AERO + Trusted IoT Alliance to Help Create a Secure IoT Ecosystem
Today the AERO Foundation is proud to announce it is joining the Trusted IoT Alliance to contribute to the Alliance’s vision of creating a secure, scalable and interoperable ecosystem at the intersection of IoT and Blockchain. The Trusted IoT Alliance provides opportunities to collaborate with Fortune 500 companies, blockchains startups, IoT device makers and protocol foundations that comprise this rapidly emerging ecosystem.
Distributed ledger technology can enable the effortless identification, verification and authorization of trusted devices for defined purposes. …
Q&A with Aaron Crews: Current Text IQ General Counsel & VP of Strategy, Former Walmart Senior Associate General Counsel & Global Head of E-Discovery discusses the future of drone delivery services
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is not only one of the largest retailers and employers in the world, but has a logistical supply chain and distribution infrastructure that rivals nation state capabilities. Aaron Crews is currently General Counsel and Vice President of Strategy for Text IQ and previously served as Senior Associate General Counsel, Global Head of E-Discovery and technologist for Walmart. Aaron has a long track record of utilizing technology to address some of the most complex business and legal issues relevant to retailers worldwide.
There’s a lot of hype surrounding the commercial application of drones. Are direct-to-consumer drone delivery services realistic in the immediate future?
Aaron: Yes. The drone technology necessary to enable direct-to-consumer delivery services already exists and is not merely a hypothetical. Commercial drone delivery networks have been successfully deployed in a number of countries for various applications. …
Accessing low-altitude private airspace is not simply a regulatory issue in the U.S., but a constitutional one.
There’s a reason why Amazon and other retailers are not yet delivering packages to American consumers via drone at scale within the United States and it’s not because the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”), Federal Highway Administration and National Park Services are cumbersome, bureaucratic-entities obstructing technological and social progress.
While regulators certainly have a material role to play in the future success of of commcerial drone services, even if hypothetically there were no regulatory barriers, whatsoever, drones would still be restricted to operating over public property and or at higher altitudes (i.e. …
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