Real-time Aircraft Telemetry using Wireless Sensor Network

This paper descirbres the design of a real time monitoring system based on wireless sensor networks aiming to measure accelerations, airspeed, spacial orientation and geographical position of a radio-controlled aircraft in order to allow their designers (university students) to measure how their planes performed. We use a Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer board connected to sensor, a SD card and XBee radio module, and a visualization software on ground to decipt the airplane characteristics while on flight. After specification and implementation, individual tests were realized with sensors , as well as and in-flight test.