Portfolio Supports The Company’s Upcoming Inflight Broadband Service

SmartSky Networks reports that it has surpassed 200 granted patents. This portfolio supports the company’s inflight broadband service, launching later this year.

“SmartSky set out to transform aviation through innovations in communications technology and services,” said SmartSky CEO David Helfgott. “Our expanding patent portfolio represents the latest advances in a host of sophisticated tech needed to deliver on the promise of the truly connected aircraft, from our cutting-edge radio and antenna hardware to our sophisticated next-generation network and new aviation-related digital services.”

SmartSky’s patents cover areas crucial to providing office-grade inflight communications and related services, including air-to-ground specific features of network architecture, operation in the 2.4 GHz unlicensed band, beamforming, spectrum re-use, seamless handoff, and signal processing. In the digital services arena, patents cover topics including an aerospace commerce exchange (Skytelligence), uses of blockchain relevant to aviation, dynamic 5-dimensional aircraft trajectory management and more.

SmartSky Networks is rolling out its air-to-ground network in 2021. The network takes advantage of patented spectrum reuse, advanced beamforming technologies and 60 MHz of spectrum for enhanced connectivity. SmartSky’s network reportedly enables an “office in the sky” experience with data transmissions both to and from the aircraft.

FMI: www.SmartSkyNetworks.com