Development of surveillance drone based internet of things (IoT) for industrial security applications

Abstract

Drones or mini-unmanned aerial vehicles, have becoming an emerging trends due to their boundless applications in surveillance, military and numerous public services. Nowadays, deployment of surveillance drone for monitoring or security application remains challenging and ongoing research. As Internet of Things (IoT) becomes more commercialized, various concept of IoT have been integrated with the drones due to efficient usage. Therefore, this paper proposed the development of surveillance drone system based on IoT for industrial monitoring-security applications. The rationale of integrating IoT with surveillance drone is that it allows authenticated users to login from any device, anywhere, and view video or images from surveillance drones in real-time for security awareness. In this work, the surveillance drone consists of mechanical system, electrical and electronic interfacing and IoT platform (mobile application system). In electronic system, power module, communication module, sensor and actuator as well as user interface module have been adopted and integrated into the systems. Besides, in software development system, user interface configuration was developed through mobile application to serve as IoT platform. A series of experiments shows that the surveillance drone based IoT able to operate with a promising flying distance with surveillance camera as the “eyes” of the drone system.