Drone Communication and Monitoring using Cloud Computing
Pranav A, S.B. Abhinaya, M A Gnanapriya, Navin Kumar, V Satyakumar, Seungil Yoon · 2025
Droned cloud is considered as a powerful technology since it can combine various applications of drones to have high impact on several fields in the future like surveillance, disaster management, and logistics. However, one of the challenges which are encountered is to integrate drones to the cloud to provide a consistent and reliable form of communication. Additionally, such system should be scalable and capable of near real time monitoring. In this work, before using actual drones, we have used drone simulator called AirSim and integrated it with cloud for the monitoring. In addition, we have used multiple drones (3 in this case) to gather data from the environment including its own health and send it to a cloud platform. The data is processed and stored on the cloud to facilitate real time visualization of the data. The performance proves that the system enables data flow from the drones to the cloud where the data is manageable and accessible. One of performance metrics (latency) measured to be in the range 0.0008s (Drone-1) to 0.0014s (Drone-3). This work also highlights on the possibility of using drone simulation tools for the creation and evaluation of the drone-cloud integration systems. In addition, they system is expected to be cost efficient, scalable and important for research purposes.