Development of an Environmental Monitoring Drone Mounted Gateway

环境/健康/过程监测将构成大量物联网（IoT）应用，以降低监测成本和反应时间，并提高资源、物流和其他一些因素的有效利用率。为了获得具有成本效益和成功的物联网解决方案，必须整合和补充众多通信系统以及新兴技术。这些解决方案对加拿大等国家尤为重要，因为蜂窝通信技术在森林，矿山和管道等自然资源所在的大片地区不可用。该项目将研究如何将远程和短程通信系统与无人机相结合，以提供对加拿大特别重要的环境监测应用，例如“荒地火灾”或“石油管道泄漏”的灾害预防/管理。建立一种预防大规模灾害的方法将是加拿大政府保护其公民和自然资源的重要资产。

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.