Aerial Measurements from Outdoor 2.4GHz 802.15.4 Network

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), i.e. drones, have been commercially successful in both the consumer and industrial sectors in part due to the wide variety of applications they benefit. In environmental monitoring and precision agriculture, UASs can be utilized for data collection from rural IoT sensor networks. These networks frequently operate over some variant of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, taking advantage of the standard's low power usage. Consumer 802.15.4 radios are widely available in compact form factors, making them ideal for application in environmental and agricultural sensor networks. Unlike other wireless standards, 802.15.4 is well studied on the ground but has not received rigorous evaluation in three dimensional aerial communication, which introduces new challenges, such as antenna radiation patterns and extreme ranges. This data provides an initial look at the performance of 2.4GHz 802.15.4 for data collection from a UAS. We provide experimental performance measurement...

无人驾驶航空系统（Unmanned Aircraft Systems，UAS），即无人机，已在消费与工业领域均取得商业成功，部分原因在于其可赋能的应用场景极为丰富。在环境监测与精准农业领域，UAS可用于从农村物联网（IoT）传感器网络中采集数据。这些网络通常基于IEEE 802.15.4标准的某种变体运行，借助该标准的低功耗特性。消费级802.15.4无线电设备以紧凑形态广泛普及，使其成为环境与农业传感器网络的理想应用选择。与其他无线标准不同，802.15.4在地面场景已得到充分研究，但在三维空中通信中尚未经过严格评估——这一领域存在天线辐射模式、极端通信距离等新挑战。本数据集初步探究了2.4GHz频段802.15.4技术在UAS数据采集中的性能表现。我们提供了实验性能测量……