Design and Implementation of Antenna System for Live Video Streaming and News Gathering

Justin Akosuga Kpelai¹ , Celestine Mbakaan² , Seember Justin-Kpelai³

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.9 , Issue.2 , pp.9-19, Jun-2022

Online published on Jun 30, 2022

Copyright © Justin Akosuga Kpelai, Celestine Mbakaan, Seember Justin-Kpelai . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
This research aim to design a self-steering air to ground antenna- tracking system for live mobile video streaming and newsgathering. The design is such that it automatically track a signal transmitted constantly via a target through a source, such as a communication satellite or any transmitting device. The antenna was built by using a driven element, reflector and eleven directors. The antenna tracking system comprises of a unit composes of a microcontroller circuit board and pan-tilt mechanism. The tracking system also contain another unit, which is an array of three Yagi antennas each connected to a Wi-Fi adapter module. The tracking system adopts mechanical beam steering method and closed –loop antenna-tracking method for its operation. The antenna has a gain of 12.2 dB and beamwidth of 39.1°.The-tracking test validates that the designed antenna tracking system worked well. The Performance result at a speed of 0.9 m/s and 20 m distance between transmitter and receiver indicates that the tracking was more efficient with directional antenna compared with the omnidirectional antenna over the considered distance. Generally, the device proves to be very good enough for live mobile video streaming and newsgathering applications.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Yagi antenna; live mobile video streaming; Newsgathering; Wireless transmission; Video delivery

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