Paramount Advanced Technologies
The challenge
Paramount Advanced Technologies wanted to evaluate a long-range air-to-ground datalink using a compact radio and a defined antenna configuration.
The solution
A 2 W S-band radio maintained a 116 km link during the aircraft test, with measured throughput reported alongside the test setup.
Aerospace company Paramount Advanced Technologies achieved a 116-kilometer data link in a test flight using Doodle Labs’ Mesh Rider Radio in a mobile, aerial environment.
An off-the-shelf S-Band Mesh Rider Radio, RM-2250-2H-XS was used, which operates between 2.2 – 2.3 GHz and has 2 Watts (33 dBm) of output power. The radios were coupled with only a small 3 dBi antenna on the aircraft and a 23 dBi directional antenna on the ground station. The Mesh Rider Radios were able to provide 300 Kbps throughput at 116 Km distance as a small Cessna aircraft carried the flight test box out into the horizon.
Paramount Advanced Technologies is a subsidiary of Paramount Group, a global aerospace and technology company founded in South Africa.
“We had designed the Mesh Rider Radio to be capable of very long-distance communication and this is a very important field validation,” said Ashish Parikh, VP of Business Development at Doodle Labs. “Kudos are certainly due to the Paramount team for their system design and skill in utilizing the Mesh Rider Radio effectively.
Evangelos Petropoulos
GM of Autonomous Systems at Paramount.
“We’re excited about integrating the Mesh Rider Radio into our systems as it provides the best price and performance we’ve encountered in a radio. The Doodle Labs team has been a pleasure to work with.”
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Doodle Labs
Doodle Labs is a global leader in long-range broadband communication used by the Industrial Internet of Things. Our products have been deployed by Fortune 100 companies in the most demanding environments on earth. Doodle Labs’ design philosophy is focused on achieving best-in-class performance while requiring minimal integration effort, thereby allowing customers to go to market faster with better performing products at a lower overall cost.
Paramount Advanced Technologies
Paramount Advanced Technologies is a subsidiary of Paramount Group, a global aerospace and technology business founded in South Africa. It is a leader in defense and security innovation and is a trusted partner to sovereign governments across the globe. Please visit www.paramountgroup.com for more information.