World’s first LTE-enabled quadricopter takes off

ruth.lileg
September 20, 2012
IN: Mobile networks
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This blog post is by Gerald Reddig from the Nokia Siemens Networks Mobile Broadband team.

Nokia Siemens Networks‘ Smart Lab in Seoul, South Korea, recently demonstrated a high flying proof of concept of LTE latency and performance. The team integrated an LTE USB dongle and modified firmware into an augmented reality quadricopter. Remote control of the device and video communication were transmitted over LTE.

The Smart Labs team used an iPad app to guide the quadricopter and stream real-time video from its onboard camera. As this test showed, LTE technology is ideally suited to support remote control flight. Thanks to the bandwidth and low latency of LTE, the video quality was excellent and navigation was smooth and seamless.

Needless to say, this is awesome.

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