New US Government Report Explains How Blockchain Will Be Useful in Tracking Drone Delivery
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- Commercial drone delivery is seeing significant adoption around the world, but technical issues around data sharing and trust remain
- Blockchain-based breakout recorders and other related systems that could be an opportunity to more developed applications, according to a new report announced by the US Department of Transportation.
Commercial drone delivery is getting a serious issue but still deals with a technical challenge that is data sharing and trust. According to a report announced on April 15, a blockchain could help as reported by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) contends.
Companies and governments all over the world are using unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) to deliver essential products, like medicines. For instance, last year Ghana launched the world’s largest medical drone delivery service, which takes up to 600 on-demand flights per day to 2,000 health facilities spread across the country.
As reported by DOT “The number of variety of UASs and the diverse operations they are or may be expected to soon be involved in making these aircraft especially suitable to the trust and operational integrity provided by blockchain” that was authored by a group of contributors directed by engineer Seamus McGovern of the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center.
“A high-level study of unmanned aircraft systems’ flight operations that may benefit from the application of blockchain concepts.” narrated by DOT’s website
If we talk about “blockchain-based black box” it may deliver data that would help investigators to know exactly what the drone was doing before it hit any obstacle. IBM has achieved a document that would be great for blockchain to assist air traffic controllers chronicle each drone’s flight path.
If we talk about valid example, just examine a drone that will deliver a human organ for transplant, what a great deal. This imaginary fact really worked, in 2019 a kidney was delivered, and that was successfully transplanted at the University of Maryland. Just in 10 minutes, a human organ traveled 2.6 miles over a city of Baltimore. Where a car would have taken 15-20 minutes to transport.
As reportedly DOT “Not only is time an issue, but another concern is that en route the organ’s progress is not normally known by the receiving hospital,” and this scarcity of simplicity can lead to unfair uncertainty. In theory, expanding a blockchain that would allow all the entities involved – air traffic controllers, the drone operator, the drone itself, the hospital supplying the organ, and the hospital that is receiving it – track a significant set of shared data.
You could have varying levels of access to the record, which would trace the drone’s position, its planned route, its fuel status, and important information about the organ and its container.
A report assumes that “In this case study, not only is a range of valuable information readily available, but it is also trusted, which is critical in both aviation operations and medical procedures, “.
