Implementing a Communication Network between Bases Station applied for Group of Drones

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) have been shown to be increasingly frequent for a diversity of applications, mainly in agriculture. The mapping of large areas for analysis purposes is common and it is considered a challenge due to the short range of the UAVs. The base stations utilization for drone recharge and important information obtainment is a relevant proposal. This paper features a low energy cost long range communication system between in base stations. Using Internet of Things (IoT) concepts and the possibility of utilizing a diversity of communication protocols in just a single device, this paper shows the integration between microcontroller, server and operator interface. The developed system is capable of identifying a drone that just landed in a base station through RFID technology, and send this and other information in real time through the command line “gateway” to the server using LoRa technology and Message Queuing Telemetry (MQTT) protocol.