Mobile connectivity provider Kymeta has conducted a successful pilot of its hybrid, one-source connectivity platform on vehicles owned by Peruvian interprovincial bus line Tepsa. The trial saw Kymeta and its partners Intelsat, Cubic Telecom and Cradlepoint work with Airbus to create SmartBus a project undertaken with the support of the World Bank and Peru’s Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC). The ultimate aim was to gather data on road safety and other statistics to improve Peru’s transportation while connecting people in difficult geographical areas of the country.
During the trial, Tepsa’s buses were outfitted with Kymeta satellite terminals that leveraged satellite capacity from Intelsat, mobile coverage from Cubic Telecom and a software-defined wireless WAN solution from Cradlepoint. This enabled information to be gathered and transmitted in real time across a 742 km route through urban and rural parts of Peru. The project will not only collect information about the state of the road network between Lima and several cities at the edge of the jungle, it will also enable communications in rural areas that are easily isolated during natural disasters, said Kymeta.
Source: https://www.telecompaper.com/news/kymeta-brings-hybrid-connectivity-to-peruvian-buses--1283309
