drones 101

by Amos Tay

Drones 101

Outline of slides

1. What is a drone/UAV?

2. Drone applications

3. Virtual fencing?

4. CAAS guidelines to fly a drone in Singapore

What is a drone/UAV?

Dynamic

Remotely

Operated

Navigation

Equipment

Unmanned

Aerial

Vehicle

What is a drone/UAV?

- It is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard.

- Originated mostly in military applications, although their use is expanding in commercial, scientific, recreational, agricultural, and other applications,[3] such as policing and surveillance, aerial photography, agriculture and drone racing

- Civilian drones now vastly outnumber military drones, with estimates of over a million sold by 2015.

- Read the History of UAVs here.

Types of drone/UAV users

- Military users

- Commercial users

- Hobbyists

How do drones work?

Drone applications

Rescue

Ambulance Drones

CPR machine on-the-go

Delivery

Delivery Drones

Singpost delivers mail from Singapore main island to Pulau Ubin

Agricultural industry

Agricultural Drones

Agricultural aerial mapping and spraying technologies

Light shows

Light shows

500 Drones

Disneyland Drone Show Preview

Sky Magic @ Mt Fuji

Film-making

Cinematography with drones

Short film titled “The Circle”

Cinematography with drones - behind the scenes

Watch how they have created the short film using drone technology

Racing

Racing Drones

World’s First $1 Million Drone Race

Futuristic Transportation

Passenger Flight

Drones to transport humans

And of course,

Education

STEM

Drones in formal education

Summary of drone applicationsAmbulance Drones

Burrito Delivery

5 amazing ideas of drone uses

Domino Pizza Delivery

Amazon Delivery Service

Singpost Alpha Drone Delivery Trial

Agricultural uses

Education Passenger Flights

Drone Racing

Light shows Film-making

The Good The Bad

Firefighting and human rescue

Passenger flights Suicide Drones

Delivery services Policing Security Threats

Buying and selling houses/commercial properties

Wildlife conservation Spying and monitoring

Defence

Virtual fencing?

Geofencing SystemsA geo-fence is a virtual perimeter for a real-world geographic area.

A geo-fence could be dynamically generated—as in a radius around a store or point location, or a geo-fence can be a predefined set of boundaries, like school attendance zones or neighborhood boundaries.

It has been suggested that government regulators should encourage drone manufacturers to build geofencing constraints into unmanned aerial vehicle navigation systems that would override the commands of the unsophisticated operator, preventing the device from flying into protected airspace.

Geofencing Systems

CAAS (Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore) guidelines

Retrieved from http://www.caas.gov.sg/caas/en/ANS/unmanned-aircraft.html

CAAS (Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore) guidelines

Retrieved from http://www.caas.gov.sg/caas/en/ANS/unmanned-aircraft.html

CAAS (Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore) Area Limits Map

Retrieved from http://www.caas.gov.sg/caas/en/ANS/area-limits.html

Thank you! Hope you have learnt a

bit more about drones/UAVs.

Other resources

Onboard drone delivery footage from Singapore to Pulau Ubin

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/05/23/how-drone-technology-is-changing-our-lives-the-good-the-bad-and/

http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-drones-snap-story.html