The drone Turns into A Signal Station

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covers a vast territory with complex terrain. Many areas are not covered by mobile networks, and ecological and environmental monitoring data have to be collected manually. Today, reporters learned from the Chinese Academy of Sciences of the qinghai-tibet plateau, in order to solve this problem, the qinghai-tibet plateau three pole by observation and large data researcher li xin team developed a iot of drone relay system for ecological monitoring, achieve no mobile network coverage in remote real-time data acquisition, can be used in remote areas of acquisition of qinghai-tibet plateau and the environmental monitoring data of equipment. The research results were recently published a top international Journal in the field of Internet of Things.


The system includes drone airborne relay equipment and ground Internet of Things terminal equipment. In remote areas without public network coverage, when the drone carries relay equipment to the area near the ground terminal, the drone relay equipment and the ground terminal establish a remote radio communication link and send wake-up commands to wake up the wireless communication module on the ground terminal. When the drone flies over the ground terminal, the drone relay equipment establishes a high-speed data transmission link with the ground terminal. The ground intelligent terminal will send the stored environmental monitoring data to the drone. After collecting the data, the drone flies to the area covered by the mobile network and forwards the collected data.

The system is compatible with most environmental monitoring equipment and optimizes the disadvantage of high human cost of traditional manual data collection. The remote wake-up function greatly reduces the power consumption of field deployment equipment and ensures the long-term stable operation of monitoring equipment. It is of great significance to carry out environmental monitoring and collect monitoring data in remote or extreme areas such as the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, where there is no mobile network coverage.