Commercial Use of Drones

Beyond its use in military expeditions, or security issues, drones have become in a useful tool for different productive purposes.

The drone overcrowding, as well as the reduction of its cost has open a plethora of opportunities for using them in the industrial world. With an estimated world market of $11 million, the use of drones has benefitted particularly to audiovisual world to open new choices to get high definition images, along with the precision agriculture which concentrates around 80% of the use of this tool in its application.

What is a drone?

Drones are an air vehicle that allow to count with a data link (telemetric), real time video link, automatic pilot (robotic), and they present a capacity to integrate functional elements such as cameras or sensors (known as useful load).

Commercial use.

It commercial use for transportation and merchandizing to international level has presented security limits instead of flying autonomy. That is why the next steps will be focusing on overcome those gaps.

In agriculture for example, drones are used apart from building inspections and crop monitoring, on the agrochemical products application, and the soil reforestation thanks to seedtime with compressed air.

Parallel to this, precision agriculture has developed to mix the use of drones with multi-spectral sensors that allows to detect problems on the soil such as, plagues, or lack of irrigation, before they turn into serious problems.

Other use of drones.

Drones can also be used to remote observation with searching and rescue, supervision and cow tracking, supervision and work inspection, energetic audits with air thermography, high-voltage network inspection, forestall fire watch and prevention, animal behavior studies, weather measurement data of environment and atmosphere variables, and even management of inventory stores.

Commercial use.

Imagine receiving your next amazon order through the air? This will be a reality soon within the United States.

An American judge has given way for the use of drones for commercial purposes. Great news for the whole sector related to logistics, filming and aerial recording with drones.

The sentence is based on the fine that a young man received when using a drone to film a report in his university. Once the case has been studied, the judge takes advantage of the great legal vacuum in which these vehicles are still immersed in order to acquit the youth and to dictate the law for the use of drones for commercial purposes.

Amazon.

Its founder, Jeff Bezos, has announced that his company is testing drones that could deliver orders to destinations in half an hour. These drones could carry packages of up to 2.5 kilograms, so they would cover 86% of orders placed on Amazon.

This project would help people stop seeing drones as a war object, and begin to take into account the possibilities drones have, and how they can help us.