CAPTURING DRONE TELEMETRY DATAWITH COUCHBASE MOBILE

Jeff Dillon, Couchbase + PureRockets

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Drone Telemetry Data

Data to capture:

GPS Altitude Compass Heading Acceleration Aircraft Statistics Battery Level Motor Temperatures

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Onboard Electronics

Sensor Controller

Flight Controller

Phone

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Drone Telemetry with Couchbase Mobile

• Current techniques:• Local SD card – Always offline• Radio and/or Wi-Fi – Online when within range,

lost data when not• No good offline + online story

• With Couchbase Mobile• Local storage when offline, auto-sync when online• Provides full positional history for drone flight

auditing• Logging technology of choice for the Internet of

Things

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Example of Positional History

Drone Positional History

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Drone Uses for Which Telemetry Can Be Important

• Human rescue• Sport flying• Heavy equipment

transport• Orbital re-entry

catch and retrieve

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Drone Telemetry with Couchbase Mobile

• Arduino-style sensor controller

• Broadcasting over UDP

• Running on Arduino

• Mounted on drone

WIFI.send(tosend);

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• NodeJS UDP listener

• Couchbase Connector

• Running on PC

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• Xamarin Android application

• Running on phone

• Mounted on drone

DEMO

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Contact: jeff@purerockets.com

http://www.purerockets.com

Thank you.