IoT Drones
Guidebook to the tools, software and applications for Internet enabled drones.
Drones acting as sensor devices open up a large number of Internet of Things applications in agriculture, mining operations and industrial inspection services.
11/01/2019
Companies & Projects
MATTERNET
Matternet ONE is the first smart drone for transportation. Send things through the air — magically, with the touch of a button. Matternet ONE...
ARIA (AUTONOMOUS ROADLESS INTELLIGENT ARRAY)
The potential of this autonomous infrastructure can radically transform the delivery of goods globally, thus accelerating economic growth and...
UAV SMARTHUB
"A revolutionary system that converges professional "UAV as a Service" with the "Internet of Things" (IoT)."
H3 DYNAMICS
UAV SmartHub - H3 Dynamics is a Singaporean industry leader for energy storage, advanced robotics, field communications, and real-time analytics...
Control:
- UgCS - We create easy-to-use software for mission planning and execution for all types of unmanned vehicles.
Mapping:
- DroneDeploy - "Automate drone flight & explore map data directly from your app."
Data Platform:
- AT&T M2X - "AT&T M2X has solutions that can scale to millions of connected devices. Whatever your drones are tasked with, M2X can support all your data and connectivity needs."
- Ocotblu: Use the Octoblu Platform with Drones!
Software
- Cylon.js "A JavaScript framework for robotics, physical computing, and the Internet of Things. It makes it incredibly easy to command robots and devices. Support for Bebop, ARDrone."
Examples
Agriculture Drones
- See our Smart Farming Channel for more details on drone mapping and planting
Smartwatch drone control
A trio of Sony engineers (Peter Bartos, Alexander Najafi and Jonas Hellström) recently demonstrated this phenomena with their mashup project for controlling a quadcopter drone with a smartwatch and some prototype eyewear.
Drawing on the accelerometer in the SmartWatch 2, the drone’s movement is controlled by the tilt and twist of the wearer’s wrist. The SmartEyeglass prototype displays flight data and can even show images from the drone’s camera.
Both the watch and the glasses are paired over Bluetooth to a mobile device, which passes flight instructions to the drone over Wi-Fi.
The engineers published open-source code and a tutorial for replicating the project.
See it in action in the video below.
Additional resources
Background Articles:
- Economist: An internet of airborne things - 1/2012
- Wired: Will Internet Access Via Drones Ever Fly?
- sUAS News: Why Drones Are the Future of the Internet of Things - Colin Snow 1/12/ 2014
- LightReading: Drones Hover Over the IoT Sector - 10/23/2014
- NetworkWorld: Drones are part of the Internet of Things, drone maker says - 9/25/2015
- RTInsights: What’s Up with the IoT and Drones? - David Linthicum
- PTC - Drones IoT's Killer App for Commerce?
- CIO: Farmers Insurance eyes drones, Internet of Things - 1/4/2016
- Symmetry Electronics: Drones and the IoT: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. - 3/28/2016
Security Related:
Presentations:
- Why Drones are the Future of IoT - Skylogic Research - 11/2014
Websites
