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TRACKING A STRATOSPHERIC BALLOON WITH IOT AT MORE THAN 630 KM

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Posted on June 25, 2018



Intermediate
3 Months

Introduction

The hardware

Cartography

The flight

Lorawan Range

Introduction


To follow in real time the trajectory of stratospheric balloons for schoolchildren, we have embeded a communication module (Pycom Lopy4/Pytrack) that uses the Lorawan TTN and Objenious networks as well as SIGFOX.

The communications made it possible to recover the nacelle and to test the range of the different technologies