Innovative Satellite Antennas for Emerging M2M/IoT applications

适用于新兴 M2M/IoT 应用的创新卫星天线

• 批准号: 521431-2018
• 负责人: Hum, Sean
• 金额: $ 10.97万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Strategic Projects - Group
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=697870
• 关键词: Innovative; Satellite; Antennas; Emerging; M2M

Satellite technology is a key enabler for supporting emerging machine-to-machine (M2M) communication as well as Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Recent surveys estimate that worldwide wireless traffic will increase sevenfold between 2016 and 2021. IoT and M2M devices are the fastest growing category with 20-30 billion connected nodes expected by 2020. Providing global connectivity to such a large number of devices will be very challenging with terrestrial backhaul infrastructure due to its intrinsic costs. Satellite-based networks offer a cost-effective and scalable alternative, providing global wireless service ideally-suited to IoT and M2M needs. Nevertheless, the decreasing size of M2M/IoT satellites combined with their non-geostationary orbits and recent migration to higher (mm-wave) operating frequencies imposes major challenges on the design of both ground and space segment antennas. M2M/IoT applications require low-power, low-cost, beam-steerable gateway terminals on the ground, and deployable, high-gain multi-frequency antennas on board satellites. This project will address these requirements by developing innovative antenna solutions in both segments, as well as cutting-edge numerical analysis techniques enabling the rapid design of such antennas. These solutions are based on exploiting advances in electromagnetic surfaces, reconfigurable antennas, and computationally efficient techniques pioneered by members of our team. In conjunction with Thales, a global leader in aerospace, transportation and defence solutions, we will create antenna technologies urgently needed to achieve the widespread adoption of satellite-enabled M2M/IoT systems. In turn, this will open up many exciting applications in remote telematics, connected transportation systems, smart agriculture, intelligent shipping, remote monitoring and others important for large countries with sparse terrestrial network infrastructure outside of urban centres, such as Canada.

卫星技术是支持新兴机器对机器 (M2M) 通信以及物联网 (IoT) 应用的关键推动因素。最近的调查估计，2016 年至 2021 年间，全球无线流量将增加七倍。物联网和 M2M 设备是增长最快的类别，预计到 2020 年将有 20-300 亿个连接节点。为如此大量的设备提供全球连接将非常具有挑战性。地面回程基础设施由于其固有成本。基于卫星的网络提供了一种经济高效且可扩展的替代方案，可提供非常适合 IoT 和 M2M 需求的全球无线服务。然而，M2M/IoT 卫星尺寸的减小，加上其非对地静止轨道以及最近向更高（毫米波）工作频率的迁移，给地面和空间段天线的设计带来了重大挑战。 M2M/IoT 应用需要地面上的低功耗、低成本、波束可控网关终端，以及卫星上的可部署高增益多频天线。该项目将通过开发这两个领域的创新天线解决方案以及能够快速设计此类天线的尖端数值分析技术来满足这些要求。这些解决方案基于利用我们团队成员首创的电磁表面、可重构天线和高效计算技术方面的进步。我们将与航空航天、运输和国防解决方案领域的全球领导者泰雷兹合作，打造实现卫星 M2M/物联网系统广泛采用所急需的天线技术。反过来，这将在远程信息处理、互联交通系统、智能农业、智能航运、远程监控等领域开辟许多令人兴奋的应用，这些应用对于加拿大等城市中心以外地面网络基础设施稀疏的大国来说非常重要。