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By Susan Schreiner
Tech
C 4 T R E N DS
Eyes in the
Sky
The Yuneec
Typhoon
D
Courtesy of Yuneec
rones are about to soar in the hobbyist and commercial
sectors due to recent FAA rule changes that will ease
restrictions for people and companies looking to fly
drones. The number of drones sold grew 224 percent
from April 2015 to April 2016, according to The NPD Group's
Retail Tracking Service. The 2015 holiday season was a big driver
with drone unit sales increasing 445
percent from the 2014 holiday season.
By 2017 unit volumes in the hobbyist
market is expected to be much larger than
either the military or the civil market, with
popular hobbyist drones selling 100,000
or more units.
Cutting-edge smartphone technology is
a key catalyst in driving the drone industry
from companies like Qualcomm with
its Snapdragon platform. The cost of
MEMS, accelerometers and gyroscopes
has dropped 10- to 100-fold, while
cheap and powerful microcontrollers are
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enabling low-cost and powerful navigational control systems encouraging a surge
in drones from companies like DJI, 3D
Robotics, Airdog and Autel.
With next-generation sensors, IoT and
high-bandwidth communications, drones
are now data gathering platforms used by
construction, agriculture, oil and gas, security, transport and filmmaking industries.
Emerging advances in exponential technologies, batteries and material sciences
will continue to make drones smarter,
cheaper, more reliable, safer to operate and
ultimately ubiquitous.
A Mega Tech Trend
Many of the emerging drone breakthroughs
are the result of converging expertise
across sectors. As a result of the fusion
of AI, robotics, VR, material sciences and
computational capabilities doubling,
morphing and combining drone capabilities are steering towards the next
tipping point.
Computer vision, 'sense-and-avoid' and
optical tracking will soon become standard
in consumer drones. Currently, drones are
either manually or GPS piloted, but as they
integrate into our fabric they'll need true
autonomy. Recently, for instance, Intel
acquired itseez, a computer vision and
machine learning specialist.
Breakthroughs in machine vision and
deep machine learning are emerging
as powerful technologies for extracting
insights from data, including internet
searches, audio signals and images.
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