Sistema de comunicaciones empleando SDR para prácticas multidisciplinarias de la Carrera de Ingeniería en Electrónica y Comunicaciones de la Universidad Técnica de Ambato

Abstract

ABSTRACT A large number of applications have been developed that work using wireless communications, and in each of them different hardware is used for transmission and reception, as is the case with Wi Fi and LTE or Radio Broadcast technologies, to name a few. Each technology works with a different range of frequencies or modulations, so it is difficult to have a device dedicated to each of these technologies in a classroom or research laboratory, therefore the need for the integration of all applications arises. Without having to change the hardware, from this the concept of SDR (Software Defined Radio) can be used, which allows altering the operation of hardware by using software with the aim of reducing costs, starting from this premise this project proposes a series of practices using this technology in order to allow the student of the Engineering Degree in Electronics and Communications to know the applications and benefits that SDR has, in the same way the teacher can make use of these practices to complement the process of student learning. The theory taught in the modules of: Analog Communications, Digital Communications, Wireless Communications and Mobile Communications allows the student to establish theoretical criteria for the management of each parameter that determines the operation of the practices developed in this work.