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Addvalue Technologies Ltd (commonly abbrieviated as Addvalue) is a Singapore company, listed on the Main Board of the Singapore Stock Exchange since Year 2000. Addvalue main wholly-owned subsidiaries includes Addvalue Communications Pte Ltd, Addvalue Innovation Pte Ltd and Addvalue Solutions Pte Ltd. Addvalue is……

History
Addvalue was established in 1994 and the primary business was to provide design and services for wireless consumer comunication products and its customers include major communication companies such as Panasonic, GE Thomson, Microsoft etc.

In 1999, Addvalue expanded its services to include satellite communication products starting with the design of a S-band satellite digital radio receiver for Sirius XM Satellite Radio (formerly known as Sirius Satellite Radio), a US-based company licensed to operate satellite-based digital audio radio service covering the entire USA.

In late 2002, Addvalue was contracted by Inmarsat, a UK satellite operator for the design and supply of a portable BGAN satellite communication terminal called SABRE 1. With the successful commercial launched of SABRE 1 in 2006, Addvalue officially announced its exit from the consumer electronics industry and to focus only on satellite communications industry. Over the next 8 years, over 20 variants of L-band mobile satellite communications terminals have been developed and commercialised to operate under the footprints of two world leading mobile satellite operators, Inmarsat and Thuraya, another world premier MSS operator based in the UAE. Leveraging the proven heritage in satellite communications product development and solutions offerings, Addvalue created new applications where satellite-based communications have definite competitive advantage and has set its sights on a few burgeoning opportunities including an innovative inter-satellite data relay technology.

The inherent problem facing LEO satellites today is that communications with LEO satellites is restricted by limited session and rigid schedules In mid 2012,  Addvalue conceived  the idea of developing a small form-factor mobile satellite communication terminal suitable to be deployed on a small Low Earth Orbit satellite. This innovation aims  to provide real-time and/or on demand data commercial communication services between a LEO satellite and a ground-based control, a much needed commercial service that is not available today.,The innovative solution is to incorporate a inter satellite data relay system (IDRS) in the LEO satellite to provide real time communications via a GEO satellite.Illustration here

With innovation development grant given by OSTIn of Singapore EDB to defray part of the R&D cost, Addvalue engaged NTU to build a small LEO satellite, Velox-II that will carry the Addvalue’s proprietary IDRS terminal to validate the proof of concept. The experimental test commenced after the Velox II was successfully launched on 16 December 2015.