There is probably nobody better suited to ask about drones of the future and what we should hope for, expect and think about as consumers and leaders for the world of 2030 than Ben Marcus is the Chairman of AirMap, a company that aims to deliver a four-dimensional version of Google and Ways maps for the sky that will be filled with drones by 2030. Ben’s view is that drones will help solve urban over-crowding, bring services and products to rural areas in ways only big-city dwellers have experiences and also widen or perspectives on personal transportation. Unlike Google/Wayz, the platform will be an autonomous air control system that helps orchestrate in very safe ways how drones of various sizes and with very different purposes navigate the skies above us.
Drones in 2030 will be as common as seeing cars around you on the road.
Terms like middle mile, the last mile, and blood dropped by drones will be common themes, just imagine if drones could have quickly and consistently have inspected the power lines and systems in California for PG&E before the terrible fires that have occurred?
Visualize simplified drones that could be dispatched up the millions of power lines, or the hundreds of thousands of telecommunication towers could save tens of billions of dollars for utility firms. This is the easy part of the description of the future of drones.
The ability to deliver blood to complex regions of Africa or, even as Ben described it, lipstick to somebody with a fashion emergency are all parts of the drone future. By 2030 Ben believes that drones will be as common to us as cars on the road now, and we might be getting four or more drone-delivered items of services each day.
Staff member Georgina Wilson holds a part of a drone during preparations for the delivery of medical ... [+]
There are 1.3 Million registered drones in the US compared to just 300,000 commercial aircraft. We have 10,000 airports that are not being used by major carriers (they only use up to 300). Much of the infrastructure is already in place, and we might call these virtual airports.
Think about packaged as heavy as 5lbs to 10lbs being delivered regularly to near anywhere in the US (home or commercial).
Consumer mindsets around the need for “right now” will fuel drones low weight delivery needs. It will be very competitively priced with the ideaof us getting into our cars for 15 minutes.
Huge increases in what we might call near infrastructure where drones big up products directly from major airports of up to 1,000 lbs and deliver them to local destinations (vertical take-off and landing).
Middle-mile delivery from the airport to a nearby warehouse or small regional delivery (truck or another aircraft) could be the new normal.
BONN, GERMANY - DECEMBER 09: A quadcopter drone arrives with a small delivery at Deutsche Post ... [+]
Unmanned drones capable of delivering 500- 1,000lbs packages will be common, and it will significantly reduce the latency effects we see now.
Cities like Stuttgart, Germany, and Singapore are already delivering human transport systems with clones. Right now, there are over 200 independent projects building systems for human drone transport around the globe.
By 2030 E vehicles will dominate the landscape in ten years.
New vendors in the auto and electronics industry (Nvidia, Intel, Umbrella, etc.). It will be bigger than the traditional aircraft manufacturers in drone construction and infrastructure.
Amazon has IP applications to trade over flight paths needed for the observation rights of consumers.
These are just a few of the realized goals and achievements we can look forward to in the next decade and even before 2030.
