Social distancing has become the new normal for us since the pandemic hit. Because of this, we have needed to find alternative ways to get deliveries and medical supplies to consumers other than your typical human contact delivery methods. Drone-based services are offering deliveries through the sky, which gives us the best of both worlds right now – getting a delivery but staying safe without using any human contact. Businesses have been able to stay afloat by taking advantage of this new way of delivery by using these drone-based services to get right to people’s doorsteps. It’s a new way to transport items and it’s only just beginning.
- Drone-based services offering medical supplies and food deliveries.
- How we can keep job sites and materials accounted for.
- We need regulations in place to assure the safety of people and drone operations.
Construction sites that have been shut down due to the pandemic still have millions of dollars of materials exposed and unprotected from the elements on the job sites. The companies have already been using drones for marketing their developments, so why wouldn’t they use them during the pandemic to keep an eye on their materials. This is helping to keep people safe, monitor their job site materials, and is essential to any potential insurance claims. Architects are using drones to map out more specific floor plans for buildings to know exact trees on the site to help determine how tall the buildings need to be seen from certain points.
Granted, there is still a need for regulations for drones to allow them to fly safely over people, beyond-visual-line-of-sight, and at night to fully reap the commercial and societal benefits of drones. This pandemic is pushing us one step closer to being able to use unmanned drones more in our future.
It is not a matter of if drones will ever become a regular way of transport and other ways of conducting business, it is simply a matter of when. Link to the full article
