The Growing Uses Of Drone Technology

It is THIS very reason that we started this blog about drones - to share the growing uses and hopefully inspire others to create even more uses. In this article you will learn some of the recent developments that are going to improve and reshape the way many things are done.

With our ever updating modern world we are so fortunate to live in, some things never change. We may change HOW things grow (hydroponics, lighting and watering systems, etc) but plants (veggies) are still plants and require a lot of attention in order to produce the quality and volume needed. Agriculture has always used breaking technology to help them along and currently drones are the new tech in town. Here is a link to an article about Drones Applications In Agriculture from the MIT Review. Basically, they can use the drones with specific sensors to monitor crops, increase their yields and reduce costs. The drones are helping them to be more efficient in their overall production.

It's much the same with the video here from an article about using drones to remove ice from wind turbines which can slow them down so by doing this, they too increase productivity and efficiency with low costs.

Besides these uses, they are being used for search and rescue, roofers, and many more fields. It does not come as that much of surprise to nerds that drones are making many jobs obsolete by being more efficiently done with a drone. On the other side of that coin, there are many NEW jobs already with undoubtedly many more to come as drone pilots, mechanics, and more in order to accommodate these upgrades. I think of it much like how cell phones, airplanes and other inventions have also changed our world and shifted jobs by improving things. There was a time when a person operated telephone switchboards connecting calls now we have people programming phones and other devices rather than connecting them and this is no different overall.

So for others that grew up in the "Nintendo Generation" that were told over and over how playing video games would rot our brains, not so much. In fact, all those video games prepared us for this exactly. Yes, there are of course concerns, especially in the early stages. That's why laws are constantly being implemented and changed as we encounter new dangers alongside the benefits of new tech. I have no doubt that more will come sooner rather than later but that is all the more reason to get educated and get involved. Whether you want to be the pilot or the consumer that uses a drone to make your business more efficient in some way, drones are definitely part of our future and business and jobs involving drones are going to become more and more utilized.

So get out there and get flying, you might just be training for your next job!