ForestDrone’s engineers tested the Pro version of the Smart Radio,
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To validate testing, they needed to ensure that their
drones were able to maintain connectivity of at least 57 Kbps or faster speeds at a maximum distance of 3 miles. At that distance, the Smart Radio Pro version has a data rate up to 22 Mbps (and the higher end Smart Radio Xtreme goes up to 65 Mbps at the same distance).
It had been flagged at the time of testing that, due to resource constraints, if integration of the radios proved too challenging, the project would be postponed to the following year. Shortly after receiving the radios, the ForestDrone team reported back the successful testing of the radios citing the ease of integration and the thoroughness of the supporting documentation. They decided to perform a full-scale integration test with additional units to test the desired ground control/antenna mast/multi-vehicle configuration that they would use for commercial operations.
With the overwhelmingly promising outcomes with the new radios, their team was excited about the new possibilities enabled by the extra network overhead.