Robust Vehicle Mounted WiFi hotspot

Robust Vehicle Mounted WiFi hotspot

Farmers, agricultural businesses, and rural residents often struggle with poor internet coverage, limiting productivity, connectivity, and access to digital tools. Zetifi, a leader in rural connectivity solutions, wanted to expand their offering with a roaming WiFi hotspot device that could be vehicle-mounted, flexible, and robust enough to work in remote environments. Outerspace partnered with Zetifi to refine and engineer this product into a manufacturable solution. Starting from Zetifi’s initial hardware outline, we worked collaboratively to define requirements, balance cost versus features, and create a system that could deliver reliable connectivity across a wide range of rural applications.

Summary

Industry
  • Automotive & Aftermarket
  • Agriculture & Environment
Expertise
  • Firmware Design
  • Electronic engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
Awards
Good Design Award

Project Details

Project Details

The design fit within the narrow footprint required to mount on vehicles or sheds, with modular connectors enabling manufacturers to choose the right connectivity options for each SKU.

We also collaborated with Zetifi’s RF engineers to design a robust antenna enclosure. Combined with Zetifi’s multi-carrier software, the system optimises overlapping mobile and WiFi networks to deliver seamless coverage. The ZetiRoverX hotspot can broadcast WiFi up to 300 metres, enabling farmers to work productively around machinery, sheds, and paddocks with reliable voice, video, and data connections.

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Our team worked with Zetifi to develop ZetiBoard — a consolidated electronics platform that replaced three off-the-shelf products with a single, versatile PCB. This allowed multiple product configurations while reducing size and complexity.
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