Doodle Labs is pleased to announce the release of Sense, a new feature-set for its multi-band Mesh Rider Radios that addresses the challenges of interference for long-range, mission-critical robotics and connected teams applications for a more resilient datalink.
Dismounted connected teams and advanced robotic systems like drones and uncrewed ground vehicles regularly encounter signal interference in the field that threatens connectivity and hinders performance. This can include interference from WiFi devices in urban areas or active jamming attempts in the field of battle. Lapses in connectivity can interrupt the transmission of critical payload like video or scan data or even command-and-control of a robotic system.
Doodle Labs’ patent-pending Sense technology is engineered to actively monitor in-band interference and automatically switch channels or frequency bands to find the best-performing frequency. This feature-set, when combined with Mesh Rider’s LPI/LPD (Low Probability of Intercept/Low Probability of Detection) waveform, ensures uninterrupted communication and enhances the operational efficiency of these advanced systems in the fields of defense, public safety and commercial industry.
Sense, along with patented multi-band technology, realizes the full potential of packing multiple frequency bands into a single radio. Multiple frequency bands not only facilitate global deployment in areas with differing legal frequency allocation, but now also significantly expands the radio’s ability to avoid interference or jamming by utilizing all available spectrum with multiple frequency bands.
Sense is an advanced paid feature that will be available as a firmware upgrade to all Doodle Labs Mesh Rider Radio customers. Contact the Doodle Labs Technical Sales Team for more details.
How Sense works
With Sense activated, Mesh Rider Radios scan for interference and background noise across all frequency bands. Once the node on the network is deployed into the field (whether it is a UAV, UGV or connected team-member), Sense continually monitors the health of its LPI/LPD datalink signal. If the datalink starts to experience significant interference, Sense automatically shifts to a better-performing channel with the current band or to a different band altogether, maintaining connectivity and optimizing performance during the mission.
Commercial Applications
For commercial customers like drone and UGV OEMs, Sense offers an enhanced ability to operate in densely populated, and RF noisy urban environments.
While it’s been challenging to provide reliable, long-range communications in urban environments in the past, Sense allows commercially-focused platforms to seamlessly avoid interference from the myriad of common WiFi and other electronic devices.
Defense Applications: Battle-tested reliability
Sense is battle-tested in challenging environments in Ukraine, where it’s helping to avoid interference caused by active jamming.
Evolve Dynamics, a UK-based drone manufacturer, integrated the Doodle Labs Mesh Rider Radio into its flagship SKY MANTIS 2 for its resilient connectivity, full data encryption and Sense‘s advanced interference-avoidance. The SKY MANTIS 2 has been thoroughly field-tested in highly-contested airspace in support of Ukrainian defense forces in the face of active Russian jamming attempts.
The government and defense-focused Helix Doodle Labs Mesh Rider Radios were developed with sponsorship by the US Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit for its Blue UAS program. Helix variants are available in a variety of licensed multi-band frequency combinations specifically suited for government use, and its LPI/LPD waveform meets the highest standards of defense and special forces outfits.
About Mesh Rider
Mesh Rider is a powerful patented mesh wireless broadband technology designed for mobile use-cases. Its innovative LPI/LPD waveform provides a reliable, low-latency, high-throughput datalink over long distances.
Mesh Rider Radios are offered in a multiple use-case optimized form-factors and are actively deployed in industrial uncrewed aerial vehicles, ground robots, warehouses and with connected teams in the defense, industrial and public safety sectors.