Our drive test minions come in variety of versions crafted to your specific needs. They can be as simple as low cost SBC just collecting statistic from third party 5G FWA CPE or a powerful 5G networking platform with 2.5 Gbit/s Ethernet port capable of saturating 100 MHz 5G sector with traffic.
When a 5G modem is needed we use industry most compatible M.2 modem with all global 5G bands. Tested with Huawei and Nokia base station in 5G-SA mode.
Our minions are fully upgradable to the future Qualcomm X62 and X65 chipsets with a simple swap of modem module when they become available.
A mmWave minion?
We are already working on it…
Our Minion is a SBC computer that is running Ubuntu Linux and and DTM client software that collects the metrics form the target system and is controllable over the network with MQTT protocol.
Minion comes with client software source code so it can be easily adapted to your task or our engineers will be more then happy to do it for you.
When direct 5G signal acquisition is required we have a version of the minion with one of the the most compatible X55 5G modem modules from Quectel – RM500GL.
It is equipped with 4 x SMA antenna connectors so you can use it with precisely calibrated antennas that do have a propagation pattern for every band.
Designed for drive testing in any outdoor conditions this minion is housed in the IP68 case with integrated state of the art high gain omnidirectional multiband 4×4 antenna.
It has very uniform omni gain so your results will not be affected by position of the modem and antenna.
Minion is also equipped with the 99Wh swappable battery pack that provides up to 20h of autonomy for even longest drive test sessions.
For those tricky carbon fiber and glass roofs we have a suction cup car roof mounting or it can be also hooked to the classic roof rails.
For easy control of your minions on the go we provide a Remote control Android app that allows basic control of minions on the go from an easy interface of the MQTT dashboard. This way you can start-stop and monitor the drive test without using the the main DTM interface.