Drones
Where the host network permits aerial use, agricultural spraying and mapping drones plus infrastructure inspection flights run with command links and payload offload on separate bearers where the regulation requires it. Command and control is a heartbeat with position and intent, so it is small and constant; the bearer comparison explains why the two streams are sized differently. Payload is the opposite: a mapping flight can produce several gigabytes of imagery, and a live inspection feed at 4 Mbps is about 1.8 GB an hour. Upload after landing where the mission allows it, and keep the airborne link for control and thumbnails.
Agricultural operations
Spraying, seeding and crop-monitoring fleets coordinated per field and per season, with operating categories named upfront. The work is seasonal and bursty: a fleet may fly every day for three weeks and then sit idle, so a monthly plan sized for the peak is the wrong shape. Flight logs, prescription maps and coverage imagery are downloaded at the field edge, often over the same link that carried the flight. Where the field has no coverage, the mission plan is loaded before take-off and the drone returns with the data rather than depending on a live stream.
Robots
Service, cleaning, lawn-mowing and industrial-inspection robots on supervised routes, reporting position, task state and maintenance needs. The link carries supervision, not control: the robot runs its route locally, and the network tells the fleet where it is and what it has done. A cleaning robot in a shopping center or an office block may have Wi-Fi in part of the route and cellular in the rest, so the software has to survive a handover without restarting the task. Give each robot a stable identity, log every task, and let a lost link stop the robot safely rather than leave it driving blind.
Industrial inspection
Chimney, tank, solar-row and facade inspection robots with video backhaul sized from the clip plan. Telemetry alone fits a narrow budget; a live camera changes the design. The operator needs to see enough to steer, not cinema quality, so stream a compressed preview and record the full-resolution video on the robot for upload later. Where the robot works inside a metal structure, the radio path is the constraint, not the bandwidth, and a relay or a tether may be the only workable option. Check the site's own permit rules before assuming a link is allowed.
Docks and remote operations
A drone dock turns a flight into a scheduled task: the dock opens, the aircraft launches, flies the route, lands and charges, and the data moves to the platform. That pattern needs an always-on site link rather than a link on the aircraft, and the upload of the day's imagery can be the largest traffic on the site. Docks face weather and power cuts, so pair the link with a UPS and a low-bandwidth fallback that still reports dock health. Walk the site with a signal tool before fixing the antenna.
