Data Collection from Ground Sensors

[Evan D]

Apologies if this is a trivial question, but I'm doing a research project that requires a testbed for a drone to visit a series of ground sensors, wirelessly collect and store their data, and return to the base station for this data to be offloaded. The ground sensors will use either Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to transmit their data to the drone. Is implementing this on the VOXL m500 possible?

[lisa.castillo]

@Evan-D said in Data Collection from Ground Sensors:

Apologies if this is a trivial question, but I'm doing a research project that requires a testbed for a drone to visit a series of ground sensors, wirelessly collect and store their data, and return to the base station for this data to be offloaded. The ground sensors will use either Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to transmit their data to the drone. Is implementing this on the VOXL m500 possible?

Check if the ground sensors you are planning to use are compatible with the VOXL m500. Verify that there are suitable interfaces or communication options for connecting these sensors to the companion computer.

[Alex Kushleyev]

@Evan-D ,

VOXL m500 uses VOXL1 computing board, which comes with a wifi module on board. The wifi module can be configured in SoftAP mode (access point) or station mode.

If the ground sensors have wifi access points, then once m500 gets close to the access points, it can connect to those access points.

Alternatively, m500 could be an access point and once it is within range of the ground sensor, the ground sensor could detect m500 wifi SSID and connect to it.