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* Service industry in this area is expected to increase
 
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* Autonomy is necessary to keep personal costs down
 
* Autonomy is necessary to keep personal costs down
* Need to get goverments on board, e.g. via disaster management applications
 
* Need of trade association handling regulation at a level between goverment and individual users
 
 
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* work on internationally accepted rules
 
* work on internationally accepted rules
 
* introduction of new rules might kill businesses
 
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Revision as of 15:04, 8 July 2013

Application Scenarios

  • Flying on private property
    • industrial areas
    • mining industry (build 3D models of mining area)
    • agriculture (counting sheep)
  • Disaster Management
    • contamination monitoring
    • Setting up an ad-hoc communication management
    • Search missions
    • Delivering goods
  • security applications
  • blue light services (police, ambulance, firefighters)

Single UAV vs Multi-UAV

  • probably no large markets for multi-UAVs
  • critical question: cost of multi-UAV system vs. single UAV system

Business Models

  • Toy business
  • Manufacturers are expected to be thinned out in the next few years
  • Service industry in this area is expected to increase
  • Autonomy is necessary to keep personal costs down
  • Pictures from sports events

Regulation

  • different regulations for different countries
  • a business model that works for one country might not be possible in another one
  • work on internationally accepted rules
  • introduction of new rules might kill businesses
  • Need to get goverments on board, e.g. via disaster management applications
  • Need of trade association handling regulation at a level between goverment and individual users

Companies