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Iridium's SBD Direct-IP communications

Iridium's Direct-IP protocol of Short Burst Data communication system.

This library understands and handles the Direct-IP protocol, thus providing the core support for applications such as the one listed below.

Applications

  • directip-client: Compose and transmit MT messages, i.e. to remote station. For instance, it could be used to send a message to an underwater glider (a scientific autonomous robot).

  • directip-dump: Parse and extract components, such as the IMEI or message-id, from a Direct-IP binary transmission. This is an equivalent to ncdump but for Direct-IP messages.

  • directip-storage: A library that provides multiple backends to store Direct-IP messages. It can be used, for instance, to archive MT messages transmitted or MO messages received.

Minimum supported Rust version

Currently the minimum supported Rust version is 1.70.0

License

Licensed under either of

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

Alternatives

  • sbd-rs: Handles the Mobile-Originated side of the SBD protocol and provides a server to listen for incoming MO messages . It was visionary to use Rust in 2015! (@gadomski, 2015)
  • sbd_lib: I believe it contains some elements of the sbd-rs crate, extending to MT messages while using serde to serialize and deserialize. Some interesting uses of the language beyond the basics. (@a1ien, 2018)
  • sbd.py This is a Python solution with a lot of information on the protocol and concepts. Very useful independent of the language you will use. (@cxed, 2016)