Innovation for innovation spotlight - Drones
Drones are becoming massive at the moment - they
are literally TAKING OFF…
Becoming more affordable, more portable, and more
uses are popping up for them.
Drones as an invention and innovation, have created innovation and have
created so many possibilities for people!
Historically
- Military - Drones can go where humans can't (or shouldn't).
- Disaster monitoring
- Search and rescue - find missing people!
- Deployment of emergency supplies
- Shark monitoring at beaches
Drones for Convenience
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Where before, you would have to lug them around
in a specialised case or backpack, and they would be heavy and not particularly
easy to use, and limited in functionality – NOW, you can get them as small as
the palm of your hand (WITH camera), or fit into your pocket, and the battery
life, functionality, and operating distances have increased significantly!! You
can even operate them just from your smartphone, and watch the camera footage
directly through a VR headset for a first person ‘birds-eye’ view.
Lifting capability
Drones delivering for Amazon (Amazon Prime Air –
Currently in testing phases, though may be in action within the next couple of
years! – USA and UK initially, soft targeted for ~2020).
Delivering pizza for dominoes in New Zealand,
Australia, Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Japan, and Germany (with trials
currently happening in New Zealand!!).
Australia Post is looking into drone delivery for
small parcels and objects!
Filming capability
Drones have been equipped with powerful cameras
which have enabled people to create amazing aerial footage - sweeping over
scenery in a way we just couldn't before (without it being prohibitively
expensive such as with a helicopter). You can get some spectacular footage from
drones, AND you can get right up close to the target object!
Also can be used for selling a property - do a
flyover of the house, to see it from all perspectives!
Another great use of drones is in extreme sports,
with the ability to travel with the athlete, getting right in there with them
and getting amazing footage.
Conclusion
Drones have advanced to a level where they can be
used to enable so much more, and they are allowing people to be more innovative
with processes that have usually required so much more time and money...
Where will drones take us next?
What is the next innovation that will allow for
so much innovation?
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