Video: DEWA launches nanosatellite to aid network planning and maintenance in UAE

Video: DEWA launches nanosatellite to aid network planning and maintenance in UAE

The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) on Thursday launched the DEWA-SAT 1 nanosatellite in collaboration with NanoAvionics. It therefore became the world’s first utility to use a nanosatellite to improve the maintenance and planning of electricity and water networks, according to . DEWA-SAT 1 was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex (SLC-40) in Florida. The nanosatellite was designed and developed at DEWA’s R&D Centre in the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, managing director and CEO of DEWA, noted that DEWA will launch another U6 nanosatellite later this year to promote its ability to effectively monitor, manage, and maintain its electricity and water networks. Al Tayer added that DEWA-SAT 1 uses LoRa IoT communication technology, which is a new wireless protocol designed for long-range communications that consumes less energy, to expand the coverage of the existing terrestrial communication network. Using satellite communications, IoT, and AI is expected to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of DEWA’s operations and support digitising energy networks, water distribution and transmission networks. It also enables the integration of IoT data using DEWA’s private cloud. The Space-D programme was launched by Sheikh Mohammed bin