What is Elsight’s multilink bonding for robust connectivity?
Elsight’s proprietary bonding mechanism keeps drones in flight at an unprecedented 99.8% uptime, ensuring continuous and reliable transmission for your missions. The bonding technology aggregates multiple communication channels, such as public and private cellular networks of LTE or 5G, satellite, and point-to-point radio, creating a logical layer that encapsulates all channels.
Elsight manages communication failures internally, within the logical pipe, dynamically steering traffic among the best available paths to maintain control and uninterrupted video feeds and prevent disconnects at the application level.
How does Elsight’s bonding mechanism work?
When setting up the link between the drone and the Drone Network Operating Center (DNOC), Elsight initializes a control channel from each datalink path, measuring its performance.
Elsight monitors real-time HRT (Hit Reaction Time) latency, packet loss, network congestion, and other factors and balances the traffic load among the available links to ensure ongoing transmission. Data traffic is then duplicated and split into discrete packets, sent along a secure VPN pipeline back to the DNOC, and recombined, providing absolute data integrity and redundancy.
Elsight’s BVLOS in Action
Elsight predicts the performance of each data path in a specific time and location, optimizing the traffic based on these heuristics. Operator-configured network priorities enable a smart switch among communication as circumstances demand.
When Elsight detects a downgrade in network performance, an AI-powered algorithm studies the characteristics of each path, understands the root cause, and chooses the best way to avoid traffic loss.
The traffic balancing among communication links powers Elsight’s trademark absolute connection confidence, ensuring constant and consistent connectivity between drones and the DNOC. Elsight also provides a detailed audit trace of how much data was sent from each link, what caused a change in link ratios, and the current performance of each link.
Elsight’s connection confidence is taking unmanned BVLOS operations to the next level. The compact and efficient design enables easy integration into diverse drone platforms without compromising flight performance.
Contact Elsight to equip your drones with multilink BVLOS connectivity.
