I am currently participating in a UAV Challenge whereby we must drop off a payload on a desired target. The issue I am having however is obtaining a reliable video transmission whilst keeping to UK legal regulations with regards to Power. The maximum distance I need to obtain a quality feed back to the Groundstation is 500m.
The current thoughts are to either use the Immersion RC 5.8GHz Transmitter and Receiver pair, however I am a little worried that this pair will struggle to provide a quality feed for image recognition to take place.
The other thought is to use a Raspberry Pi with an attached Wi-Fi module, however again there are issues with range and also signal loss.
Any ideas or solutions to this issue would be greatly appreciated.
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The problem of the WiFi is the range and the latency.