Eyes in the Sky: Building a 24/7 Aerostat Sensor Hub with Arduino Mega, ESP32, and WIZnet W5500

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What Is an Aerostat? An aerostat is a tethered balloon — not a free-floating weather balloon that drifts with the wind, but one anchored to the ground by a cable, held at a fixed altitude above a specific location. The applications range from military surveillance and border monitoring to civilian uses like persistent atmospheric research, agricultural monitoring, and communications relay. Because they stay in one place, aerostats can run 24/7, continuously collecting data in a way a drone or free-floating balloon cannot. Running sensors continuously at altitude creates a specific set of…

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