SCAN RF Projects and Q-KON Partner to Deliver OneWeb Connectivity for African Industry

SCAN RF Projects and satellite connectivity provider Q-KON have formed a strategic partnership to bring Eutelsat OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO) services to mining, energy and industrial customers across southern Africa.

The partnership combines SCAN RF Projects' rugged industrial wireless networks with Q-KON's Twoobii-OneWeb satellite service, enabling remote operations to maintain high-speed connectivity even where terrestrial infrastructure is unavailable or unreliable. The integrated offering is aimed at sectors including mining, oil and gas, industrial automation and agriculture.

The companies say the solution can be deployed as either a primary communications link or as a resilient backup within existing SD-WAN environments. By combining local industrial networks with LEO satellite backhaul, the service is designed to support real-time operational technology (OT), cloud applications, IoT monitoring and secure enterprise connectivity in geographically isolated locations.

With growing demand for hybrid terrestrial-satellite architectures in industrial environments, where reliable communications have become essential for automation, safety and business continuity, low-latency LEO connectivity can also enable remote sites to support bandwidth-intensive applications that have traditionally been difficult to deliver over conventional satellite networks.