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 How to Drones Works 

The most famous form of drone — the popular GoPro — is usually shot using an iPhone, iPod touch, or even a laptop. 

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An earlier generation of drones flew with attached propellers for slightly heavier rig. They could barely stay in the air and showed a shape that was roughly three-dimensional.

 Around a decade later, you can purchase a $7,000 DJI Quark, and a drone can carry a payload of up to 50 pounds (almost 80 kg) and help photographers record more cinematic footage.

First Look

A drone made using traditional rotary motors that has some controllable wings and is lifted by a propeller. Injecting gasoline into a tank requires some $400 or more. 

So what makes drones so different? Why do they differ so completely from the tiny portable phones we get in our hands today?

Here’s a look at what makes a drone a drone.

How to describe a drone, but not one in a way that people will see it as a third-rate drone? Actually, it’s best to call them smart robots with specialized cameras and sensors. 

That way the physical attributes of the aircraft, such as metal or metal-bending, are reduced to almost nothing.

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There are two main approaches to choosing what parameters to optimize in a drone. In most cases, the autopilot will do all the programming. 

To make sure the aircraft only takes the selected route, the pilot must program the right altitudes for the flight. 

For example, a pilot can set the vehicle’s cruising altitude and an altitude below it just in case there’s a crash.

A pilot is also responsible for choosing whether to use autopilot or manual mode. In experiments, Air Transport World (ATW) has used the latter as the default method, but when approaching the minimum altitude controls and aiming to make sure the landing gear is retracted, autopilot saves time and airspeed.

Aerial Extrapolation

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Why is “drone technology” attracting so much investment?

The reason tech companies are investing so much in drones is this: it represents to them a huge market for what they hope to own. 

The same goes for investors. The more venture capitalists I talk to, the more I hear them pin their investments to “commercial applications”. Especially with newly-funded startups like Airware.

But is “drone technology” a market for tech companies?

This is the most important question for investors, startups, etc.

It is not hard to figure out. A few phrases often pop up in discussions like “the whole drone market”, “drone delivery market”, and “smart city”.

Every single one of these phrases has one thing in common: it is a carefully-focused market for all industry verticals.

A book — The Visionary Philosophers of Society (1952-1963) — has a thesis statement, which essentially states that the problems in society come from a wide disparity in wealth. We should aim to bring wealth into better balance.

I find this a great thought-provoking thesis. However, without seeing how each industry is being impacted by drones, I am not convinced to back many startups. Here’s why.

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For starters, it’s too soon to tell how business models will evolve. Why would someone invest now if they don’t have revenue drivers coming up next year?

Drones’s “elevated end-user” in traditional industries like real estate, construction, shopping malls, transport, so many other verticals — those verticals won’t evolve their technology quickly enough. 

Too many applications are too specialized, and many of those verticals will hold too much value to be opened up for competition.

What the problem areas will be in the next 5–10 years?

The next 5–10 years will be the “Fix-it” phase for these verticals. There will be enough trouble spots identified in verticals like buildings, where it will be a huge challenge to develop scalable technology. Look at building construction and manufacturing…

People will be more comfortable sharing their big data to businesses. The past decade has been a huge success in this regard. 

This generation will go from being leery about sharing data with businesses, to wanting to share all their data for the first time.

 I see restaurants already profiting heavily through their strong use of AI in the last mile delivery space.

Tech, and particularly AI technology, will improve and offer solutions for inefficient processes and gate keeping processes. These problems are companies’ problem right now. They’re not the tech.

Every country will turn to drones for transport. It’s too soon to tell how many countries will build new drone ports, or how they will use drones for freight. 

But people everywhere will look for solutions. Try making a snack for your customers in India in five minutes — it’s too early to tell. But you can bet startups will provide solutions and funding will follow.

Predictions for 2021

The focus will begin to shift from verticals and towards more generalized problems. Not always the same solution for every single problem, but the solutions will become more standardized. 

Teams will treat drones as sensors or robotics, and not as a scary blue machine that may land on you at any time. 

Things like long distance drone delivery (no tethered connector on the drone) will decrease costs and impact to the sector in general.

That brings us back to where we began. Venture capital and startups’ decision-making processes should focus more on what we call “leverages”. 

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When we look at industry verticals across the board, you see problems and benefits that can fit at the intersection of multiple different products and services. 

Like diverse players working on the business fundamentals, things like changing the mindset around focus, investing to address disparate problems in huge business models, being data driven, and so on will all matter in 2021.

To have an impact, your impact has to be a “killer app”. An amazing solution which helps others improve as they use it. It’s up to us to find those solutions and apply our inputs across verticals.