Project done as IT engineer intern at Kissfly

At Kissfly, I was in charge of improving the live video streaming system that broadcasted the video taken on the drone to the ground station.
The system was built with a Node.js Express server running on the drone and a headless Chromium instance running as a server's client (on the drone as well), offering a connection in peer-to-peer to the ground station. This allowed to stream the live video taken on the drone via WebRTC (RTC stands for Real Time Communication).

My mission was to test multiple configurations in different environments in order to improve the maximum streaming distance, as well as the video latency and framerate.
I did many tests twicking WebRTC parameters, and a lot of research in the documentation and on the Internet. This taught me a lot on peer-to-peer and video streaming systems.
In the end, I managed to improve the maximum streaming distance to the goal we had defined beforehand while reducing the latency and increasing the framerate. This mission was a success, but I also concluded that these technologies were not well-suited for this specific use case and that they had reached their limits.

This experience allowed me to work with new technologies and to understand their limitations and capabilities. I was able to improve my skills in live video streaming, web development, and problem-solving.