Future FRC Technologies?

[AllenGregoryIV]

What technologies would you like to see implemented in FRC in the future?

A couple I would like to see,

1. Field view network cameras
A camera mounted on a pole above each driver station. The camera streams are available to each robot and each driver station. Each camera would be setup to view roughly half the field.

Overhead cameras are proven technologies in other events such as Robocup but doing the same for an FRC field would be very difficult. Driver station mounted cameras could be installed for every game without adding any complex overhead rigging.

The autonomous options would be very useful. We could also remove the need for teams to bring their own camera and pole setups like we had this year.

Dedicated cameras that are part of the field, would also allow FIRST to standardize a video replay system for use by the referees.

2. Faster wireless network connections
The eventual move to AC or other faster wireless standards should let us remove or increase the bandwidth cap.