SCAN RF Projects has announced a strategic partnership with Q-KON to deliver Eutelsat OneWeb low Earth orbit satellite services to heavy industries operating across Southern Africa. The disclosure lands as another reminder that industrial connectivity buyers are still stitching satellite into operational networks where terrestrial links are too fragile or too far away to carry the load on their own.
SCAN RF Projects is an integrator of industrial communication solutions and part of iOCO Group. Q-KON is an engineering company and provider of Twoobii Smart Satellite Services. The joint offering is aimed at off-grid, high-speed connectivity for mining, oil and gas, industrial automation, and agriculture, which makes the target market plain enough: sites that need data links where the nearest fibre route is either unavailable or not dependable.
The service is pitched at latency below 70 milliseconds and is described as able to support real-time applications, secure financial transactions, intensive cloud-based databases, massive industrial data backhauls, heavy corporate traffic, and automated Internet of Things monitoring. Reyno Eksteen, Business Unit Head at SCAN RF Projects, said the company can now provide clients with absolute data availability by integrating Q-KON’s Twoobii-OneWeb LEO capabilities, and said the solution can be used as a primary circuit or paired with existing SD-WAN architectures for secondary failover.
Operational fit for remote industrial sites
The pairing of SCAN RF Projects’ field network work with Q-KON’s satellite service is built around the same operational problem: remote sites need stable links that survive harsh terrain, distance, and patchy terrestrial infrastructure. The claim set ties that need to mining, oil and gas, industrial automation, and agriculture, with the service positioned for off-grid environments.
The latency figure below 70 milliseconds is the only hard performance number disclosed, and it is the number that will matter most to buyers assessing whether the link can sit inside live operational workflows rather than just act as a backup pipe.
How the service is being framed
Reyno Eksteen’s description puts the emphasis on data availability and on using the satellite link either as a primary circuit or as a secondary failover path within existing SD-WAN setups. That is a fairly standard channel story for LEO: the value proposition is not a new application category, but a way to make connectivity less dependent on a single terrestrial route.
Q-KON’s role in the deal is to supply the Twoobii-OneWeb side of the stack, while SCAN RF Projects brings the industrial network integration. The article does not disclose pricing, rollout timing, or contract length.
Read for industrial connectivity buyers
For mining, oil and gas, and other remote-site connectivity teams, the relevant signal is that the partnership is explicitly aimed at off-grid operations and is being marketed as suitable for both primary and failover use. That makes it easier to place against existing SD-WAN and site-backhaul designs without waiting for a broader product roadmap.
The limit here is also clear: the claim set gives a latency target and a use case list, but no pricing or deployment schedule. Buyers can judge the intended fit, not the commercial economics.