Levering aviation and maritime data for coverage analysis with Intelsat

Satellite-enabled connectivity while sailing the sees or navigating our skies has become indispensable. Intelsat provides such connectivity for airlines and cruise ship operators throughout the world. Ensuring great coverage is not easy, when airlines or shipping companies have to adapt their voyages due to constantly changing external constraints. The satellite operator needs to stay on top of where its customers operate to ensure sufficient coverage at all times and to adapt where needed.

But how to perform this analysis at the global scale?

Intelsat chose xyzt.ai to perform the analysis in a data-driven way. Using global maritime vessel tracking data (AIS) and global aviation flight data (ADS-B), Intelsat obtains a full spatio-temporal view on the operations of its customers. By visualizing and analyzing this data, both spatially and temporally, in combination with the coverage patterns of their satellites, Intelsat can analyze where and when coverage issues might arise.

We have bought gigabytes of AIS and ADS-B data which thanks to xyzt.ai, we can finally leverage and put in the hands of our analysts

By using xyzt.ai, Intelsat can finally leverage the big data vessel and flight tracking data sets for their analysis, and put the data in the hands of the many analysts within the organization. They can now upload their satellite coverage footprints and combine them with the hundreds of millions of GPS tracks of their customers' flights and journeys.