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A world of possibilities

Think Possible

Droneport Café – 17/10/19

1st

mobile network

1st

3Gnetwork

max42 Mbps

1st

4Gnetwork

Max150 Mbps

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1st

4G+network

Max225 Mbps

LoRanetwork

1st

4.5Gnetwork

Max450 Mbps

Proximus, a history of being first...

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… and preparing also for the future

Proximus

Internet of Flying Things

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• Streaming video from drones

• Securing property from the air

• Inspecting with a bird’s-eye view

• Collecting real time data

We see you seeing it all

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What a mobile network can mean for drones

DRONE TRACKING COMMAND & CONTROL (C2-link) DRONE DATA PAYLOAD

DRONE AUTHENTICATION, SECURITY, ENCRYPTION (SIM-based)

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“Connected drone”: mobile network requirements

Long term 5G specs have built-in drone-requirements (Massive MIMO / beamforming)

BUT: 4G can cover most of the requirements on the medium-term but might require extra network investments

- Areal sectorisations & special drone-antennas

- Specific new software features to improve drone-performance

Medium term Long term

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• Uniform & stable coverage

• Full capacity reserved for drone-operations

• Better QoS • Lowering interference

generated by the drone on the mobile ground network

What ? Where ? Advantages ?

• Dedicated 4G+ coverage layer optimized for drones in licenced spectrum

• Exclusive access for pre-configured drone SIM-cards

• Secured connectivity network setup

The Proximus 4G overlay drone layer in Antwerpen & Droneport

• Droneport Sint-Truiden area• Wide area of Antwerpen city

and port

@ 90M altitude

In case of interest for usage in collaborative trial: contact koen.coppens@proximus.com or vincent.hebbelynck@proximus.com

Technology Partner

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Upgrade of mobile sites for dedicated aerial drone-coverage

Site: 03LILBA LTE 2600 (not Boost) @ July

‘17 (G9/U9/U21/L8/L184T4R/L264T4R)

• No 4T4R L21 RRU

Site: 03VRAUnknown in the boost project

(G9/U21/L8/L18)• No 4T4R L21 RRU

Site: 11STO @ DroneportHigh cap site

(G9/U21/L8/L184T4R/L264T4R)• No 4T4R L21 RRU

Proximus Core

network

Fiber Transmission(existing)

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4G overlay drone network test results

Technology Partner

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Flight areas Sint-Truiden (EBR62 & 64)

• Drone-layer active:

• Only for drone provisioned SIM-cards

• Full capacity reserved for drones

• Tests done in St-Truiden (± 60 test flights)

• Proximus team in action

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Droneport St-Truiden - Test setup

What did we test ?

• 2G/3G/4G as-is + 4G overlay + LoRa

• Altitudes: from 150 to 1500 ft (± 60 test flights)

• Drones: 3DR Solo (medium risk areas) + DJI M600 (high risk areas)

• Radio quality KPIs:• Serving cells and handovers• Coverage • SINR / signal quality

• Performance KPIs - probe simulating drone-specific use-cases:• C2-link simulation: Ping/latency• Tracking simulation: Small packet download & upload • Data payload simulation: Larger packet upload/download

• Impact of drones on ground level performance

(*) LoRa = LongRange = Internet of thing track&trace network (800-900MHz band)

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Droneport St-TruidenSneak-Preview of first Droneport results – Uplink 90m

Measurement device limitation at 20Mbps

Average Throughput

Throughput in 95% of time

Availability of UL 100kbps

4,8Mbps 19,6Mbps

<0,1Mbps 12,3Mbps

92% 100%90m

Latency 40-50 msec 20-30 msec

As-is Drone-layer

Degrading forhigher altitudes

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Antwerp (incl. Port)

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Flight mission areas & trajectories Antwerpen(port & city)

• Drone-layer active:

• Covering the whole city and harbour

• Only for drone provisioned SIM-cards => full capacity => capacity issues with roamers solved => retests foreseen with FEDPOL/VRT-heli

• ± 15 Test flights (DJI M600)

• Test-report is being finalised

Clear impact of drone-layer on signal quality & stability

Drone-layer

As-is

better

Signal quality distribution

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Helicopter tests with ELIAWhat did we test ?

• Main flight altitude 50-80m (3 flight days)• Wind-mill inspection• high tension pylon inspections

• 4G locked as-is network• Performance (Day1):

• DL Av: 12,5Mbps • UL Av: 16,6Mbps• Relatively good performance and coverage

Limit of good level

Good10Mbps

4G coverage levels

4G coverage levels4G Downlink Throughput

Drones can work over 4G as-is network

taking into account the setup of security fall-back processes

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DEMO in collaboration with AIROBOT

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Drone related value added services of Proximus

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Proximus Secured 4G connectivity / private APN

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Proximus Secured Explore Mobile Access can offer

a fully secured access from drone to control-center

WHY private secured connectivity?

• Better performance:

• Higher redundancy and availability

• Better latencies and higher QoS possible

• Security: no risk for attacks and hacking

• Higher support model & more advanced trouble

shooting and problem analytics

=> Minimize down-time and maximize security !

APN: drones.prx.be

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Drone Tracking over the Proximus LoRa* network

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• Use the nationwide Proximus IOT LoRa (LongRange)

network for drone geo-localisation tracking : LoRa-

LBS(*) and/or GPS-tracker based

• Test results:

• Very good LoRa Coverage

• GPS-data is sent every 1 second

• Good accuracy of LoRa-LBS: <50 meters delta versus GPSThus good independent geo-source)

• Low Packet loss for 120m flight: < 2,5%

• Packet loss for 30m flight: less then 1%

(*) LBS = location-based-services

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Drone Tracking over the Proximus LoRa network

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Conclusions:

The Proximus LoRa network can deliver a secure

(spoofing & Wifi-jamming resilient), independent & co-operative surveillance

solution for geo-localisation verification (both independent via GPS-data & LoRa-LBS)

• Test results Sint-Truiden: • Test results Antwerpen:

Flight 90m: Green = GPS / Blue = Tracklog / Red = LBS dataFlight 90m: Green = GPS / Blue = Tracklog / Red = LBS data

Measurement results St-Truiden en Antwerpen: max deviation LoRa LBS versus Drone GPS: max deviation = 170m / average deviation = 55m

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Joint test proposal Proximus Droneport(& Antwerpen)

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Proximus proposal for Droneport testing

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(*) Different devices/systems can possibly be integrated and are compatible with common drone autopilots that support serial

communication and the MAVLink protocol, such as the Pixhawk, as well as common ground control stations like QGroundControl and

Mission Planner, DJI Guidance (i.e. BOTLINK XDR, www.flytbase.com , …)

• #5 drone-layer enabled SIM-cards for the Droneport community

• free of charge• Only valid for non-commercial

test purposes in Droneport(or on explicit request Antwerp)

WHAT IS OUR OFFER ?

• 4G Enabled drone for C2 and/or data-payload (*)= AIROBOT competence

• IMPORTANT: make sure to use a 4G-Band 1 supporting 4G-modem

WHAT IS REQUIRED ?

• SIM-cards will be managed by Droneport office

• Test duration = upon availability• Requests can be addressed to

info@droneport.eu(Tel: 011/46,00,66)

WHERE CAN I GET IT ?

• Offer is valid till end of 2019 and subject to potential extension in 2020

• The drone-layer connectivity is only foreseen for testing purposes and there is no commitment for a commercial launch

• Proximus can do tracing of network performance and request information on the test-cases for which the SIM-cards are being used

More info?

Proximus.be/drone

Thank you