Hello Hardware and Software Pilots and Hackers.
I was pretty impressed by the recent news of the Parrot Anafi AI drone as well as the new DJI Mavic 3 drone supporting flight over 4G. Despite hardware and software limitations including latency, they have made this work.
I always thought that this would be quite straightforward to attach a 4G modem to a WiFi capable drone to be able to pilot it via 4G.
I'm sure the above is easier said than done, however a properly configured lightweight 4G Modem acting as a bridge, connecting to a VPN could just fool the drone into thinking that a smartphone connected to 4g is within WiFi range.
Please don't shoot down this idea(no pun intended). There are many caveats before such a solution can be commercially and feasiblysound(legal line of sight limitations in the US, latency issues, network coverage, software limitations, and I'm sure many more not listed).
All I'm asking for is some advice in the proper kind network setup needed, so that we can start testing some out-of-the-box hardware for a proof of concept.
Does anyone have any experience or any hardware that they can use to test this PoC?
I was pretty impressed by the recent news of the Parrot Anafi AI drone as well as the new DJI Mavic 3 drone supporting flight over 4G. Despite hardware and software limitations including latency, they have made this work.
I always thought that this would be quite straightforward to attach a 4G modem to a WiFi capable drone to be able to pilot it via 4G.
I'm sure the above is easier said than done, however a properly configured lightweight 4G Modem acting as a bridge, connecting to a VPN could just fool the drone into thinking that a smartphone connected to 4g is within WiFi range.
Please don't shoot down this idea(no pun intended). There are many caveats before such a solution can be commercially and feasiblysound(legal line of sight limitations in the US, latency issues, network coverage, software limitations, and I'm sure many more not listed).
All I'm asking for is some advice in the proper kind network setup needed, so that we can start testing some out-of-the-box hardware for a proof of concept.
Does anyone have any experience or any hardware that they can use to test this PoC?