Ground Station Networking

MEOS Connect - Ground Stations Networking Made Easy
Problems Adressed
Masking the complexity and implementation of control systems is critical for providing interface flexibility and a consistent Monitoring and Control architecture. The individual system components must be accessible for commanding and component status retrieval, through a unified, well defined interface. In addition flexible mechanisms allowing efficient access to system configuration, historical status, events, alarms and scheduled activities are needed.

Operational Modes
The primary mode of operation is to have MEOS Connect reside locally on each physical system node hosting the sub-systems. In this mode it is accessed directly from the central control system or operator MMI, with no intermediate links. This is suitable for ground station infrastructures having few physical nodes.

In system architectures with a larger number of nodes, centralized access to all subsystems may yield an unnecessarily complex architecture. The MEOS Connect concept allows MEOS Connect instances to be inserted as intermediate links, creating a single access point to sets of nodes. E.g. one MEOS Connect box per acquisition site. The resulting monitoring and control hierarchy inherently allows virtually limitless system scalability and flexibility. The databases hosted by central nodes of the hierarchy are automatically populated and synchronised with those at lower levels.