ST Engineering Annual Report 2020

45 ANNUAL REPORT 2 0 20 / CORPORATE OVERVI EW PERFORMANCE REVI EW SUSTAINABI L ITY CORPORATE GOVERNANCE F INANCIAL REPORT superior, leading-edge ground infrastructure solutions to power connectivity. Though the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the aviation, maritime, and oil and gas sectors, our satellite communications business continued its momentum in advancing seamless connectivity. In the maritime market, we made our foray into the superyacht sector through a partnership with Isotropic Networks, leveraging our iDirect technology. Our solutions were also deployed by Speedcast to meet the rising demand for connectivity onboard cruise ships, as well as by Paratus to provide high-speed connectivity to mining ships in West Africa. We provided our solutions to VIVACOM and Telefónica Business Solutions to enhance their broadcast offerings and network coverage in emerging markets, and our solutions played a key role in a joint effort with our partners to provide rural communities and remote sites in Peru with empowering connectivity. Additionally, our industry-leading satcom architecture was chosen to power O3b mPOWER, SES' next- generation Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) communications system. We continued to push the envelope in seamless connectivity, driving the industry forward through our innovations. We participated in a successful demonstration of high throughput low power VSAT return capabilities on the AMOS-17 satellite, and achieved the world’s first live MF-TDMA demonstration on Telesat's Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite. Our solutions also enabled the successful integration of a commercially available 5G core network into a live satellite network in the SaT5G project, marking a major industry milestone. We unveiled our next-generation MxDMA MRC technology which set a new benchmark for network performance and efficiency, while our iDirect MDM5010 modem broke speed records as the industry’s fastest VSAT modem. We also launched a new IoT Platform-as- a-Service solution to enable cost- effective, satellite-based connectivity for the industrial IoT market. Our geospatial solutions continued to facilitate applications such as homeland security, humanitarian aid and disaster relief, maritime safety and security, as well as land resource management for governments and organisations in the region. We launched GEOEARTH, a one-stop cloud-based geospatial analytics platform that provides immediate access to satellite imagery data and analytics to help businesses derive new insights and accelerate decision-making. Mobility As the only Asian company with a full suite of in-house developed smart rail electronics solutions, we have successfully built a strong track record of over 100 projects in 48 cities across Asia, the Middle East and the U.S. We continued to grow our track record with several key wins in Singapore and the region, including contracts for an Integrated Supervisory Control System and Communications System for the upcoming Jurong Region Line. At the same time, we continued to expand our rail electronics footprint in markets such as China, India and Thailand. As urbanisation continues to drive demand for new transportation management solutions to alleviate congestion, we launched Singapore’s first barrier-free Smart Car Park at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore to make parking more convenient while delivering significant operational and maintenance cost savings. The barrier-free Smart Car Park is paired with our in-house GoParkin mobile app that provides real-time information and directions to available car park lots