Example methods and apparatus for providing over-the-air-updates to IoT sensor nodes are disclosed herein. An example unmanned aerial vehicle includes an update deliverer an update deliverer to access a firmware update to be delivered to a sensor node in a network. The sensor node is coupled to an object. The example unmanned aerial vehicle includes a camera to generate image data and an identifier to identify the object based on the image data. The update deliverer is to deliver the firmware update to the sensor node based on identification of the object

A device can be configured to receive flight data from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), where the flight data indicates at least one of an identifier that identifies the UAV, a location of the UAV, an altitude of the UAV, a bearing of the UAV, or a speed of the UAV. The device can be further configured to convert at least a portion of the flight data from a first format to a second format; generate automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) data based on the converted flight data; and perform an action associated with the ADS-B data.

A flight management system for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), in which the UAV is equipped for cellular fourth generation (4G) flight control. The UAV caries on-board a 4G modem, an antenna connected to the modem for providing for downlink wireless RF. A computer is connected to the modem. A 4G infrastructure to support sending via uplink and receiving via downlink from and to the UAV. The infrastructure further includes 4G base stations capable of communicating with the UAV along its flight path. An antenna in the base station is capable of supporting a downlink to the UAV. A control centre accepts navigation related data from the uplink. In addition, the control centre further includes a connection to the 4G infrastructure for obtaining downlinked data. A computer for calculating location of the UAV using navigation data from the downlink.

An apparatus for determining a precise location including: a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles each having a first broadband signal module and a global position system GPS receiver attached thereonto and flying in the air; and a terminal provided at a location and determining the location by communication with the first broadband signal modules. In addition, a method for determining a precise location including: respective GPS receivers receiving GPS signals from artificial satellites and detecting locations of each of the plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles, transmiting locations of the unmanned aerial vehicles and distances between the unmanned aerial vehicles and the terminal and determining a location of the terminal using information received from the first broadband signal modules.

Systems and methods for detecting an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Network access (for example, to the Internet) may be provided by detecting a UAV and fixing one or more beams from one or more ground terminals to the UAV. In one embodiment, the detection of a UAV includes forming and pointing beams from a ground terminal and ground gateways toward the UAV. The ground terminal may be configured to autonomously steer its antenna beam during initial installation to detect the reference signal from a UAV. In one variant, the ground terminals are steered to more finely track the position of the UAV based on a signal quality metric such as received signal strength and the UAV real-time position location coordinates. In one embodiment, the ground terminal antenna is initially manually pointed toward the UAV, and thereafter allowed to automatically steer to track the position of the UAV. In another embodiment the UAV antenna is steered toward a ground terminal using signal qualify received from the ground terminal and real-time position coordinates and orientation of the UAV.

Systems and methods for detecting an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Network access (for example, to the Internet) may be provided by detecting a UAV and fixing one or more beams from one or more ground terminals to the UAV. In one embodiment, the detection of a UAV includes forming and pointing beams from a ground terminal and ground gateways toward the UAV. The ground terminal may be configured to autonomously steer its antenna beam during initial installation to detect the reference signal from a UAV. In one variant, the ground terminals are steered to more finely track the position of the UAV based on a signal quality metric such as received signal strength. In one embodiment, the ground terminal antenna is initially manually pointed toward the UAV, and thereafter allowed to automatically steer to track the position of the UAV.

Systems and methods are described for an automatically deployed wireless network. According to one embodiment, an access point controller (AC) determines the existence of a network anomaly at a position of a wireless network that is managed by the AC. Responsive thereto, the AC causes an unmanned vehicle that carries a movable access point (AP) to carry the movable AP to the position or proximate thereto and causes the movable AP to provide wireless network service to an area encompassing the position by sending a dispatch command to the unmanned vehicle. The dispatch command instructs the unmanned vehicle to move to the position or proximate thereto.

Embodiments disclosed herein are related to a method that can include displaying first content on a media display, receiving first data generated from or determined by an Internet of Things (IoT) device, and displaying second content in response to receiving the first data from the IoT device.

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for vehicle navigation with water depth detection. An example disclosed method includes determining a current and a projected water depth for road segments of and around a current route to a destination. Additionally, the example method includes, in response to the current or the projected water depth of the road segments of the current route exceeding a first threshold, determining an alternate route to the destination.

An electronic device is provided that includes a communication circuit configured to transmit and receive wireless data with the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a display configured to display a user interface (UI) for operating the UAV, a memory, and a processor electrically coupled with the communication circuit, the display, and the memory. The processor is configured to receive information about a direction of a first point of the UAV from the UAV, display a direction indication object corresponding to a direction of the first point on the display, in response to receiving a user input associated with movement or rotation of the UAV, generate a control signal for moving or rotating the UAV with respect to the first point in response to a location of the direction indication object and the user input, and transmit the generated control signal to the UAV using the communication circuit.