Standalone portable communication system for disaster

Project Title

Standalone portable communication system for disaster

Project Area of Specialization Electrical/Electronic EngineeringProject Summary

The focus of the project is to develop a standalone portable communication system suitable for operation in disasters. In emergency, the existing communication system fails and people trapped in the locality can thus not communicate with other localities. The proposed system will be portable and easy to carry system. It can be deployed in few easy steps and would be able to communicate with far away areas. For the purpose of long distance communication, a directional antenna along with low power transceiver would be required. To power up the low power transceiver, a self-sustained renewable energy system (e.g. Solar Panels) along with efficient charger to charge up the battery would be developed.

The focus of the project is to develop a standalone portable communication system suitable for operation in disasters. In emergency, the existing communication system fails and people trapped in the locality can thus not communicate with other localities. The proposed system will be portable and easy to carry system. It can be deployed in few easy steps and would be able to communicate with far away areas. For the purpose of long distance communication, a directional antenna along with low power transceiver would be required. To power up the low power transceiver, a self-sustained renewable energy system (e.g. Solar Panels) along with efficient charger to charge up the battery would be developed.

Project Objectives

1. Development of a portable standalone communication system.
2. Design and development of high performance antenna for the system.

Project Implementation Method

goals we use raspberry pi(RPi) and  LoRa (long range) module. RPi is a small board computer which perform many tasks at the same time. LoRa is a low power wide area network(LPWN) technology. LoRa use as a long range (more than 10 km) radio transceiver which use license free radio frequencies bands like 433 MHz

Benefits of the Project

to serve society in case of natural disasters 

communicate with those area where communication does not exist

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

1. A standalone portable communication setup capable of communicating with far areas in 10 Km range.

we use raspberry pi(RPi) and  LoRa (long range) module. RPi is a small board computer which perform many tasks at the same time. LoRa is a low power wide area network(LPWN) technology. LoRa use as a long range (more than 10 km) radio transceiver which use license free radio frequencies bands like 433 MHz, 868MHz(EUOPE), 915 MHz (Australia and North America). To make it standalone we use lithium ion battery because it is light in weight than any other battery. The battery will be charged from solar panel.

Thus this model act as portable standalone communication system. Which is capable of working in any type of weather condition even in natural disasters when all other communication systems are down.

Final Deliverable of the Project HW/SW integrated systemCore Industry TelecommunicationOther Industries Others Core Technology Internet of Things (IoT)Other Technologies OthersSustainable Development Goals Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Sustainable Cities and CommunitiesRequired Resources

Elapsed time in (days or weeks or month or quarter) since start of the project	Milestone	Deliverable
Month 1	literature	covered basis of antenna
Month 2	literature review	read 4 research paper
Month 3	simulation progress	learned how to use cst software
Month 4	simulation progress	simulated dipole antenna for uhf 435 MHz
Month 5	learn software to code raspberry pi	python
Month 6	fabricate antenna	High Gain Antenna