Reliability Analysis of an IoT Satellite Facility for Remote Monitoring and Asset Tracking within Marine Environments

Internet of Things (IoT) satellite infrastructures have been recently gaining momentum in an ample set of application scenarios owing to the global availability of connectivity. Therefore, it is expectable that monitoring and asset tracking systems will leverage on such technology more and more in the future, especially for those needing to be deployed in harsh and hardly reachable environments like the marine one. To this end, this paper proposes a system architecture for an interface enabling external sensors and microcontrollers to send data by making use of satellite links. Moreover, its reliability analysis is accomplished by means of simulations by taking into account its usage in offshore application scenarios.