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Astrocast (fka Else)

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Astrocast, formerly known as Else, is a leading global nanosatellite IoT network operator founded in 2014. They offer a cost-effective, bidirectional, and comprehensive Satellite IoT Service to industries such as Maritime, Agriculture & Livestock, Environmental & Utilities, Land Transport, Mining, Oil & Gas, and other IoT industrial applications. Their state-of-the-art nanosatellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) provide reliable connectivity with optimized hardware, communication protocol, and network for low-energy operation. Astrocast's technology includes a proprietary low-power L-band chipset integrated into the Astronode S module, which enables bidirectional communication, over-the-air updates, and multilevel AES 256-bit encryption. They also offer a Customer Web Portal for data access and near real-time usage reporting.

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Technical geography: Global Navigation Satellite Systems

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Global Navigation Satellite Systems

A satellite navigation or satnav system is a system that uses satellites to provide autonomous geopositioning. A satellite navigation system with global coverage is termed global navigation satellite system (GNSS). , four global systems are operational: the United States' Global Positioning System (GPS), Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, and the European Union's Galileo.

Embedded systems

An embedded system is a computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electronic system. It is embedded as part of a complete device often including electrical or electronic hardware and mechanical parts. Because an embedded system typically controls physical operations of the machine that it is embedded within, it often has real-time computing constraints. Embedded systems control many devices in common use.

Technical geography

Technical geography is the branch of geography that involves using, studying, and creating tools to obtain, analyze, interpret, understand, and communicate spatial information. The other branches, most commonly limited to human geography and physical geography, can usually apply the concepts and techniques of technical geography. However, the methods and theory are distinct, and a technical geographer may be more concerned with the technological and theoretical concepts than the nature of the data.

Computer architecture

In computer science, computer architecture is a description of the structure of a computer system made from component parts. It can sometimes be a high-level description that ignores details of the implementation. At a more detailed level, the description may include the instruction set architecture design, microarchitecture design, logic design, and implementation. The first documented computer architecture was in the correspondence between Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, describing the analytical engine.

Computer engineering

Computer engineering (CoE or CpE) is a branch of electronic engineering and computer science that integrates several fields of computer science and electronic engineering required to develop computer hardware and software. Computer engineers require training in electronic engineering, computer science, hardware-software integration, software design, and software engineering. It uses the techniques and principles of electrical engineering and computer science, and can encompass areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, computer networks, computer architecture and operating systems.

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Pierre-André Farine

Pierre-André Farine received the Doctoral and Engineering Degrees in Microtechnology from University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, respectively in 1984 and 1978, and the Engineering in Microtechnology from ETS Le Locle in 1974. He was working 17 years for the Swiss watch industries (Swatch Group), including developments for high-tech products, such as pager watches, watches including integrated sensors such as pressure, compass, altimeter and temperature sensors for Tissot. He was also involved in prototypes developments for watches including GPS and cellular GSM phones. Since 8 years, he is Professor in Electronics and Signal Processing at the Institute of Microtechnology IMT, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Full professor at EPFL since January 1st, 2009, he works in the field of low-power integrated products for portable devices, including microelectronics for wireless telecommunications, UWB and GNSS systems. He is Head of the Electronics and Signal Processing Laboratory ESPLAB of the EPFL IMT-NE. His laboratory works also for video and audio compression algorithms and their implementation in low power integrated circuits.

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Global Navigation Satellite Systems

Embedded systems

Technical geography

Computer architecture

Computer engineering

Astrocast (fka Else)

Graph Chatbot

Microstrip patch antennas with broad beamwidth

Design of an intake and a thruster for an atmosphere-breathing electric propulsion system

Biomechanics at the workplace under hypogravity conditions