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Drones: Unmanned Aircraft, Unmatched Potential
In
recent years, drones have becoming more and more common to the public.
We can easily acquire them over any toy stores or photography shops, and
they are even offered as free gift for successful credit card
application in Malaysia! According to a PWC study in 2016, the emerging
global market for business services using drones is potentially worth
more than USD$127billion, especially in the infrastructure, agriculture
and transportation industry. UNCTAD in its Technology and Innovation
Report highlighted drones as one of the seven key technologies with
potential contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UNCTAD,
2018).
However,
they do have their fair share of troubles with the authorities, notably
the Gatwick Airport drone incident in December 2018, when over 40
drones sightings were reporting within the 1km of the airport boundary.
The 3 days incident caused major disruptions, affecting over 120,000
passengers and over 700 flights during one of the busiest season of the
year, with financial damages amounting to USD64million and counting.
Regardless,
our belief is we can bring out the very best of the drones if we have a
strong collaborative network between the regulators, public
administrations, academia, industry players and the civil societies in
Malaysia. We even have a local company by the name of Aerodyne currently
occupying the 7th spot in the Global Top 20 Drone Operator Ranking 2018 and the 1st
in Asia, beating Japan, the only other Asia country on the list
(DRONEII, 2018). The future does look bright for us in the drones
business if we take the early initiatives to move it forward. At the
same time, the drones industry will helps in creating new jobs to the
economy with the likes of drone pilots, programmers, maintenance workers
in the foreseeable future.
We
would like to share some drones success stories implemented around the
world and the infographic highlighted some 40 practical uses for drones
in various industries. YS
- Delivering medical and healthcare supplies in Rwanda, London, Lugano and Haiti;
- Environment monitoring by local authorities in US and Japan (tornado storm, volcano activities, open fire burning, providing tsunami warning);
- Telco towers monitoring in Malaysia;
- Drone deliveries for food and products (Amazon in US and Domino’s in New Zealand);
- Fish farming in Japan;
- Increasing agriculture produce in China and the Philippines;
- Search and rescue, crowd monitoring and traffic control by enforcement agencies in US; and
- Supporting the fire and rescue service in Bradford, UK.
Thank you.
FT Insights 3/2019: Technology Trend For 2019.
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