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オリジナルFlying objects that prevent cheating in the air and dance with dancers-- Drones "drones" are now a developing technology. Amazon announced that it will be used for merchandise distribution. As a background of technological innovation, people's expectations are getting higher and higher. On the other hand, the fall and fierce conflict between the Prime Minister's official residence and Jilu City have also been reported, and there are also security issues. Kobayashi Kobayashi, a business consultant at Hitachi Consulting and author of the Business impact of drones, said he was looking forward to the possibility of such drones, which is an "industrial revolution in the sky." (Yahoo! Newsroom / THE PAGE)
Of course, the business community will also pay attention to drones that contain all kinds of possibilities. According to the growth forecast of the market related to drones conducted by the research company seed Project, with regard to "industrial drone helicopters", there was a market of 1.6 billion yen in Japan in 2015 and will expand to 40.6 billion yen in 2022 seven years later.
In 2013, the American online mail order giant Amazon announced that it would use drones for merchandise distribution, which attracted a lot of attention. Commodity distribution is the main field of UAV application. There are also several companies in Japan that are studying how to use it. However, Kobayashi said: "at present, we have no regrets about the level at which drones fly to where we live and deliver things."
It is also possible to connect site An and site B for drone distribution, but it is difficult to avoid obstacles, such as drilling through power lines, going down to the home yard, and avoiding the dogs in the yard and sending them to the porch.
Live examples are not limited to distribution. This is a "survey" on the construction site. Komatz, a construction equipment manufacturer, aims to develop the best construction plan by collecting and integrating all kinds of data. However, in the measurement as its major premise, it has become a topic to obtain correct data as soon as possible. It is reported that drones are dropped there, construction sites are photographed from the air, measurements and three-dimensional modeling can be completed in just a few hours, even if humans need a month or two of scale measurement.
Examples of applications in the field of entertainment are also outstanding. Aerial images are used in promotional videos of music, or there are examples of shooting scenes of artists bungee jumping in variety shows. Three drones danced and performed with human dancers during a dance led by Holloo Graf's MIKIKO, who is known as the female idol group "Perfume".
The use of drones in music promotional videos. From YouTube "OK Go-I Won't Let You Down-Official Video"
There are also examples of research and development. Microsoft Research and St. George's University in the United States are working on developing drones to collect mosquitoes in the jungle. "emerging infectious diseases" (EID), such as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, bird flu and the recent MERS epidemic in South Korea, are at risk to the international community in order to prevent and study such EID. Fully autonomous mobile drones are expected to work in places inaccessible to humans or in dangerous places.
Although it is a gradually fixed drones, it is officially called UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems), RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems) and so on in the case of drones in English. The word "Drone", which means "drones", can only be commonly known when used in drones. But Mr. Kobayashi believes that a new type of "drones" seems to be emerging recently.
The drones advocated by Kobayashi have two themes in the expression "air industrial revolution". It's "sky" and "robot".
The so-called "sky" is actually a space that is very difficult for human beings to use. So far, human beings can only fly in the sky by plane, or walk on the ground. But with the advent of drones, things have changed. The sky this space, can be used for distribution, can also be used for shooting, all kinds of active use can be done.
At the same time, Kobayashi explained: "the essence of drones is' aerial robots'." In the future world, robots are expected to keep coming into our lives, but even today in 2015, for example, industrial robots are still working in factories and cleaning robots are running back and forth on the floor of the house. However, if autonomous flight is possible, the promotion of the active use of drones as the side of robots may become the forerunner of the upcoming "robot era".
The title of his work, impact, combines these two aspects and "contains the significance of having a great impact on our society and life".
But new technologies can also be troublesome. A drone landed on the roof of the prime minister's official residence in April. Amid growing calls for regulation of drone flights, the UAV Control Act (revised air law) was passed in September and came into effect in December.
The control laws are: (1) to prohibit flying at night so that it can fly during the day; (2) to visually confirm the surrounding conditions; and (3) not to fly at festivals or event venues where people gather more-- and so on. In addition, detailed rules for the prohibition of flying at an altitude of more than 150 meters were also announced.
As for such regulations, Kobayashi said: "it is not such a radical law, and it is appropriate compared with the regulations of other countries." "on the other hand, there have been grey areas so far, so some of them are difficult to measure, to what extent they can be used as a business and can skip drones." The completely unexpected unregulated state is a certain degree of "underlining". The active use of words within this framework is recognized, so there are also those who say that "business has become easier".
Having said that, there are still many topics around drones. Aerial images of the damage to drones sparked a heated debate in September when ghosts were rampant in Changzong City, Ibaraki Prefecture. This is a video that helps to grasp the damage, but there is also a problem.
"there is a story that drones fly so high that they may collide with self-Defense Forces and fire helicopters flying high in the air. There is also part of the video that can only be filmed with drones, or the video on the helicopter is also good. "
In addition, there are privacy issues. In the case of aerial drones, filming operations that were previously unimaginable can be carried out. People who live on the upper floor of a tower apartment, for example, do not imagine living with a camera from the window. Therefore, when this happens, the residents think that there is a great disgust. Such "unexpected events" will emerge one after another in the future, and discussions will be carried out repeatedly.
"now we are groping for the formulation and application of rules step by step, and rule-making has only just begun," Kobayashi said. "
In the future, drones will be more and more used commercially, and the era of many drones flying in the air may come. Now, Kobayashi said, in order to become a society that can freely use drones, the trend of making "control systems" similar to drones has become active.
For example, during the delivery of drones, systems such as "flying OK from here to here" and "passing through other routes during that period of time" can grasp the location of each UAV and assign flight routes. In this way, the social system and rule system built around the UAV, which is also aerial robots, can be directly applied to the coming "robot era". "in that case, how to create an efficient robot utilization system has many times to do with our lives in the future." Kobayashi looks to the future.
Kobayashi Qilun (Kobayashi Akihito) is a business consultant for Hitachi. Born in 1973. He used to be a system engineer and received an MBA from Babson University in the United States. His works include the impact of UAV Business, the Revolution of IoT Business Model, and so on.