A Novel Cloud Architecture for Internet of Space Things (IoST)

Raghvendra Kumar,Chakchai So-In,Ishaani Priyadarshini,Biswaranjan Bhola

doi:10.1109/access.2022.3144137

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Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) has influenced technology in numerous ways. What started as a network of physical devices communicating over the Internet grew tremendously sophisticated by incorporating billions of devices and defining specific IoT domains. IoT has found its subdomains in many fields such as medicine, healthcare, robotics, etc., and several domains are yet to incorporate IoT. One of the rapidly advancing technologies in space research. Space research has been growing tremendously over the last few decades, with studies ranging across exoplanet detection, colonization, space communication, and the possibility of life forms across other bodies. In this paper, we suggest a novel architecture of the Internet of Space Things (IoST) compatible with the cloud for the increasingly growing and futuristic field of space technology. The article proposes a detailed physical and logical architecture considering the public network, cloud provider, enterprise network, ground station, and interspace communication. The study will benefit researchers and scientists working in IoT, space technologies, colonization, robot-assisted surgery, space farming, etc.

Highlights

The visions of machines communicating with one another have been there since the early 1980s, but the Internet of Things (IoT) came to light only in the early 2000s
IoT incorporates any device equipped with an on/off switch connected to the Internet
This paper proposes a novel architecture of the Internet of Space Things (IoST)

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INTRODUCTION

The visions of machines communicating with one another have been there since the early 1980s, but the Internet of Things (IoT) came to light only in the early 2000s. As these different objects are connected across the globe, they are issued digital intelligence by introducing sensors to them. The solutions are specific to each company’s missions They are not integrated into a complete NASA communication infrastructure solution, where the nodes in space can communicate with each other and consumers on Earth over the internet. Not as it succeeded as initially expected, the Commercial Iridium satellite communications constellation proved that communication and networking between spacecraft were possible.

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