Applications of Drones using Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are one of the recent advancements in the field of research that helps in the process of data exchange between devices using battery-operated computing and sensing devices. But reliability, security of data, power consumption and range are onerous challenges which still exist. On the other hand, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAVs) has emerged as a widely used application with increasing its scalability from commercial to personal applications. This paper aims at providing a new architecture addressing the above challenges faced by WSN using a Low-Powered IPv6 based wireless protocol, Thread by incorporating with UAV to extend the range of WSN and using ECC (Elliptic-curve cryptography) to secure the data transmission in WSN. A practical application for this new architecture is described in the paper which aids in maintaining an eco-friendly environment for human society.