Introducing Drone Technology in Organization

Question: Discuss about the Introducing Drone Technology in Organization. Answer: Introduction Unmanned Aerial Vehicle also known as Drone technology has been in the spotlight. The Drone technology is used for the army for the security of the country. The advancement of the Information technology has incorporated the use of Drone technology for the industries like mining, agriculture, media and many (Floreano Wood, 2015). The scenario of the case study states that the organisation having headquarters in Australia are interested for expanding its business in the field of mining, agriculture and transport industries. The company involves the use of the Information Technology for gaining the competitive advantages over the rival company. The CEO of the organisation has clear view on the drone technology and is thinking of using the technology in the various sector of the organization to gain competitive advantages over other company. The CEO of the organization asked for providing the information and a detailed structure report on the influence of the drone technology in any fiv e industries those are using the drone technology. The CEO also demanded for the short term and the long term options of using this technology. The aim of the report is to provide a general view on the usage of this technology and the advantages, disadvantages and the associated risk with the incorporation of this technology in the organization. It also gives an overview on the ethical, social and legal considerations that the technology has to considered before implementing. The report has a clear objective on identifying the risk and the profit associated with the technology. What is Drone Technology (UAV) Drone technology also known by the name Unmanned Aerial System are the airplanes that are been controlled and managed by the pilots. The advancement of the technology has introduces the drone to a new level. The pilots do not do the control now. The advancement of the technology introduced the automated drone that are been controlled by the help of the remotes. Drones are been classified in two divisions. The drones those are fitted with rockets are been especially used by the army. The drone that is used for observations and the finding purposes and are been especially used by the industries. The drones are been utilized for flying high and staying in a particular point are of much less cost than the drones that are been used by the army. Usage of Drones in Recent Times Drone Technologies in recent times are been used for many industries and they help the industries to gain competitive advantages over the rivals as it helps for the observations of each work and the findings thus becomes relatively easy. The drones are been used for many industries. In this report, the focus is laid on industries like media, mining, tourism, transport and logistics and agriculture. Media Industry: The report shows that a University in Columbia named Missouri University are providing adequate knowledge on the Drone Technology. This is a great move incorporated in the university as the students of the university get a chance of being accustomed with the drone technology (Thorpe, 2016). Media requires aerial filming and photography to a large effect. The use of drone technology makes the requirement of tools too low as different types of cameras are already attached to the drone. It helps in getting a good focus and has the ability to cover the important requirement of the media. It is also cost effective. The scope of limiting the computer uses by the introduction of UAV helps in making the job easy. Mining Industry: The most significant use of Drone Technology is extracting the crude materials from deep down the ground which is a very laborious job as well as risky for the labors. The safety of the worker is the most important point of concern in this industry (Bartzen, 2014). Drone Technology helps in collecting the accurate data and thus reduced the risks to a great effect. It also helps in reducing the number of staff on the site that gives cost benefit to the organization. The productivity of the company also increases with the data collected by this technology. The projects that needed a long time for surveying are been completed within the hours. Therefore, it also saves the time for the organization behind a particular project (Lee Choi, 2016). Tourism Industry: Drone Technology became a significant marketing tool for the industry of tourism. The technology has the capability of production of innovative videos and the photographs that affect the people to become the client of the tourism industry. The online travelling videos by the drone technology attract the customers to visit that place (Hay, 2016). The hotel and the restaurants are using this technology for gaining the advantages by having more clients. Transport and Logistic Industry: The implementation of the technology in the logistic industry is in its early stage This method is implemented in the urban city by the logistics department. The logistic company applies the aerial delivery method by the help of UAV. The text book of a student will be deliver to the student using the UAV at the outdoor location. The parcels once reach the student deliver it to the student with the help of the delivery mechanism, which is been attached to the retractable cord (Hauptman, Hoppe Raban, 2015). It helps in reducing the delivery time from two to three days to two to three minutes. Agriculture Industry: Drone Technology plays an important role in the agricultural industry. It helps the farmer to get the data about the crops and detects irregularities on the earliest (Lynn, 2013). It helps to take best decisions on the pesticides and the fertilizers to be used. It also helps to track the animals those are harmful for the agriculture . Introduction of Drone Technology in the Organization Integration: The existing information technology must be integrated with the drone technology. The drone technology that collects data should be incorporated with the system. This is the integration of the drone technology with the existing information technology (Kuzma et al., 2016). The interface of the application program should be directly plugged into the system. Work management: This is step followed after the effective integration of the system. The recognition of specific drones that are required for the organization is done. Approval: The implementations of the drone for the industries and the commercial purposes are done by abiding all the rules of FAA. The starting of this technology needs the approval of the FAA (Perriitt Sprague, 2015). Operator Management: The system of operating the technology is vital since the job is allocated to the workers based on the operation of this technology. For example the drones used for mining industry needs a single person. Collection of Autonomous Information: The drone devices is incorporated with software and the path-ups. The specification of the software is done according to the drone used