CloudRF

CloudRF is in front of the world this week at the ITU World Radiocommunication Seminar in Geneva ! 🇨🇭 🇺🇳 We've been running live demos of CloudRF, SOOTHSAYER and ATAK and have received valuable feedback from the event to inform our roadmap. 🛰️ Merci Beaucoup to all the visitors, surprise customers and long distance partners who came to see us and made our debut a success. #ituwrs

CloudRF is now certified Cyber Essentials Plus. This audit required internal and external testing of our infrastructure and is proof we take the security of our platform seriously. Our assessment was conducted by Incursion Cyber Security whom we highly recommend for an expert service. Review our certification on the blockmark registry: https://lnkd.in/ev7b5ugj Read about the CE+ criteria here: https://lnkd.in/eh25WyYf

Dedicated to those Government departments who pay maintenance for slow and old tools no one actually uses because they meet the requirements.

HF Skywave is now available on CloudRF. 🚦 Frequency prediction charts 🌍 Global wide area simulation 🎨 ITSA HF antennas: Sloping Vee, Inverted-L, Long wire, LPA 🎯 Calibrated against crowd sourced link data We now have an easy to use interface and API for the VOACAP engine which outputs to open GIS formats for compatibility with GIS systems. For students, this next generation capability will be a powerful learning aide and for VOACAP veterans, it will offer a new accessible format for a tried and tested model. HF Skywave blog: https://lnkd.in/gnDaSHv7

We just added LiDAR data for 1000 US Cities and Towns. 🇺🇸 We have activated a pipeline to ingest high resolution data for the US. If you want to see what we already have, check out our interactive coverage map: https://lnkd.in/eMqzB6X6 If there's a part of the US you want, open a ticket with some co-ordinates and we'll add it to the list for processing. Years ago, this feat would have been unthinkable due to the conversion effort required for (state) data sets in different formats and projections: Fetching, Converting, Stitching, Re-projecting, Re-tiling....We can now do in an hour what used to take a full day. Thanks to the US Army Corps of Engineers, the data has been processed into a common point cloud format (LAZ), hosted within a structured hierarchy with a common projection and hosted courtesy of Amazon Web Services (AWS). A special thanks to the late Martin Isenburg, a LiDAR visionary and the author of LAStools which made this possible through standards, tools and education. What does this mean for the future of OEM planning tools whose USP was this free public LiDAR? Well, Google just pulled the plug on theirs... This incredible public data was funded by the US taxpayer. References: USGS Entwine data map: https://usgs.entwine.io/ CloudRF terrain map: https://lnkd.in/eMqzB6X6 USGS LiDAR github: https://lnkd.in/e5PRcnXP Martin Isenburg memorial: https://lnkd.in/gF2bcrrK

HF Skywave will be available in November. By popular request, we've integrated the VOACAP engine into our API to provide frequency prediction and area coverage. By using a mature propagation engine in our scalable architecture this increasingly critical capability can be integrated into different clients, starting with our own 3D interface. HF will be a free upgrade, available to all plans.

We were asked if our 3D engine could model DAS in an office and would we need a floorplan: Currently you can do it through our Blender plugin with a 3D model. When we launch the official UI, you'll do this from a web interface. It's not as quick and pretty as a 2D tool but gives the full picture as honestly, indoor multipath is messy!

 This week, we had the privilege of collaborating with the RAF RCO Airborne Experimentation Unit to advance air-to-ground communications during a series of flight trials. Over three days of intensive experimentation, we tested our Omega Three Panel and Sigma Range antennas, achieving significant improvements in airborne antenna directionality during various flight manoeuvres. A major focus was on the Sigma Range antennas' capability to enhance air-to-ground links with personnel. The results were outstanding—more than doubling the range compared to a standard in-service dipole antenna. The trials also demonstrated the absence of an overhead null, allowing continuous connectivity even when the aircraft was directly overhead. On the aircraft side, the Omega Three showcased its versatility as a conformable antenna, covering 280MHz to 6GHz for a broad range of operational needs, delivering omnidirectional coverage with minimal aerodynamic impact. “This week the RAF RCO AEU with support from AiX have completed some very interesting experimentation with Far Field Exploits. This Experimentation has furthered development of highly versatile Flat Panel Antennas. This, again is a great example of RAF and Industry SME collaboration to further UK and Allied warfighter applicable technology” – Prof, Patrick J Baker – Head Science RAF RCO AEU & AiX. A big thank you to the RAF RCO Airborne Experimentation Unit and the CloudRF team for their collaboration and support in making this a successful project!

SOOTHSAYER 1.8 is out now. It's our second feature release of the year and now that we've retired the big ol' VM the download has shrunk from 12GB to 200MB, you can share your GPU and get more control over patching and data. New Features: 🏠 3D Multipath 🛰 Satellite coverage 🚁 General Purpose Model ✈ Flight path route analysis 🐜 Dozens of bugfixes - thanks for the reports. A feature summary and change log is on the blog here: https://lnkd.in/enf4xe_W Lastly, to counter the (half true) rumour that it takes days to install, we've broken protocol and put the 9 minute install video on youtube 😉 https://lnkd.in/e4Gh_tGA

This week we added the Jetson Orin nano 8GB to our matrix of supported devices for our latest Docker image. This is the smallest GPU host we've built on and the little guy performed very well. If you have a Jetson board in your edge hardware and your business is communications, you should take a look at SOOTHSAYER. https://lnkd.in/eaiwsUH