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Innoptus Solar Team Drives Across the Australian Outback with Peplink and Frontier EU

The Innoptus Solar Team is a Belgian student engineering team developing cutting-edge solar race cars. Each year, a new team builds and optimizes a vehicle for international competition. In 2025, they took on the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, a 3,021 km journey across the Australian outback. With nine support vehicles handling strategy, telemetry and logistics, reliable connectivity was critical. To stay connected throughout the race, the team partnereed with Frontier EU and deployed a Peplink solution.

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Challenge

Connectivity Across the Australian Outback

Large parts of the Australian outback have no mobile network coverage, making reliable connectivity extremely difficult. The Innoptus Solar Team needed constant internet access to monitor the car and make strategic decisions throughout the race.

At the heart of their operations is a support vehicle known as “The Brains”. This vehicle houses the strategy team, which continuously analyses incoming telemetry from the solar car alongside weather forecasts and other data to determine optimal speed and energy usage.

Without reliable connectivity, these calculations and decisions would be severely limited.

Coordinating a Distributed Convoy

In addition to data connectivity, the team needed reliable communication between convoy vehicles. During the race, vehicles can be spread up to 100 km apart, making traditional communication systems impractical.

Several constraints complicated the situation:

No cellular connectivity across large sections of the route
UHF radio communication insufficient for long distances
Vehicles constantly in motion
Equipment had to be compact, energy efficient and easy to install

The team required a solution that could provide reliable internet connectivity and communication anywhere along the route.

Solution

To meet these requirements, Frontier EU designed a connectivity setup combining Peplink routers with satellite connectivity.

Each convoy vehicle was equipped with:

Peplink MAX Transit Duo Pro
Peplink SpeedFusion Cloud
Peplink Global eSIM data
Starlink Mini satellite terminals

The MAX Transit Duo Pro routers provided enterprise-grade mobile networking inside each vehicle, while SpeedFusion Cloud ensured stable connections for critical applications.

Combined with Starlink Mini, the solution enabled reliable satellite connectivity even in the most remote areas of the Australian outback.

This deployment allowed all convoy vehicles to remain connected while on the more, ensuring seamless communication and continuous data access throughout the race.

Result

The connectivity solution delivered outstanding performance during the competition.

Across the entire convoy, the network maintained continuous connectivity without interruptions, allowing the strategy team to across the data they needed at all times.

Deployment Overview

9 convoy vehicles connected
9 Starlink + Peplink installations
40 team members using the network

With reliable connectivity supporting their operations, the Innoptus Solar Team successfully completed the race and achieve 3rd place in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2025.

"The technology performed exceptionally well and exceeded all of our expectations. The Brains as well as the other convoy vehicles never experienced a single moment without connectivity. This allows us to look forward to what may be possible in the near future with even greater confidence."

Deployment

Product MAX Transit Duo Pro Dual-modem router for public transportation, offering bonded, uninterrupted connectivity. Datasheet Product Starlink Mini Compact and portable satellite terminal. Ideal for remote connectivity on the go. Datasheet

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