Iridium Messaging Transport® (IMT) provides customers small to moderate-sized IoT messaging through Iridium CloudConnect and offers industry standard protocols, programming, message topics and Pub/Sub capabilities through a wide range of Iridium Certus™ modules. IMT is the future of IoT for satellite communications.
Key Advantages
Along with IoT, IMT is ideal for data that do not require a persistent connection, such as machine-to-machine, and over-the-top (OTT) applications like email, group communications, weather forecasts, and other transactions.
Transfer
IMT transfers data through closed-carrier networks and dedicated, secure private connections between Iridium and AWS.
Authentication
IMT uses cross-account authentication. A simple script creates the necessary infrastructure for Topic queue sets.
Private Queues
Topic queue set queues reside in the customer’s AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) environment.
Coverage
Leverages Iridium’s truly global network and AWS’s redundant infrastructure and support.
Secure
Uses a dedicated, secure, private connection to directly connect Iridium to AWS.
Easy Upgrade
IMT is a simple server-side shift for customers who already use Iridium SBD with Iridium CloudConnect and allows data ingestion regardless of underlying over-the-air and ground systems technologies and protocols.
Specifications
Message Size
IMT transfers data in packet sizes from 1 to 100,000 bytes, providing the ultimate flexibility to meet application requirements.
Industry Standard Protocols
IMT uses Python – known to programmers around the world – and customers receive data in Simple Queue Service (SQS) in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format.
Topics
IMT sends/receives messages by Topics, with unique settings for priorities, persistence, and queue sizes.
Pub/Sub
IMT’s approach to publish/subscribe messaging serves as the middleware for data transfers as a simple communication methodology.
Iridium Modules
IMT is fully supported on the Iridium Certus™ 9770and Iridium Certus 9704 modules. Please consult your Iridium account manager for specifics.