

摘要

In particular, the present invention enables Internet of Things (loT) devices to be connected via a superordinate satellite network (30) with a server (80) via an interposed SmartSat (20) and the control of satellites via the cloud (8). It relates in particular to a communication device (10) for operation on satellites (20), hereinafter referred to as SmartSat, in earth orbit, in particular on CubeSats, which has a first interface (12) for communication with a terrestrial device (6), in particular an Internet -of-Things (loT) device, a second interface (14) for communication with a superordinate satellite network (30) and a controller (19) which is set up to establish a connection to a server (80) via the superordinate satellite network ( 30) to receive data from the terrestrial device (6) via the first interface (12) and to transmit them to the server (80) via the second interface (14) and the superordinate satellite network (30).