Smartphone Controlled Drone – Changing the Way of Working

Author: Mustafa Murabbi

It’s an era of unmanned aerial vehicles better known as drones. It’s not like there were no flying vehicles around in the past, Aerospace, Aircrafts, Spaceships & Shuttles have been invented and there for many years. However the focus was only limited to, travel, air cargo and space research mostly. Personalized use of such technology have been just starting to gain attention, now you don’t need to be there in your flying machine, in order to fly it or do survey, monitoring or doing some supplies, you can sit back and operate it from a distance and can reach the areas where it’s almost impossible to put your foot. We come across news of drones being used in many areas:

  • For monitoring in military areas.
  • Use of armed drones for firing and attacks.
  • Dropping weapons, bombs, in war zone
  • Reaching flood areas, earthquake affected areas and capturing useful information for disaster management.
  • Dropping food packets, drinking water and much more.
  • Aerial photography

The interesting thing is that when this technology is clubbed with the smartphone applications, it becomes even more powerful and personalized to give more control to the users on their drone devices and utilize this to do more productive things.

Smartphone Solutions and Drones:

Following are some of the applications of the drones along with the smartphone solutions that has a lot of potential and that is going to be the next big thing in technology arena and has potential to change our life.

Delivery of Goods:

  • Think about the drone delivers your pizza order and its path being tracked and controlled by the staff sitting in the restaurant kitchen.
  • Kitchen team is preparing orders and updating status with the iPad that in turn notifying the drone to pick the order along with the address where to be delivered.
  • Amazon has already planning to add prime drone delivery in the future. Drone delivery will save industries loads of money over time in the form of reduced labour and fuel costs, and the environmental impact of lower fuel consumption from delivery trucks is definitely worth noting as well. Amazon isn’t the only company looking into this tech, and other uses of drones though. Once it is proven to be reliable and efficient, you’ll be getting your takeout orders delivered this way as well.

Research & Education:

  • We have seen use of drone mostly in monitoring, wars, spying and only for military use so far. How if the drones can be used in more constructive, productive and educational purposes and studies.
  • Drones clubbed with smartphones or tablets can make studying aerial views, perspective, 3D view, electronics, and gravity much realistic. Researching flood areas, geographical areas, lands, agricultural studies and wildlife study are some of the most common areas where this can be applied and the data can be synced with smartphones and uploaded to cloud for reporting purposes. For kids teachers can cover many physics topics to showcase in real perspective with the help of drones.

Disaster Management and Rescue:

  • Drones can be utilized for disaster management to know the real-time reports of the flood affected, earthquake or storm affected areas, to know the actual situation for getting the right help for the areas. The monitoring drone can send information and reports that disaster management team can analyse and plan.
  • Drones can be used to reach the areas and rescue people stuck in difficult situation such as drowning victims, fire affected areas, where rescue workers face difficulties in reaching out and risk their lives.

Security:

  • There have been a lot of security systems already in place to protect your home or property, however drone provide access and constant monitoring to different areas where the security systems can’t be installed, also security systems are expensive and needs a lot of infrastructure cost and installation required.

Building & Maintenance:

  • Drones can utilize to do the maintenance work on the dangerous areas, old monuments or heritage buildings where there is always been a risk of accidents or risk to the property if heavy machines or workers are deployed.
  • Drones can select and utilize different equipment’s to do the maintenance work.

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