Satcom solution for epidemiological surveillance, alert and response in developing countries

The TTSat service aims at providing an integrated information system delivering real time data collection and alert from / to all sites in a national territory, including remote sites located in the so-called "white areas" where there is no telecommunication infrastructure. TTSaT is a next generation global solution for epidemiological surveillance, alert and response, designed to fit the operational needs of developing economies and to provide a multi-feature centralized platform that collects data in real-time and produces key indicators that can guide health policies. It combines an existing integrated information system for epidemiological surveillance, alert and response, called "epiSat" with a TTSat satellite service. Targeted users are the UNPFA (United Nations Population Funds) representatives located in Senegal, Guinea and Benin. The TTSat service mainly uses GNSS and satellite telecommunication and will potentially use Earth Observation data to establish epidemiological predictive risk maps in a short future. The use of satellite telecommunication services in the project allows complementing the connectivity network to ensure that health centres in remote and not connected areas can be linked /plugged to the national health information system and with a high availability ratio.