SCAN RF Projects, a member of the iOCO Group, and a specialist in industrial communication solutions, has officially announced a strategic partnership with Q-KON, the leading engineering company and provider of Twoobii Smart Satellite Services. The collaboration is set to revolutionise industrial field communications by delivering Eutelsat OneWeb Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite services to heavy industries operating across Southern Africa.
SCAN RF Projects is widely recognised across the subcontinent for building rugged, ground-level wireless networks inside remote open-cast mines, deep-pit operations and heavy industrial complexes. By pairing these local systems with Q-KON’s Twoobii-OneWeb LEO service, the partnership bridges the gap between local field operations and global cloud networks, ensuring that even the deepest and most geographically isolated sites remain continuously online.
The partnership blends SCAN RF Projects’ decades of on-the-ground expertise in deploying mission-critical wireless infrastructure within highly challenging operational environments with Q-KON’s advanced satellite communication architectures. The joint service offering will focus heavily on bringing off-grid, high-speed connectivity to sectors such as Mining, Oil & Gas, Industrial Automation and Agriculture.
“In high-risk industrial and mining environments, uninterrupted communication is critical to both safety and productivity,” said Reyno Eksteen, Business Unit Head at SCAN RF Projects. “Our solutions are engineered to provide robust, dependable connectivity that supports operational efficiency and minimises downtime in even the most demanding conditions. By integrating Q-KON’s Twoobii-OneWeb LEO capabilities into our critical connectivity portfolio, we can now provide our clients with absolute data availability. Whether utilised as a primary circuit or seamlessly paired with existing SD-WAN architectures for secondary failover, this solution guarantees maximum uptime and supports the real-time IT and OT (operational technology) convergence that modern heavy industries demand.”
For SCAN RF Projects’ clients, the addition of Twoobii-OneWeb LEO satellite services delivers highly resilient, low-latency broadband that functions completely independently of vulnerable terrestrial networks. With latency levels dropping below 70 milliseconds, remote sites can seamlessly run real-time applications, execute secure financial transactions and manage intensive cloud-based databases. Furthermore, the high-capacity bandwidth fully supports massive industrial data backhauls, heavy corporate traffic and automated Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring.
“For nearly 40 years, Q-KON has focused on engineering global satellite technologies to fit the precise, nuanced challenges of the African landscape,” said Dr Dawie de Wet, Group CEO of Q-KON. “This partnership with Scan RF Projects is a perfect alignment of expertise. By combining their rugged, ground-level network capabilities with our Twoobii smart satellite architecture, we are removing the infrastructure constraints that have historically held back remote industrial operations. We are giving heavy industry a reliable, independent data backbone that operates right on the technological edge.”
With the formal partnership agreement officially signed and active from June 2026 onwards, both organisations are now working closely to finalise deployment frameworks and service integration timelines for clients across the Southern African region.
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