DART
DART
Ruggedized Portable LTE Microcell
Industrial DesignMechanical DesignThermal Analysis
About the Project
How do you ensure first responders have access to reliable communications infrastructure in the middle of an emergency?
The Challenge
Wireless infrastructure is often significantly compromised in an emergency, making it difficult for response teams to communicate and save lives. Dedicated, secure, and reliable communications are critical to these teams, and any hardware development solution has to hold up in an array of difficult environments. Lives depend on it.
Our Approach
Building on years of experience designing rugged military equipment, we designed the DART™ to meet strict size, weight, and power requirements. To ensure uncompromised performance in any environment, we conducted extensive computational fluid dynamics simulations to evaluate the system’s thermal performance. We also developed a brand identity that could be tailored to the unique deployment environments that the DART™ was designed for, from disaster response to military applications.
The Result
The DART™ has all the components required of an edge-centric LTE network and works in less than three minutes just by powering it on. It was designed to manage thermal loads in a wide range of environments, and the unit’s enclosure is adaptable to the various requirements of first responders. It can also be installed at a fixed base station or as a mobile solution.
