Development of an Environmental Monitoring Drone Mounted Gateway

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Environmental/health/process monitoring will constitute a large number of Internet of Things (IoT)applications to reduce the costs of monitoring and reaction time, and to increase the efficient utilization ofresources, logistics and a number of other factors. In order to have cost effective and successful IoT solutions,numerous communication systems as well as emerging technologies must be integrated and complemented.These solutions are particularly important for countries such as Canada since cellular communicationtechnologies are not available in large territories where natural resources such as forests, mines, and pipelines,are located. This project will investigate how to integrate long and short range communication systems to beoperated with drones to provide environmental monitoring applications especially important for Canada suchas disaster prevention/management in "wildland fires" or "oil pipeline leaks". Establishing a method forpreventing large-scale disasters will be a vital asset to the Canadian government in protecting its citizens andnatural resources.