Iskandar, M. A. Wibisono, S. Priatna, T. Juhana, Hendrawan, N. Rachmana
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Abstract
This paper aims at designing and developing an aerial ‘flying platform’ for communication in remote area in which common telecommunication infrastructures are unavailable or not economically viable to be deployed. The base transceiver station communication devices of the platform consists of Raspberry Pi, Wi-Fi dongle, 4W amplifier and single element patch antenna as radiator. All communication devices will be packed by a container to be placed in a balloon. The balloon is designed to lift the load so that it is at an altitude of about 70 meters for the experiment. At this stage of our research, the system testing was done by placing the communication devices at the 4th floor of Labtek 8 building and measuring the received signal at surrounding places. From the measurement results, the maximum range of the ‘flying platform’ coverage is about 300 meters with received signal level of −70 dBm.