Star Stream is bringing F1-level telemetry to every race team – and every fleet – with Arduino UNO Q

Founder George Hammel describes his Star Stream engineering team as “a pretty wild group.” A few of them aren’t certified engineers in the traditional sense, but all of them grew up solving problems in motorsports – an environment that rewards fast thinking, creative solutions, and zero tolerance for downtime. That background shows in what they’ve built.

Star Stream is a live video, telemetry, and data streaming service provider, built around Starlink connectivity and designed for the most demanding environments in racing. Their Streambox Pro Kit delivers ultra-low latency video from cockpit to pit wall on circuits and off-road courses alike. But as the demands of professional racing evolved, video alone stopped being enough.

After Hammel took part in Arduino Days 2026, we had a chance to dive deeper with him into how Star Stream is meeting challenges and innovating – moving from prototype to track-ready deployment faster than expected – thanks to the Arduino ecosystem’s open-source flexibility.

From video to vehicle intelligence

Teams today want real-time granular telemetry – engine data, GPS, environmental sensors, driver biometrics – delivered fast enough to influence decisions mid-race. That meant Star Stream needed a processing platform that was rugged, versatile, and smart enough to keep up with a vehicle’s own systems.

The answer became the Telemetrybox Pro, their onboard telemetry and biometric system, built around the Arduino^® UNO^™ Q board. UNO Q pulls CAN bus frames in real-time, automatically detects and maps signal parameters, and translates raw vehicle data into meaningful telemetry – without any manual configuration from the user. Its machine learning capabilities mean the system doesn’t just read data, it learns from it. As Hammel puts it, “it’s also very smart with the machine learning capabilities that we can program from Star Stream into the device. And now we have the flexibility to make it learn, not just right now, but also well into the future. That gives us scalability.”

In practice, this means teams get real-time telemetry, biometrics, and course diagnostics through Star Stream’s mobile apps and web dashboards – something that until recently was exclusively available with Formula 1 budgets.

Built for the track, ready for the road

Star Stream has already put the Telemetrybox Pro through some of the most extreme conditions in motorsport. At Pikes Peak, where engines struggle with altitude and vehicles are tuned to the limit, a team running Star Stream’s system detected a loss of turbo boost pressure while the car was still climbing. The data reached the pit crew before the driver even reached the summit, giving the mechanics enough time to diagnose the problem, fix it, and send the car out for another run. Without real-time telemetry, Hammel says, the team’s weekend would have been over.

In Baja, where connectivity doesn’t exist until Starlink makes it possible, the stakes are different but just as real. Mid-race, Star Stream’s system flagged a tire losing pressure and a fuel situation developing – the chase crew radioed the driver and co-driver in time to pull over and fix it before the tire went flat. At a recent NORA Rally, a voltage drop was caught early enough that the team switched to a backup alternator before any damage occurred. “We or the chase crew, mechanics, crew chief, can tell what’s going on with the car before the people that are in the car usually know what’s happening,” Hammel explains.

The Telemetrybox Pro is already in commercial use, not just prototyping. Now, its same technology is being adapted well beyond motorsport: fleet services, automotive mechanics, and contractors – anyone who depends on vehicles to run a business – can use the same real-time vehicle health monitoring to reduce downtime, optimize workflows, and even feed data to insurers to demonstrate safe operation. 

Curious to find out more? Watch the full unveil video by Star Stream here and follow Star Stream on Facebook or Instagram.

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