Drone people: seeing all this drone warfare stuff in Ukraine has me wondering how difficult/cheap is it to setup automated routines on a drone and have it return to base to charge itself for the next ...
Have taken a few steps along that road myself :)
Spectrum licensing means data is a bottleneck.
Cellular data is expensive and vulnerable to dead spots.
Wifi's limited range means full FPV drone control is too short-range.
LoRa has the range, but not the bandwidth for realtime video, so the sensor data needs considerable processing to identify what its seeing.
Either onboard for realtime use, or stored and returned to base for post-processing. Leaning towards the former, but that means (very small) AIs
Spectrum licensing means data is a bottleneck.
Cellular data is expensive and vulnerable to dead spots.
Wifi's limited range means full FPV drone control is too short-range.
LoRa has the range, but not the bandwidth for realtime video, so the sensor data needs considerable processing to identify what its seeing.
Either onboard for realtime use, or stored and returned to base for post-processing. Leaning towards the former, but that means (very small) AIs