An Inexpensive Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Tool for Mobile Network Output Analysis and Visualization
Author:
Buggiani Vittorio1, Ortega Julio César Úbeda1, Silva Guillermo2, Rodríguez-Molina Jesús1ORCID, Vilca Diego2
Affiliation:
1. Department of Telematics and Electronics Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain 2. Secondary RADAR and Identification, Friend or Foe Section, Indra Sistemas, 28108 Alcobendas, Spain
Abstract
Usage of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for different tasks is widespread, as UAVs are affordable, easy to manoeuvre and versatile enough to execute missions in a reliable manner. However, there are still fields where UAVs play a minimal role regardless of their possibilities. One of these application domains is mobile network testing and measurement. Currently, the procedures used to measure the main parameters of mobile networks in an area (such as power output or its distribution in a three-dimensional space) rely on a team of specialized people performing measurements with an array of tools. This procedure is significantly expensive, time consuming and the resulting outputs leave a higher degree of precision to be desired. An open-source UAV-based Cyber-Physical System is put forward that, by means of the Galileo satellite network, a Mobile Data Acquisition System and a Graphical User Interface, can quickly retrieve reliable data from mobile network signals in a three-dimensional space with high accuracy for its visualization and analysis. The UAV tested flew at 40.43 latitude and −3.65 longitude degrees as coordinates, with an altitude over sea level of around 600–800 m through more than 40 mobile network cells and signal power displayed between −75 and −113 decibels.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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