Implementação de uma rede para comunicação entre estações base para grupos de drones

Abstract

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAVs) are widely used for many applications, especially in agriculture. Mapping large areas for analysis is common and is a challenge because the UAVs short range. The use of base stations for recharge UAVs and collect relevant data is a pertinent proposal. This study presents a long-range and low power consumption communication system between base stations. Using Internet of Things concepts and the possibility to use multiple communication protocols in only one device allows to integrate microcontroller, server and user interface. A system was developed, which was capable to identify a drone (using RFID technology) that landed in base station and sent in real time the informations through the gateway to the serverusing LoRa technology and MQTT protocol.