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Personalized ‘Smart Drones’ for Every Home

A couple of years ago the big news was that Amazon was preparing to test the use of drones to deliver their goods to your home – a service known as Amazon Prime Air. Sounded great, but the idea quickly ran into a myriad of technical, legal, and operational issues that will take many years to overcome. Thankfully, that has given us time to reimagine the whole process and come up with other alternatives.


As time has passed, a number of new features and capabilities of drones may have turned the proposed home delivery idea by Amazon on its head. Instead of each company developing a fleet of drones to deliver their products to your home, it now appears more feasible for every home to have its own drone that will do a wide range of things for the homeowner, from shopping to home security.

Think about it! During a typical week, people put together a shopping list of things to pick up sometime during the week from the local supermarket or drug store. Then you set aside an hour or two to get in your car and go buy and pick up the items on your list. Several times each week you might also go to the drive-in window of a fast food restaurant to pick up dinner.

Now, imagine sending your home drone to go do these tasks. Several times a week your personal ‘smart drone’ will be directed to check your shopping list, transmit the list to the local supermarket and/or drug store, then heads over to the ‘fly-in’ platform at the store to pick up your order, then deliver it back home. When the drone returns, it will land on its docking station where it will recharge and also check to see what other instructions you have sent to it.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Now imagine some of the many other tasks your personal ‘smart drone’ can do for you around your home. It could be programmed to fly around your home at periodic intervals for surveillance purposes, e.g. Aire, Sunflower Labs. It could be used to check your roof for damage after storms. It could keep an eye on your children playing outside, and it could … So many possibilities.



Do we really need fleets of drones from every company trying to deliver products to your home? Your personal ‘smart drone’ knows where your home is, will receive its instructions from your home computer system, and will do your bidding based on your orders and daily schedule. It will be interesting to see which approach finally wins out. Learn more about current ‘delivery drones’.
 
 
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