India Cargo Award winner 2016 & DGM Jaipur Golden Transport Co

The technology to lift or deliver goods by air exists but there are regulatory and technology related obstacles before we take off with drone delivery of goods. Flying packets in a city can be challenging, flying too high could interfere with aircraft airspace and too low can hinder with skyscrapers and trees. Drones can shut down midflight and cause injury to bystanders and property damages. Amazon is planning to make drone delivery a reality.

Google has said that they might start package delivery through drones in 2017. Last year Walmart also applied to US regulators for drone test permission. Domino’s launched many trial runs in New Zealand and now wants to expand in Australia, Belgium, France, Japan and Germany. Moreover, DHL has already successfully tested drone-to-locker delivery system in Germany and sometime earlier China’s e-Commerce giant Alibaba started trial runs in key cities of the country.

Today, the real issue is whether UAVs are going to create security hazards or benefit organisations and the society at large. An appropriate combination of regulations can trim-down the threats, they cannot eliminate them, there is always the risk that drone can land in the wrong hands.