Turn any LTE 4G cell into a sub-50 ms, encrypted command backbone for 1K drone swarms limited with 30km and $100K BOM.
Moon landed military grade real-time system flight stack on dual-core Cortex-M33 + vector unit.
GSMA-compliant SM-DP+ server provisions profiles over-the-air.
Sub-GHz spread-spectrum; 40 km range at 250 kbps.
220 Mbps symmetric; 20 ms to ground C2.
Leader drones carry BladeRF micro 2×2 MIMO; base station BladeRF xA9 with 4× high-gain antennas.
S-Message (Link32) has 32-Byte header. We use Snowflake for node identification, SeqNo for deduplication (on QoS=1) and LDAP for drone registry (OTA provisioning).
typedef struct {
uint8_t version:4, type:4, qos:4, hop:4;
uint32_t npg_id; // 1-103 topic
uint32_t node_id; // FNV-1a hash
uint32_t seq_no; // anti-replay
uint8_t iv[16]; // AES-GCM nonce
uint16_t payload_len;
uint8_t payload[]; // encrypted + 16 B tag
} SkyNetMessage;git clone https://github.com/bitedits/skynet && cd skynetmake (needs GCC & OpenSSL)./skynet.sh (256 ECC pairs)srsenb -c enb.conf &srsmbd -c epc.conf &./skynet server| Item | Qty | Unit $ | Subtotal $ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pixhawk 6C + RP2350 flight controller | 1,000 | 65 | 65,000 |
| LoRa SDR modem (RF95 + RP2350) | 1,000 | 18 | 18,000 |
| BladeRF micro 2.0 (leader drones) | 5 | 550 | 2,750 |
| BladeRF xA9 (base-station) | 1 | 1 100 | 1,100 |
| 17 dBi sector antennas | 4 | 180 | 720 |
| eSIM profiles (GSMA SM-DP+) | 1,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Starlink Flat-High-Performance | 1 | 2,500 | 2,500 |
| TOTAL CAPEX | $90,070 | ||