SIMOC Live: A Multi-Habitat Sensor Array Deployment at the World’s Biggest Analog Mission by Franco Carbognani, Ezio Melotti, Kai Staats, and Shantanusinh Parmar; ICES 2026, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico; presented by Kai Staats.
“The World’s Biggest Analog 2025 campaign was the largest synchronized analog mission ever attempted. Building upon the Scalable, Interactive Model of an Off-World Community (SIMOC) Live platform introduced to ICES in 2025, this paper reports on the deployment of standardized environmental sensor arrays within participating habitats and the development of a unified data visualization infrastructure for the World’s Biggest Analog Mission Control Center in Vienna. Eight habitats, scattered across four continents, received one or more SIMOC Live sensor arrays built on Raspberry Pi hardware and modular Adafruit environmental sensors measuring environmental levels for CO₂, temperature, humidity, pressure and VOCs … results demonstrate reliable end-to-end telemetry performances which resulted in effective situational awareness for Mission Control Center operators. This work aims to establish a benchmark for the feasibility of a scalable, multi-habitat ECLSS-monitoring sensor array network.”
