Method and system for monitoring unmanned aerial vehicle

Abstract

A method for monitoring an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes: acquiring, by a processor of the UAV, a UAV monitoring message, wherein the UAV monitoring message includes information on one or more of: identification information related to the UAV and status information related to the UAV; composing, by the processor of the UAV, a Service Discovery Frame (SDF) carrying the UAV monitoring message, the SDF being compliant with a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) protocol; wirelessly broadcasting, by the UAV, the SDF carrying the UAV monitoring message; receiving the broadcasted SDF by a user terminal; acquiring the UAV monitoring message from the received SDF by the user terminal; and outputting the UAV monitoring message through an interface of the user terminal.

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