Drone in Retail Sector

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 Drones
Drones: formally known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)

Once reserved for sci-fi movies and high-tech war efforts, drones are quickly
becoming part of the broader landscape.

Drones are generally defined as unmanned aircraft. They come in all shapes,
sizes and prices, from $100 toys the size of a baseball to multi-million dollar
military machines the size of a vehicle. While drones have been around for
years, new technology has made them easier to operate and cheaper than
ever.
Types of Drone
Fixed-wing Drone

Rotary-wing Drone

Micro-UAVs

Biomimetic UAV

Blimps or balloons
Drone and its uses
Military

Civilian

Real estate agents use them to capture property photos and construction
companies fly them to track progress on job sites.
Drones are being used in Africa to survey wildlife populations
Drone in retailing
Drones can help retailers in ways they’ve never imagined, from site selection
and store design to security, building science and logistics.

The machines have other applications in retail, many of which are already
happening. Because they’re easily operated and can put a camera hundreds of
feet in the air, drones are being deployed in site selection and facility planning.

They’re being used by planners, developers and real estate firms to obtain real-
time aerial surveys of land and see properties and buildings from almost any
angle and elevation.
Retailers could use drones to select sites, plan store design, analyze
traffic patterns, obtain more precise maps and better monitor all
aspects of the development of a retail location.

They could certainly be used on the security side for scoping out
parking lots as well as in distribution centers and facilities
Applications
Amazon’s effort offers a vision for new opportunities in distribution,
and it’s already moving forward outside of the United States.
DHL Parcel started delivering medications via drone to the remote
German island of Juist last year
Dominoes tested drone for delivery of pizza
United Arab Emirates is working on a system to use drones
to transport government documents
Google is also testing a drone delivery system in the Australian
outback
DHL
German delivery firm DHL has beaten the
tech firms to the post, announcing a regular drone delivery service for the
first time, nine months after it launched its “parcelcopter” research
project in December 2013
This service uses an autonomous quadcopter to deliver small parcels to
the German island of Juist, a sandbar island 12km into the North Sea from
the German coast, inhabited by 2,000 people.
Deliveries includes medication and other goods that may be “urgently
needed”
Amazon
 Amazon wants to use drones in its Prime Air service to make small
deliveries to customers’ doorsteps within 30 minutes, but rules proposed
last month by the Federal Aviation Administration will likely preclude that
type of usage in the United States for the foreseeable future

Amazon is, in many respects, primed for success in such a market,

especially with the creation of its Prime Air drone delivery platform. In
March, Amazon completed its first public demonstration of drone
deliveries, ferrying sunscreen to attendees at an Amazon-hosted
conference in California.
They collaborated with Flytrex successfully rolled out a drone delivery
service with the Ukranian postal service to deliver goods up to 1kg (2.2
pounds) over 23km (14.3 miles).

The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) published new regulations for

commercial drones in August last year.

Under the new rules, operators can’t fly drones higher than 400 feet, or at
night. The drones must also weigh less than 55 pounds ,a rule that prohibits
any kind of long-distance drone use, including basic delivery.
Amazon India

Amazon Prime Air might first be tested in

Indian cities like Mumbai and Bangalore

Amazon might still be struggling to get a nod from US authorities for its drone
delivery service but in Economic Times report it is stated that the online retail giant
could start the service in India first
These drones will be able to carry a package up to 2.3kgs in weight. The drones
are essentially Octocopters or 8-rotor helicopters which will sit at the end of the
conveyor belt waiting to pick up the package.

Amazon’s idea is to deliver any small product within 30 minutes, thereby saving
all the packaging and shipping costs. The patent the company has applied for
caters to the safety of the drone.

In June, Amazon had filed a patent application in India for a technology which to
ensure that automated aerial vehicles (AAVs) do not hit humans or animals while
delivering packages. The AAV could also communicate with other such air-borne
objects in the area and share information related to obstacles and weather
conditions.
Conclusion
While drones are unlikely to become a part of our daily lives in the
immediate future, they will soon begin taking on much larger roles for
businesses and some individual consumers, from delivering groceries to
revolutionizing private security, to changing the way farmers manage their
crops, perhaps even aerial advertising

The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) believes there will be around

20,000 drones in the sky by 2017, although some say that figure will be
much higher
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