Mass surveillance normally has a bad reputation, however if you need to keep track of thousands of products drones can be used to great effect.
Tracking the health of your crop
The first example of the benefits of drone technology is the ability to monitor the health of your crops.
Realistically speaking large portions of land can be quite time consuming to monitor in their entirety, and problems such as Irrigation faults can be difficult to spot, which could cause valuable crops to dry up and die.
Given an aerial view and the manoeuvrability of a few drones’ dry patches of land can be identified and addressed far more easily than checking the entire area manually.
This can be done either via a normal aerial view or more easily via a thermal video feed to detect temperature differences between well-watered patches of land and dry patches of land.
Cost effective Pest control.
In The Macadamia we learn that drones are being tested as a solution to distribute pest control measures in an extremely targeted and precise manner.
This makes sense as often the alternative is, either having a light aircraft distribute pesticide measures over large portions of land or spraying pesticides on the ground manually.
Finding and tracking animals
The last feature that could be used to great effect is the thermal video technology that can be equipped to a drone.
This feature can be used several ways firstly thermal video technology shines brightest at night, and as such it can be used to find any lost animals that may have gone missing in the day.
The same way police use thermal video technology to track down suspects at night, we can employ this technology to locate missing animals.
Additionally, if wild animals are a threat, thermal video technology can be used to locate predatory animals in the area such as foxes and wolfs and pinpoint their position.
Hopefully by this point drones have started to sound less like a piece of military hardware and more like a tool to you and your business.
