What Is a Drone?

 What Is a Drone?

What Is a Drone?

What Is a Drone?

By : Jakkir Hussain,

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot onboard. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system, which includes a UAV, a ground-based controller, and a system of communications between the two. The flight of UAVs may operate with various degrees of autonomy, either under remote control by a human operator or autonomously by onboard computers.

Drones are classified into different categories based on the applications. Applications are broad, and from the design perspective, generally fall under three major groups: military, industrial (enterprise), and commercial.

Military

Drones in military applications are used for anti-aircraft target practice, intelligence gathering and, more controversially, as weapons platforms.

Industrial

The integration of drones and IoT (Internet of Things) technology has created numerous industrial and enterprise use cases: drones working with on-ground IOT sensor networks can help agricultural companies monitor land and crops, energy companies survey power lines and operational equipment, and insurance companies monitor properties for claims and/or policies.

Commercial

The commercial field is a growing development, where the largest, strongest, fastest, and most capable drones on the market are targeted toward the professional community. They are the types of machines that the movie industry puts to work and that commercial agencies use to inspect infrastructure. Some impressive self-piloted drones survey individual farmer’s fields. Commercial drones are the smaller consumer products that make up just a tiny portion of the overall drone market. Figure 1-1 shows the form factor of a commercial drone.



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