Streaming real-time solar racing to the world

Sharing the future of Solar Racing with the world

Twelve students from KU Leuven in Belgium have built a solar car that has won on three continents. This July, they are racing in America. And you can race with them.

Three down, one to go. The Innoptus Solar Team are heading to America in July to conquer the last continent on their list.

For 8 gruelling days, across remote and demanding terrain, every second matters. The team needs to monitor the vehicle data in real time to make the right strategic decisions on the road. Data must travel from the car to the engineers back in Belgium, and then back to the convoy, at high speeds and without interruption.

That’s where Peplink and Venn Telecom come in. By deploying Peplink’s patented SpeedFusion technology, Venn Telecom combines multiple cellular and satellite networks into a single, unbreakable link.

And the data isn't just staying inside the team's strategy rooms. It is being opened up to view worldwide. Throughout the upcoming challenge, people can follow the race live and track the car's data through an online dashboard.

Watch the video to see the team's setup and discover how reliable connectivity looks on the open road:

Innoptus Solar Team video transcript:

Narrated by Innoptus Solar team members, Anthony Vanden Abeele and Marie-Johanna Schillemans,

Anthony: Reliable connectivity is essential when racing a solar car across thousands of kilometres.

Competing in solar races, every second matters. Our team needs to monitor the vehicle data in real time to make the right strategic decisions.

That's why we're proud to welcome Peplink and Venn Telecom as our official connectivity partners for the American Solar Challenge. And with proper power management, the whole race setup stays operational during the long race days, even in demanding conditions.

Marie-Johanna: During our recent test days, the system proved to us that it could provide a stable connection. This gave us confidence not only in the hardware itself, but in the whole system behind it.

Using SpeedFusion, multiple connections can be combined into one robust link, which increases reliability on the road.

Anthony: But it goes even further than that. Thanks to Peplink and Venn Telecom, people around the world will be able to follow the race live and track our car's data through an online dashboard throughout the challenge.

Using GPS forwarding, we can continuously track the exact position of the solar car and the rest of our whole convoy. So this setup gives that overview and keeps the communication stable during the race.

Even our alumni can now follow the race in real time and contribute to the team's strategy from wherever they are. With this connectivity, we're ready to take on the road ahead.

Together with Peplink and Venn, we're bringing reliable connectivity to the road and sharing the future of solar racing with the world.

We don’t deliver networks for ideal conditions. We build them for the real ones so the world can watch the future of solar racing unfold as it happens.

Reliability connectivity, anywhere. That’s what we do.