Working on something similar at the moment, more on the cloud processing side though, and using off the shelf hardware for the 4G link - a mobile phone. Watche

Working on something similar at the moment, more on the cloud processing side though, and using off the shelf hardware for the 4G link - a mobile phone. Watched a video of a talk by the drone deploy guys last week and I think they have done a great job in terms of turning this into a combined hardware/SaaS product, with an easy to use pipeline.