for the particular industry (Bennett, Phillips Davis, 2016). The most significant software that is been incorporated in the drone is the automatic control of flight and collection of data within the flight. Processing of Data: The information is identified with the help of collected data that has been collected by the drone. This information helps in gaining profit in the future for the organizations. Short and Long Term Options The achievement of competitive advantages, eliminating the small gaps in the business that exists, minimizing the interactions of the human and achieving of prcised data are the short-term options of using the drone technology. The Long-term options includes the achievement of the organizational objectivities, attaining more satisfactions of the customers and accurate decision makings (Zhang et al., 2016). Advantages of Drone Technology Environment friendly- The technology is environment friendly as the technology only consists of battery and the automotive section that does not causes any hazards to the environment. Up-lift the Economic Structure: The structure of the economy of the organization would be up-lifted on using the drone technology. The automated system when used for the organizations like mining, media, transport and agriculture helps them to achieve economic stability (Harrison, 2015). The technology is cost effective and time saving for the company that enables them to achieve economic stability. The technology helps in having an access to the authorization of law, cultivation, media scope where it is impossible to reach physically. Growth of Business: The growth of the business develops exponentially depending on the technology required for the business. Disadvantages of using Drone Technology Apprehension of the privacy: The GPS system in the drone technology discovers the home and the camera attached to it have a specific goal but it exploit the environment. This might affect the security of the clients. This mostly happens in the logistics industries. Safety: The using of the close terminals of the airplanes is a unsafe circumstances. The enquiries have been lifted on the effect of the flying of the automated airplanes. Issues regarding Legal activities: The permits to be given for the usage of the technology by the legislatives like FAA and the Federal Government (Dia, 2015). Risks and Solutions: Potential Risk Description Solution Unskilled Operators If the drone technology is operated by an unskilled operator it results in the loss of the business (Clothier et al., 2015) The implementation of the technology requires a good business plan and skillful employees who has the capability of operating the system successfully. Safety The serious point of concern is the drone safety at the time of its operation. The installed procedure of safety could be eliminated due to the issues regarding environment. The documents for safety including the agendas for pre flight, procedure for standard operating and logbooks should be maintained for the safety. These reports account for the management of the safety systems. Injury The risk is associated with the people who are near to the drone. The technology could face the technological difficulty and the operator might lose the full control and access of the device. The innovations like Geofencing could be introduced in the automation product for flying. Privacy The privacy of the people is an area of concern. The use of this technology could violate the privacy. The pictures taken with the help of this technology might be leaked in the social media or might be shared within various people. The utilization of this technology in a moral and ethical way is the only solution of this risk (Finn Wright, 2016). Actions should be taken if anyone is liable for committing this mistake. Ethical, Social and Legal Considerations Ethical Considerations: The videos and the photographs taken with the help of this technology required to be confirmed at first by the government or by the concerned person whose video has been taken (Finn Donovan, 2016). The implementation of drones should be prohibited from spying the personal life. Social Considerations: The collection of the data using the drone technology should not be handed to a wrong person. The situation could be avoided by using a secure encryption to the memory of the drone (Sandbrook, 2015). Legal Considerations: The knowledge at the time of the production of drones should be considered at the time of sales, manufacture and distribution of the drones. The manufactures should abide the laws that are to be maintained at the time of productions (Smith, 2015). Conclusion The decision of the organization is highly influenced by the drone technology. The organization has an intention to focus on the sectors where drone technology is used. The various industries used different drone technologies with different coding of the software. The organization should be ensuring that the implementation and the operation of the drone technology is in the hand of the right person (Paquette, 2016). The application of the drone is guided by the rules of FAA. The guidelines to be abided are quite difficult for the manufactures. The risks are bound to be there when a company starts to use some innovative technology and so there will be some risks with the introduction of the drone technology. The report has emphasized on the risks that company has the possibility to face. Though the technology might has some risk and disadvantages but the advantages it helps to incorporated in the company outplay the disadvantages and the risks. The report focused on how the use of drone technology helps to gain the company the competitive advantages on all the five sectors. The security assurance of information and all the issues regarding the moral values is hard to bind. The drone technology helps in the rising of the moral issues. Recommendations Drones could be equipped with high range sensors: In the mining industry the mining organisation should equipped the drone with a high sensing capability sensor. This helps the drone to take hundreds of pictures for one square kilometer. This pictures are very much essential on creating the road map for the mines that helps in having appropriate data. Drone should be used with high payload: In logistic and transport industry the drone should have the capability to transfer heavy loads from the loading point to the destination. The expertise must have the knowledge about the technical difficulties that the drone might face while delivering the product. So, a package of software should be installed in drone that will give indication of any error taking place while the done is in operating made. The prime benefit that the agricultural industry achieves is the cheap price. The organization should remove all the parts that are unnecessary to lower the cost of manufacture (Freeman Freeland, 2014). The agricultural need low flying drones therefore, the cost is more reduces at the time of manufacturing. 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