IM-WANTEDD
- Interoperable: An interconnected network of drones
- Mesh: Peer to peer communication
- Wireless: No cables are available in the sky
- Ad-hoc: Peer to peer communication while reacting to frequent changes in the network
- Network for: A connection of nodes for communication
- Triangulating: Finding the correct position from several nodes
- Emergencies with: Helps in urgent situations with no room for failure
- Decentralized: The network can communicate and store information without a central hub
- Drones: Drones can access areas inaccessible to people
Table of contents
Introduction
People are lost in avalanches and landslides every year. The areas that are left behind these natural disasters are very unsecure and dangerous to traverse. Saving people that are under several layers of snow, dirt or stone therefore requires expertise. Unfortunately, the experts take time to gather to a single spot. As the areas are hard to traverse, it takes a lot of time to search even with years of experience. Even with expertise and experience there is still danger just exposing people to these open hazards.
IM-WANTEDD provides the simulation necessary to understand how these emergencies can be solved in the best possible way; with no lives lost. It is created through the subject IDATT2104 - Network Programming at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Drones are put over a landscape and communicate together in a mobile wireless mesh network.
Definitions and Acronyms
- DSM: Digital Surface Model
- DSRC: Dedicated Short Range Communication
- FANET: Flying Ad-hoc Network
- GPS: Global Positioning System
- HMAC: Hash Message Authentication Code
- IM-WANTEDD: Interoperable Mesh Wireless Ad-hoc Network for Triangulating Emergencies with Decentralized Drones
- IP: Internet Protocol
- MAC: Media Access control
- MANET: Mobile Ad-hoc Network
- OLSR: Optimized Link State Routing
- QGIS: Quantum Geographic Information System, a free and open-source cross-platform desktop geographic information system application
- RTS/CTS: Request to send / Clear to send
- TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access
- UAV: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
- VANET: Vehicular Ad-hoc Network