IOT BASED DRONES
INTRODUCTION: Unmanned aircraft systems
(UAS), or drones as they are often called, are
increasingly available online and on store shelves.
Prospective operators—from consumers to
businesses—want to fly and fly safely, but many
don’t realize that, just because you can easily acquire
a UAS. The FAA’s final rule for small, unmanned
aircraft went into effect on August 29, 2016. It
provides specific safety regulations for non-
recreational use of unmanned aircraft weighing less
than 55 pounds. That means UAS users who want to
fly for commercial use (such as providing aerial
surveying or photography services) or fly incidental
to a business (such as performing roof inspections or
real estate photography) must follow certain
regulations.
Drones have made the news lately because of their
ability to fly in fairly tight spaces, carrying cameras
or dangerous payloads. With all of these camera-
equipped drones flying in the sky, the public has been
freaking out a bit over privacy concerns. The FAA
has also been concerned about the potential damage
that drones can cause to people and property.
The rise of drones has not escaped the commercial
world. Back in 2013, Amazon stated that it wanted to
leverage drones to deliver packages in record time.
The government has been leveraging drones—radio-
controlled and autonomous—for years. Of course,
there are thousands of people out there who leverage
drones for aerial photography applications. The
movie and TV industries find drones to be a
cheap way to get some amazing shots without
renting a full-sized helicopter.
FACTS ABOUT DRONE:
 Only the police and the military use
drones but Drone uses have expanded.
Many civilians fly them these days. Modern
ones like the DJI Phantom 3 or the Niño
QX bring joy to many avid hobbyists
 All drones have weapons .Not all drones
do. Drones help people in many ways.
While some drones have military uses,
others are used for photography and other
purposes.
 Drones cannot stay in the air for long.
Lightweight drones like the Blade Nano QX
or the Hubsan X4 cannot remain in the air
for more than 10 minutes.
 Israel was the first country to build
drones. The first country to manufacture
drones was Israel. Israel Aerospace
Industries has production facilities about 24
countries around the world.
 . Some industry players call these vehicles
UAVs, and others, RPAS (Remotely Piloted
Aircraft Systems). They feel that RPAS are
different because a pilot controls them from
a distant location.
 FUTURE OF IOT-DRONES:
Drone technology is evolving very rapidly. Drones
are already beginning to efficiently replace the
connected sensors at rest with one device that is:
1. deployable to different locations
2. capable of carrying flexible payloads
3. re-programmable in mission
4. Able to measure just about anything,
anywhere.
All drones are not equal. Some like
the Global Hawk are very complex
systems that are connected to satellites
and are only the purview of the military.
Others like the Parrot A.R. Drone are
mass-produced hobby aircraft that you
can control with your mobile device. But
a class of drones in the middle
combines the capabilities of both
complex and mass-produced systems
and is specifically designed for
commercial purposes. These drones
weight less than 55 lbs. and are
classified by regulatory entities as small
unmanned aircraft systems or sUAS.
We don’t see their ubiquitous use in the
U.S. quite yet, but in countries like
England, Australia, and France, you will
find them operating in energy, mining,
mapping, and surveying companies –
and quite a few government agencies
like those responsible for transportation
and infrastructure. Commercial drones
are truly ‘unmanned aircraft systems’.
They are not just remote controlled
aircraft. They require many things in
order to run, like avionics, ground
control stations, communication
systems, data collection and processing
software, and of course GPS for geo-
referencing. There’s more, but you get
the idea. These are multifaceted
complex vehicles whose mission is to fly
sensors and collect data. Commercial
drones are also connected devices. So
they are ‘things in motion’. Most are
accessible or controllable over the
Internet, and the data they collect is
pushed to various cloud services. Some
drones are beginning to carry on-board
processors as well and are now part of
the growing trend of fog
computing devices.
CHALLENGES DUE TO DRONE:
Privacy infrastructure: Privacy
infrastructure assuming that technical
challenges related to drones and
localization can be addressed
eventually, drone-based privacy
interfaces need to be provided with
information about data practices and
information flows in the smart
environment. Privacy systems and
infrastructure are required to detect and
model information flows between
sensors and devices. A potential
approach is the specification of data
practices in machine-readable privacy
policies and their distribution in the
smart environment, which would not
only enable drone-based privacy
interfaces, but device-independent
privacy awareness and control tools in
general... While much focus has been
placed on expressing data practices in
machine-readable formats, exposing
control APIs, user choices, and privacy
settings to other systems is an equally
important challenge. Creating
infrastructures that can collect and
exchange privacy relevant information
about devices in a smart environment or
an individual’s vicinity would enable the
aggregation of privacy settings and
privacy management functionality for
multiple devices in a consistent
interface, which may be drone based,
but 3 could also be provided on a tablet,
mobile device, wall display or computer.
Such aggregation of privacy information
and settings would facilitate
contextualized privacy decision making
support and has the potential to reduce
user-burden by providing user’s
personal recommendations and
automating certain privacy decisions
and setting configuration for the user.
NEXT UPDATE: We are only
beginning to find out how drones can be
used to replace multiple sensors. Surely
this technology will push the bounds of
how we can measure and analyze
‘things at rest’ and ‘things in motion’ and
how they can interact with both of them.