HYDERABAD: Spacetech startup Dhruva Space on Friday said it has beefed up its collaboration with French satellite operator and global IoT connectivity provider Kinéis to roll out the latter’s IoT connectivity in India and launch its IoT payload on Dhruva’s P-30 satellite that is expected to be launched in late 2025.
As part of this partnership, Dhruva Space will provide Kinéis IoT services in India along with developing new and innovative applications which can be supported by Kinéis’ 25-satellite constellation.The collaboration also includes a joint satellite mission to augment India’s space capacity.
The partnership will enable Dhruva Space and Kinéis to offer cost-effective, advanced and reliable IoT solutions as well as innovate to drive technological advancement and develop new applications and services tailored to the Indian market. The full-scale global commercial service availability of Kinéis IoT will commence after the full deployment of Kinéis’ constellation in early 2025, and will be supported by development and large-scale manufacturing for end-user terminals by Dhruva Space for India, the Hyderabad-based startup said.
Dhruva Space CEO Sanjay Nekkanti said by enhancing its existing partnership with Kinéis, the company was poised to deliver innovative IoT services that will drive digital transformation and open new opportunities for businesses and communities in India.
Kinéis CEO Alexandre Tisserant said the technological and commercial partnership with Dhruva Space was a concrete expression of the relationship of trust established with Kinéis and “reflects the joint drive to provide high-performance spatial IoT services for the Indian market”.
He said the Kinéis connectivity applications will include environment, agriculture, monitoring of energy networks, commercial maritime activities and commercial services will bring considerable benefits to Indian public and private players.
Pointing out that the mission of the Kinéis IoT constellation is to connect any object anywhere in the world, including black points, and transmit useful low data to users in near real time, Dhruva Space said the French player operates for optimisation in areas that represent major challenges for mankind, its activities and its environment such as prevention of natural risks (detection of forest fires, floods, drought, pollution), agriculture, traceability of wild and farmed animals, monitoring of infrastructures and energy networks, monitoring of transport and logistics, monitoring of commercial and scientific maritime activities.
Dhruva Space will provide these services in India and significant efforts will be put towards experimentation and development of new and innovative applications that can be enabled by the Kinéis satellite network.
Later this year, Dhruva Space is gearing up to launch its first hosted payload mission – LEAP-1 – onboard its P-30 nanosatellite platform, which is a modular and scalable satellite bus offering both hosted and dedicated mission capabilities. The platform is scalable for earth observations constellations, secure communications, and strategic use-cases, Dhruva Space said.
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