The video dies at the range boundary
The aircraft flies on, but the short-range link it favoured has stretched past its reach — and the handover happened after the freeze, not before it.
Uncrewed & autonomous systems
The platform is autonomous. The link shouldn’t be the weak point.
For UAV, UGV and mobile-robot operators and OEMs: command, telemetry and video that keep moving as the platform changes range, coverage and direct reachability — on the companion computer it already carries.
The stakes
The stakes
For platforms in motion, the killer is rarely a broken radio — it’s geometry.
The AGV fleet stalls in a radio shadow
Between two buildings, one access point’s coverage ends and the next hasn’t picked up — and every vehicle in the seam stops.
A full day’s data leaves coverage with the vehicle
The survey platform works beyond the network by design. The data it carries shouldn’t need an operator and a USB stick to come home.
One connection over everything
The links the platform carries, as one system.
Nexus Atlas bonds the dedicated radio, cellular modems, Wi-Fi and mesh links an uncrewed platform already has into one encrypted connection — transparent to the autopilot, the video pipeline and the mission software.
dedicated C2 radiocellular ×N802.11s meshWi-Fisatellite (where carried)
Three pillars
Built around motion.
Each pillar is a demonstrable behavior on the actual platform.
Hand over before it drops
Shared position and velocity plus radio signal trends move traffic to the longer-reaching link before the short one fails — the handover happens while both still carry. Built, opt-in.
Fits the airframe
A ~15-gram compute floor, one binary, and adapters that pull telemetry straight from the radio. No enclosure, no mounting, no added mass beyond the board the platform likely already carries.
Every vehicle extends the network
Each platform is a relay: the fleet is the infrastructure, self-healing the moment a change is detected — ≈1.25 s at default settings for a lost vehicle.
~15 gSingle-board-computer floor for a full Atlas node.
0.1–0.75 sTypically configured reweighting cadence as conditions change.
8 hopsDefault relay depth (configurable) through participating fleet nodes.
6 typesDissimilar link types bonded on one node in the field demo.
Dual radio plus cellular across a changing route.
In covered areas cellular dominates; in open country the dedicated radio carries; the scheduler’s continuous scoring shifts the mix without a switchover event. The triplex pattern in the playbook
Across the dead zones, through each other.
Vehicles bond Wi-Fi and mesh and relay for each other — a shadowed vehicle reaches the controller through a neighbour instead of stopping.
The data comes home by itself.
Store-carry-forward holds the day’s data through coverage gaps and drains it — at full bonded throughput — the moment the vehicle re-enters range or passes another node.
The hill is on the map. The handover is early.
A UAV runs toward rising terrain carrying a fat 5 GHz link and a thin long-range radio. Projected geometry — and, in development, the elevation model itself — raises the short link’s risk while it still carries; video thins toward the long link, and by the time the ridge cuts the beam, nothing is left on it to lose. The mechanics, with a live simulation
Proof, with its boundary
Demonstrated at Hemus 2026.
An eight-node mixed fleet — including one airborne node — ran command and video through repeated physical path cuts and injected degradation across four days.
Controlled link-degradation trials — no live RF jamming, no customer-deployment claim. Care is deliberate: no roaming-milliseconds figures, no node-radius promises, no swarm-scale claims beyond the demonstrated fleet.
Review the evidencePure software. Pilot on the companion computer you already fly — no procurement. Vendor-neutral by design: the radios stay yours, the carriers stay yours, and Atlas bonds whatever they provide. Predictive routing in the catalogue.