Diverse Dedicated Uses of Smart Solutions

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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced companies around the world to rethink their strategies to account for multiple contingencies; from reducing or minimizing human contacts to migration to remote systems and methods. One thing for sure is that the pandemic has made humans and businesses adapt to the uncertainty, the risks, the government mandates & regulations, and more. Commenting on the effects of the pandemic; Klaus Schwab, the founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum said, "COVID-19 has accelerated our transition into the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We have to make sure that the new technologies in the digital, biological and physical world remain human-centred and serve society as a whole, providing everyone with fair access.”

With technological developments going faster, across a much broader scope, and impacting more systems than ever; the Fourth Industrial Revolution affects almost every single industry imaginable. As the lines between the physical, digital, and biological continue to blur; the gap between humans and technologies also closes as the presence of semiconductors covered in metal and plastic become ever more ubiquitous. At the same time, unexpected results might come from ingenious usage of existing technologies and developing them to serve a more diverse purpose.

More than A Delivery System

Commercial and civilian use drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are commonly used as a way to take pictures and videos or as a way to deliver certain objects to a designated destination. Drones are generally single-purpose tools that excel in their designed and designated purpose. As technologies develop, the scope of their single-purpose continues to grow. In other words, the drones would be able to do more different things, but they would continue to focus on their one thing.

In COMPUTEX CYBERWORLD, an exhibitor of the APICTA Award Smart Solutions Pavilion: Droxo Technology focused their drone solutions for agriculture use to spray liquids of different types, including water and pesticide. The drone would be able to help farmers improve their operational efficiency as the material can be applied when and where needed more accurately. In addition, as the drones will be flying, it may also help farmers take care of crops in areas of higher altitude or even in further areas that might be too difficult to reach for daily care processes.

While research companies differ in their opinion of the potential value of drones; from USD 36 billion in 2030 to as high as USD 501.4 billion in 2028; it is clear that drones and UAVs will continue to grow in value and as potential attachments or accessories are developed.

Vision Based Superiority

Humans generally rely on sight to scan their surroundings and assess threats or dangers. For machines, visual data might not be as vital as other perceptible data that can be processed more efficiently & accurately. However, visual data has its own advantages for machines. According to Genesis Systems>, the main advantages of machine vision enabled machinery: flexibility, reliability, and adjustability. also listed increased productivity, improved quality, and lower production & capital equipment costs among the benefits of machine vision.

For outdoors moving machines or robots such as UAVs, machine vision will also provide an added benefit of improved safety. When the UAVs operate in the air, there is a chance that unexpected objects will fly into them or having to avoid projectiles from deliberate sabotage attempts. In this aspect, visual sensors such as cameras will be necessary and the more sophisticated the camera, the better. The 3D cameras developed by LIPS Corporation might be able to serve as the improved eyes for UAV. Combined with various capabilities; both built-in or customized; the 3D cameras would be able to improve operational safety, efficiency, and provide additional capabilities as needed by the users.

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