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Often times there is a need to do remote monitoring. The remote sites may be located far away; thus, traditional connectivity, such as fiber, is not possible. This paper proposes to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to provide connectivity to ground sensor clusters on a suburban industrial area. Very small, commercial scale UAVs can be used to monitor a bunch of ground sensor nodes without the dependency...