DRONE KNOWLEDGE ARTICLE OF THE MONTH:

I. Drones To Transport Organs, Supplies Between Hospitals In India:

1. The Drone ports in hospitals can allow quick transportation of harvested organs to recipients.
2. The Drone Regulations 1.0 have been formulated as an all-digital process, with a Digital Sky platform in order to put in place a system that is totally online.
3. This Digital Sky platform will be the first national unmanned traffic management platform that implements ‘no permission, no takeoff’ for remotely piloted aircraft.
4. Under the new policy for remotely piloted aircraft, India could be using the drones for transporting organs and other emergency medical supplies between hospitals.
5. The government is examining the possibility of creating “drone ports” in hospitals to permit this kind of transportation.

II. Construction Sector May Need 2.5lakh Drone Operators Soon:

1. To begin with, the ECI-PwC report has said that highways, roads, bridges, and housing will take the lead in the usage of drones.
2. Drones can bring in efficiency and eliminate redundancies as the report said.
3. The adoption of drones is surging at 239 percent in this sector.
4. Builders can deploy drones on job sites around the world to enhance safety.
5. It enables precise planning, generates 3D maps, it also documents and understands the progress at sites and identifies potential issues before they begin costing dearly.
6. Drones can be deployed to conduct safer, faster, and accurate inspections.
7. They can be used on a construction project, where new hazards are a recurrent feature.