LoRa equipped Unmanned Aerial Vehicle prototype for Energy Efficient Wireless Data Gathering

Phedra Zriba¹ , Raik Aissaoui²

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Vol.8 , Issue.4 , pp.46-50, Aug-2020

Online published on Aug 31, 2020

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Abstract :
After used in military applications, UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) are emerging in many applications such as communication relaying, traffic control. They can reach far and isolated areas. However, the major drawback of drone?s communications is the lack of communication coverage or power inefficiency. Many researches have focused on increasing the range of coverage with different technologies. In this paper, we study LoRa (Long-Range) protocol and implement LoRa equipped Unmanned Aerial Vehicles prototype. We prepared two LoRa Cards one for the drone and the other for the ground devices. Then, we programmed the microcontroller. For the result, we did a free flight final test with drone. In this test, we noticed the variation of the two value of drone when the drone is on motion

Key-Words / Index Term :
UAV, LoRa, Energy efficiency, Communication coverage

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