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<p>This paper proposes a novel environmental monitoring mechanism to integrate recently- established development of an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) with WSNs for remote monitoring. The high mobility of UASs can solve the limitations associated with using WSNs in hazardous areas. In this paper, the WSN node, the Wireless Environmental Monitoring Station (WEMS), is based on ZigBee protocol for long-duration monitoring. Furthermore, to ensure the integrity of collected environmental data, an algorithm is designed in WEMS for verification. Finally, a detailed analysis of packet transmission efficiency based on ranges of flight distance is proposed to examine the effect of environmental monitoring.</p>
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This paper proposes a novel environmental monitoring mechanism to integrate recently- established development of an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) with WSNs for remote monitoring. The high mobility of UASs can solve the limitations associated with using WSNs in hazardous areas. In this paper, the WSN node, the Wireless Environmental Monitoring Station (WEMS), is based on ZigBee protocol for long-duration monitoring. Furthermore, to ensure the integrity of collected environmental data, an algorithm is designed in WEMS for verification. Finally, a detailed analysis of packet transmission efficiency based on ranges of flight distance is proposed to examine the effect of environmental monitoring.

INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING WITH AN UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM IN A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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This paper proposes a novel environmental monitoring mechanism to integrate recently- established development of an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) with WSNs for...

INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING WITH AN UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM IN A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK

Published Online: Mar 01, 2017

Page range: 1 - 22

Received: May 28, 2017

Accepted: Jul 28, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-230

Keywords
Wireless Sensor Networks, Unmanned Aerial System, ZigBee, Remote monitoring, Remote Sensing, Data collection

© 2017 Ching-Ju Chen et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING WITH AN UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM IN A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK

Published Online: Mar 01, 2017

Page range: 1 - 22

Received: May 28, 2017

Accepted: Jul 28, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-230

KeywordsWireless Sensor Networks, Unmanned Aerial System, ZigBee, Remote monitoring, Remote Sensing, Data collection

© 2017 Ching-Ju Chen et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Wireless Sensor Networks, Unmanned Aerial System, ZigBee, Remote monitoring, Remote Sensing, Data collection