10 Things to know about drones

If you are new and curious about Drones or UAV (Unmanned aerial vehicle) technology then, you are on right stop. Here, I have gather my some of the basic Question answer which I have given on different social media platform. I have combine them with some modification, maybe it will help you to get a basic idea about this emerging technology:

What is Drone? In a very simple manner:

A flying computer without a pilot.

Now imagine the power of a computer which if flying:) Imagine what it can do?

Reason of recent surge in commercial drone Tech?

Technically Miniautirization enable drone assembling easy and hobbyist took some great works from it. Now giant company trying hard to excel in this industry. Its not future actually, its present and you have endless possibility to use this technology in numerous fields. Consider the example of Rwanda where it is delivering the vaccine to remote areas as there are not good road infrastructure.

It means drones are important? How drones are using for business?

Yes, drones are important, there is a growing demand about drone acquired data in day to day in numerous business operations and for instance, you can also check this:

CyPhy | Persistent Aerial Solutions
Flyability — Safe Drones for Inaccessible Places
Kespry Automated Drone System | Kespry

And there are many more, just google it, Google Project Wing, DHL drone, Amazon Prime air etc.You will discover new facts and dimensions that how the tech giants, medium business and even small business are using it and providing different drone based services.

What activities Drones are able to do?

Yesterday I red this article [Drones and robots are taking over industrial inspection] and this is absolute answer to your this question. I want to share one of valueable excerpt of it: The effort shows how low-cost drones and robotic systems—combined with rapid advances in machine learning—are making it possible to automate whole sectors of low-skill work. While there is plenty of worry about the automation of jobs in manufacturing and offices, routine security and safety inspections may be one of the first big areas to be undermined by advances in AI.

Important Companies to Watch for commercial drones:

IMO (Personally not much idea about it but)!

DJI

3D Robotics

Parrot

Usually Drones batteries are short how to make its life longer?

I am not a lithium battery expert but once i saw a research paper that has suggested automatic battery replace in drone and thanks to google I retrieve that paper again here is the title "Endless Flyer: A Continuous Flying Drone with Automatic Battery Replacement". Hope that it will help. Remember, I didn’t read the study completely and think that using more than one battery automatically currently not supported and it can be a costly solution. Further, it can increase the weight of a drone because battery are one of the most weighted component in a drone that can affect its flying and control capability.

Programming languages for Drone Application Development

It depends upon the brand of drone that you are using, like most famous brands/companies provide proper developer portal, API, SDKs etc. For example

DJI Developer

DroneKit by 3D Robotics

Parrot for Developers

You should check your drone brand and act accordingly.

Reason to Regulate Commercial Drone?

Because

Air space is not for free for all. It has also occupied by Manned Air Vehicles too.

Safety, security and privacy is important, and we want to know that which drone violated your privacy?, which drone has fall on the road or which drone has damage the Power station?, Which drone is flying legally or illegally?.

There is registration Require for my drone?

This thing is completely dependent upon the country rules and regulation about the drone technology. For example USA don’t categorize drones based on its power source (like fuel or battery) but it depend upon weight of the drone like FAA rule that You need to register your aircraft if it weighs between 0.55 lbs.(250 grams) and up to 55 lbs. (25 kg)