On February 24th, 2020, Chief Technology Officer of Censys Technologies Corporation, John Lobdell, led a team to apply for the Florida-Israel Innovation Partnership Aerospace Track and R&D Aerospace Grant Program. This initiative is a bilateral partnership with Space Florida and the Israel Innovation Authority to connect companies in each location with the goal to amplify the possibilities for aerospace R&D across the globe. Censys’ Israeli partner, Mobilicom, will be separately financed by the Israel Innovation Authority to fund the Censys Technologies and Mobilicom R&D project.
Censys Tech has worked with Mobilicom for a few years integrating their equipment into Censys drones as a communications cornerstone to “make impossible critical communications possible,” as their mission states. To expand on Mobilicom’s ideals and combine them with Censys’ goal of a seamless integrated drone technology solution, the duo is co-creating an Autonomous Platforms Dual Datalink (APDDL) system utilizing unified multiband communications. This system enables concurrent operation of two adjacent wireless links between an airborne entity and a ground operator (as dual standalone links or in redundancy usage scheme) without local mutual interference. According to predefined settings and real-time data quality analysis, the APDDL system will provide the connected user equipment with the “best” received data over the wireless link. This technology will add redundancy and resiliency to the broad space of UAS.
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