Implementation of Cellular-Based Drone Module using Cloud Services

Adrian Ferdinand Jotham, Fussy Mentari Dirgantara, Muhammad Faris Ruriawan

Abstract

The notion of a smart city incorporates the integration of infrastructure, services, and the community and encompasses the deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for monitoring crop fields, facilitating logistics delivery, and performing high-altitude cleaning tasks. In a smart city, the interconnectedness of devices is realized through the medium of the Internet of Things (IoT). This research endeavors to explore the usage of Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) for enabling remote command and control of UAV/UGV modes, leveraging 4G/LTE connectivity as an enabler. 4G/LTE connectivity is known for its improvement in data transfer speed and network capacity, which potentially enables the connection of more devices, including drones. The high availability and scalability of cloud services have become crucial factors in utilizing cloud services as the most cost-effective and expedient relay for connecting two nodes over the internet globally for now. The proposed methodology would be integrated into a smart drone module, which would be deployed at a small scale as a component of the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS).

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.20961/jeeict.5.2.72640

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