Unmanned aerial vehicles , or drones or quadcopters as you ’d prefer to call them , have certainly take off in the last few years , which is great , if you love postulate cool film ( or terrorizing your neighbor ’s dog ) . But it ’s created a headache for the FAA , who have go to regulate the infant industry , and make low - flying aircraft controlled by amateur pilot safe . The in vogue proposal of marriage : an air - traffic mastery system based on cellular meshing .
The idea for using the exist cellular infrastructure to control dawdler has been put forward by Airwave , a trailer startup . It ’s working with NASA on a prototype traffic direction system that will see laggard hooked up to a central server ( and presumably civilian air traffic ascendency ) via the existing cellular net . Not only will that start the dealings management organisation to see where each radio-controlled aircraft is , but in theory , it will also allow for an air - dealings - control ‘ coup d’etat ’ of dawdler , to forestall collision .
In improver to the obvious Skynet trouble of having all the country ’s flying machine controllable by one fundamental computer , there ’s also a more terrene question of dependability : cell networks do n’t have complete coverage over all the country , peculiarly in some of the more remote wild areas that be given to be popular for drone photography . On second thought process , maybe we should keep it that way : somewhere to hide when the Dronepocalypse starts . [ Mashable ]
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