WaveMesh
Platform overview

Autonomous swarm intelligence
for the world beyond the network.

WaveMesh is a full-stack autonomous drone platform built around a 60 GHz millimeter-wave mesh network. Where conventional drone systems depend on centralised ground control and reliable infrastructure, WaveMesh carries its own intelligence — distributing compute, communications, and decision-making across the swarm itself. The result is a fleet that doesn't just tolerate disruption. It operates through it.

When the link goes down,
the mission doesn't.

WaveMesh is designed from the ground up for environments where external communications infrastructure is unavailable, degraded, or actively denied. The mmWave mesh is not a relay back to a command centre — it is the command centre, distributed across every node in the fleet.

Each drone runs a full onboard stack: sensor fusion, visual SLAM, terrain matching, beamforming control, and a local message bus that keeps the swarm coordinated without any uplink. Pre-loaded mission plans execute autonomously. Onboard storage logs every telemetry event, every route decision, every command. When comms are restored — or when the drone lands — the complete operational record is intact.

Self-healing
When a node drops out, the mesh reconverges in under 500 ms. No single point of failure. No gap in coverage.
GPS-free
Radar odometry, visual SLAM, and cooperative inter-drone ranging navigate accurately without satellite signals.
Jam-resistant
Pencil-thin 60 GHz beams and wide-spectrum frequency agility make the mesh exceptionally difficult to suppress electronically.

The narrow-beam architecture that defines mmWave is also WaveMesh's primary electronic defence. A jammer cannot suppress a beam it cannot intercept — and at 1–3 degrees of beam width, the geometry makes interception geometrically improbable at any meaningful standoff distance. Frequency hopping across gigahertz of available spectrum makes wideband suppression equally impractical.

In GPS-denied environments, WaveMesh drones localise cooperatively. Each node uses the mmWave radio — the same hardware carrying mission data — as a high-precision ranging instrument. With two or three drones at known positions, the rest of the fleet triangulates to centimetre-level accuracy. The network that carries commands also carries coordinates.

Mesh recovery
< 500 ms
route reconvergence after link loss
Beam width
1–3°
spatial selectivity per link
Link throughput
10 Gbps
per hop at close range

WaveMesh is validated entirely through a physics-accurate virtual testbench before a single flight. Channel emulation, PHY/MAC modelling, and mesh routing simulation reproduce real-world degradation — rain fade, beam misalignment, link denial, GPS jamming — so every failure mode is exercised in software first. When the hardware flies, it has already survived the worst.