Bandwidth from 6 robots while managing a field has always been the concern with going to the new WIFI system. Many factors including possible interferrence from venues and overall security weigh on this. Especially when looking at situations like Atlanta with 4 fields running at once. While the new fields are using the latest State of the Art Wifi, there has not been enough characterization done of what adding a real time video stream from each robot will do to the overall performance of controlling the bot over the WIFI simultaniously. We will be collecting data from all regionals through this season to see what the possible impacts are.
Begrudgingly, the decision was made to put off being able to stream video from bots through this current regional timeline. I have faith that we will prove it can be done reliably after getting data from all venues this year and using robot streaming video in the OFF SEASON so it can be utilized in future regional events.
BotBash BOB Pitzer
4FX Design