Publication detail

Picoballoon probe

KADERKA, J. URBANEC, T.

Original Title

Picoballoon probe

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

The Brno Observatory and Planetarium organised an international competition of picobal- loon probes in March 2020. This article describes a technologies used in designing such probe. The probe developed is powered by a lithim battery which limits a lifetime of the probe to several days, but in comparsion with the solar powered solution it allows data transmission during the night. The probe is equipped with a pressure sensor and a GPS receiver. The telemetry is sent over an Internet of Things LoRaWan network to The Things Network. The probe was launched at 2nd of March and travelled over 1800 km in teperatures reaching -40 degrees Celsius before it flown to Asia out of reach of available ground stations.

Keywords

picoballoon, probe, LoRaWan, low-power, IoT

Authors

KADERKA, J.; URBANEC, T.

Released

23. 4. 2020

Publisher

Brno University of Technoogy, FEEC

Location

Brno

ISBN

978-80-214-5868-0

Book

Sborník konference EEICT 2020

Pages from

116

Pages to

120

Pages count

5

URL

https://www.fekt.vut.cz/conf/EEICT/archiv/sborniky/EEICT_2020_sbornik_2.pdf

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT163941,
  author="Jakub {Kaderka} and Tomáš {Urbanec}",
  title="Picoballoon probe",
  booktitle="Sborník konference EEICT 2020",
  year="2020",
  pages="116--120",
  publisher="Brno University of Technoogy, FEEC",
  address="Brno",
  isbn="978-80-214-5868-0",
  url="https://www.fekt.vut.cz/conf/EEICT/archiv/sborniky/EEICT_2020_sbornik_2.pdf"
}