{"id":209188,"date":"2017-05-04T11:32:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T09:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=209188"},"modified":"2017-05-04T11:34:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T09:34:14","slug":"flying-drones-on-lte-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/209188-flying-drones-on-lte-networks.html","title":{"rendered":"Flying drones on LTE networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qualcomm.com\/news\/onq\/2017\/05\/03\/qualcomm-technologies-releases-lte-drone-trial-results\"><strong>Qualcomm engineers have tested<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0unmanned aircraft systems (drones) on commercial 4G LTE networks, with positive results.<\/p>\n<p>The engineers tested coverage, signal strength, throughput, latency, and mobility under various scenarios on the networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results support the viability of 4G LTE commercial mobile networks for drones operating beyond visual line of sight at 400 feet above ground level and below,\u201d said Qualcomm.<\/p>\n<p>During the trial, approximately 1,000 flights were performed.<\/p>\n<p>The trial demonstrated that LTE networks can support safe drone operation in real-world environments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur findings showed that existing commercial cellular networks can provide coverage to drones at low altitudes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur test drones also showed seamless handovers between different base stations during flights.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/204504-flying-taxi-drones-planned-for-singapore.html\">Flying taxi drones planned for Singapore<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm engineers have tested drones on commercial 4G LTE networks, with positive results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":125902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2542,14979,2490,3524,42954],"class_list":["post-209188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-4g","tag-drones","tag-lte","tag-qualcomm","tag-unmanned-aircraft-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209240,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209188\/revisions\/209240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}