Satellite IoT services are helping prevent major forest fires and reducing their impact on the environment, according to French IoT operator Kinéis. The French Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion has selected Kinéis’ satellite IoT services for use in future forest fire detection systems.

With a constellation of 25 nanosatellites and 19 ground remote stations, Kinéis locates and connects objects through terminals, wherever they may be on the planet. Combining NewSpace’s technological innovation with the IoT ensures narrowband, low-consumption, simple and reliable global connectivity.

With their very low power consumption, the terminals have an autonomy of several years, sending messages only when necessary.

Benefits of Kinéis connectivity include: early fire detection; reliable and low-consumption large-scale protection; frequencies (400 Mhz) enabling penetration through canopies; better risk prevention for Emergency Management in the event of natural disasters; better assessment of the situation.