Radio Link Planning Made Easy with a Telegram Bot

Marco Zennaro; Marco Rainone; Ermanno Pietrosemoli

Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good. Second International Conference, GOODTECHS 2016, Venice, Italy, November 30 – December 1, 2016, Proceedings

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Radio Link Planning Made Easy with a Telegram Bot

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-61949-1_31,
    author={Marco Zennaro and Marco Rainone and Ermanno Pietrosemoli},
    title={Radio Link Planning Made Easy with a Telegram Bot},
    proceedings={Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good. Second International Conference, GOODTECHS 2016, Venice, Italy, November 30 -- December 1, 2016, Proceedings},
    proceedings_a={GOODTECHS},
    year={2017},
    month={7},
    keywords={Telegram Bots Radio frequency planning Simulator Terrain profiles Propagation models},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-319-61949-1_31}
}

Marco Zennaro
Marco Rainone
Ermanno Pietrosemoli
Year: 2017
Radio Link Planning Made Easy with a Telegram Bot
GOODTECHS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-61949-1_31

Marco Zennaro¹^,*, Marco Rainone², Ermanno Pietrosemoli¹

1: ICTP Telecommunication/ICT4D Lab
2: SolviTech

*Contact email: mzennaro@ictp.it

Abstract

Traditional radio planning tools present a steep learning curve. We present BotRf, a Telegram Bot that facilitates the process by guiding non-experts in assessing the feasibility of radio links. Built on open source tools, BotRf can run on any smartphone or PC using Telegram. Running it on a smartphone has the added value that the Bot can leverage the internal GPS to capture the current coordinates. BotRf can be used in low bandwidth environments as the generated data traffic is very limited. We present an example of its use in Venezuela.

Keywords: Telegram Bots Radio frequency planning Simulator Terrain profiles Propagation models

Published: 2017-07-28
Appears in: SpringerLink

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61949-1_31