New Delhi: What will it take for drones and other Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to develop into flourishing, future-oriented economic systems? As leaders across the world scramble to respond to this fundamental question, it may be India that answers the best. The type of indigenous growth required to lead the next era of aerospace will result from economic innovation and India has just the right mix of the three main elements needed to stimulate this.
To take advantage of autonomous aviation technologies there must be an important societal need that drones can help meet in a unique and cost-effective way. In India, we've already seen record drought create a dramatic need for even more effective use of potable water and increasingly more granular monitoring of agricultural impact on groundwater resources. The agricultural use of drones is still finding its footing, but local affiliates and start-ups such as Terra Drone India have already demonstrated the benefits that drones can provide. In a clear indication that the government sees drones as a tool to solve societal challenges, the State of Maharashtra and Survey India, the national mapping agency of the country under the Ministry of Science and Technology, recently committed to mapping 40,000 villages using drones to "fix locations of village boundaries, canals, canal limits, and road".
Beyond environmental monitoring and water management, supply chain and last-mile delivery service providers in the health industry have begun to experiment with drones in India. As a minister from the Ministry of Civil Aviation explains, "One of the applications for drones that has come forward is an application to transport organs () so that is something that we have discussed with a large hospital company that is transporting organs right now and has found it to be very difficult to transport organs, given how crowded Indian streets are."
03/10/19 Harrison Wolf/India Today
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To take advantage of autonomous aviation technologies there must be an important societal need that drones can help meet in a unique and cost-effective way. In India, we've already seen record drought create a dramatic need for even more effective use of potable water and increasingly more granular monitoring of agricultural impact on groundwater resources. The agricultural use of drones is still finding its footing, but local affiliates and start-ups such as Terra Drone India have already demonstrated the benefits that drones can provide. In a clear indication that the government sees drones as a tool to solve societal challenges, the State of Maharashtra and Survey India, the national mapping agency of the country under the Ministry of Science and Technology, recently committed to mapping 40,000 villages using drones to "fix locations of village boundaries, canals, canal limits, and road".
Beyond environmental monitoring and water management, supply chain and last-mile delivery service providers in the health industry have begun to experiment with drones in India. As a minister from the Ministry of Civil Aviation explains, "One of the applications for drones that has come forward is an application to transport organs () so that is something that we have discussed with a large hospital company that is transporting organs right now and has found it to be very difficult to transport organs, given how crowded Indian streets are."
03/10/19 Harrison Wolf/India Today
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