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Broadband for IIoT – Mesh Rider® Technology Overview

Mesh Rider© is an innovative, patented mobile mesh wireless broadband technology developed by Doodle Labs. It focuses on the high-throughput data communication over long distances (up to 100 km) and provides frequency flexibility, enabling operation in licensed and license-free bands.

Mesh Rider - A Mobile Private Wireless OS

Mesh Rider extends the state-of-the-art COFDM/MIMO technology used by the IEEE 802.11 standard and optimizes it to meet the challenges of Industrial IoT and Government applications.
Doodle Labs Smart Radios, built with Mesh Rider OS are carrier grade and deployed in some of the most demanding environments in the world by Fortune 100 companies.
The unique mix of capabilities and features makes Mesh Rider particularly relevant for deploying Industrial-grade private wireless networks for mobile robotics applications, such as drones and unmanned ground vehicles.

 

IIot landscape
 

Private Wireless Landscape

As the world becomes further connected and new applications arise, a diverse set of requirements emerge for wireless connectivity. Many technologies and standards have been developed to fill the needs of different applications and their corresponding requirements (e.g. range, power, speed). No single technology can meet the needs of all use cases.

The chart illustrates the sweet spot for Mesh Rider, relative to other technologies. Indeed, it is capable of deploying high performance private mobile broadband networks that require long-range and high-throughput capabilities, like UAVs, and UGVs.

Best of WiFi and 5G

Mesh Rider has been designed to combine the best of the benefits of 5G and WiFi technologies. Public LTE networks used to be the only possibility for medium to long range (100+ meters) applications. However, because they have been designed to serve many users, cellular networks provide low user speed, low QoS, and high latency to each individual subscriber. Moreover, their high monthly recurring costs lead to high total costs of ownership.

Mesh Rider addresses these pain points by building on top of the robust COFDM/MIMO technology specified in IEEE 802.11. High throughput, low network latency, and high QoS are extended to long distances.

 
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Mesh Rider has been designed to combine the best of the benefits of 5G and WiFi technologies. Public LTE networks used to be the only possibility for medium to long range (100+ meters) applications. However, because they have been designed to serve many users, cellular networks provide low user speed, low QoS, and high latency to each individual subscriber. Moreover, their high monthly recurring costs lead to high total costs of ownership.

Mesh Rider addresses these pain points by building on top of the robust COFDM/MIMO technology specified in IEEE 802.11. High throughput, low network latency, and high QoS are extended to long distances.

 

The Power of Ubiquitos WiFi
 

The Power of Ubiquitos WiFi

Over the past two decades, large investments have been made into developing IEEE 802.11 (WiFi) technology. Today the WiFi ecosystem is estimated to exceed three trillion dollars. As a result of such massive investments and pervasive use, WiFi is the most advanced and high-performance wireless technology.

Doodle Labs has been a major player in long-range WiFi for over 20 years. Based on this expertise, Mesh Rider begins with 802.11 as a foundation and adapts/extends it for more demanding Government and Industrial IoT applications. The Mesh Rider waveform optimizes numerous physical and MAC layer parameters to achieve interference-resistant, reliable high speed wireless communication in many different frequency bands.

Mobile Mesh

Self-forming and self-healing, multi-hop relay, multi-frequency mesh capabilities improve the network robustness, extend the range.

C&C + Video

Advanced traffic prioritization of Ultra Reliable Low Latency Channel (URLLC) for all Command and Control traffic and concurrent multicast video streaming of 4k video on the same link.

Interference Avoidance

Spectrum Scan monitors in-band interference and provides the capability to switch channels. The advanced filtration and frequency-band shifting techniques are designed to minimize noise and block out-of-band signals.

Mobile Mesh

The hybrid SDR technology enables a large family of form factor compatible models in 100 MHz to 6 GHz frequency bands. Simply swap out the radio based on the end-customer or country requirements.

Encryption

Encryption is a vital requirement to protect the data from the snoopers. The Mesh Rider’s built-in 256-bit AES encryption protects over the air traffic. The embedded encryption engine is certified with Federal NIST standard: FIPS 140-3.

Integration
Extensible Features

The Mesh Rider is built on top of a feature rich OpenWrt Linux OS. Users can install their own software to further extend and customize the functionality.

Mesh Rider – A Mobile OS

A cornerstone of Mesh Rider© OS is the advanced networking capabilities closely integrated with the RF waveform. The Mesh Rider has been developed to enable a large variety of Private Wireless use cases as depicted in this gallery.

 

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Mobile Mesh Network (MANET)

The Mesh Rider helps deploy self-forming, self-healing mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET) by employing any-node to any-node capabilities to instantaneously route data via the best available traffic path. These automatic multiple pathways builds network redundancy. As the number of nodes increases, the network becomes more resilient by having more alternate pathways and eliminates any single point of failure.

The chart illustrates the sweet spot for Mesh Rider, relative to other technologies. Indeed, it is capable of deploying high performance private mobile broadband networks that require long-range and high-throughput capabilities, like UAVs, and UGVs.

Network Use Case Scenarios
Concurrent C&C + Video

PHY aware Mesh Rider OS applies optimized parameters to achieve Ultra Reliable Low Latency (URLLC) for Command and Control data while streaming 4K video on the same RF channel.

Multi-hop Relay

The multi-hop relay capability of Mesh Rider allows coverage in the NLOS environment.

Interference Avoidance

Mesh Rider’s automatic band switch-over capabilities to build highly reliable Private Wireless Networks

Network Redundancy

Mesh Rider builds dual band redundancy to realize highly reliable networks.

Network Capacity

Mesh Rider bonds dual Smart Radios to increase the network capacity.

Fleet/Swarming

Mesh Rider allows control of swarming drones or a fleet of robots.

About Doodle Labs

For over 20 years, Doodle Labs has been at the forefront of developing long-range broadband communication technologies used for deploying private wireless networks. Our products have been used 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.

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