Amazon’s Drone Delivery System-Amazon Prime Air 2017
Amazon first launched the idea of Drone Delivery in late 2013s. They are developing this service using drones because they want to shorten the delivery time and increase the safety of the deliveries. The beta test took place in Cambridgeshire in a specially designed warehouse. Here is how it works, seconds after they receive the order, your package gets ready for the shipment by the workers and they put it into an electrical drone and let it find its way with a drone that operates itself completely with its own GPS. Within the thirty minutes or less, your package should be in front of your door.
They made their first drone delivery attempt in 2016 and it went successful enough to launch the idea. So after the beta test drone shipment got its approval in the UK, for the limited customers and products, however, Amazon is still waiting for the federal approval to ship their products around the US via drones.
Some say that the project main purpose was the limited area for the amazon’s warehouses matter fact the first trials flights were made in a warehouse so it brings this question to the minds: Will the actual Amazon Prime Air center’s warehouse be in the air or on the ground?
Right after the beta test Amazon got its flying warehouse’s patent that gives us the sign of floating Warehouse’s over our head at most in 5 years. The detailed information about Amazon Prime Air is in this video.
Also there are couple of threads like hackers or thieves that may want to steal your package. Even though Amazon says that there will be notifications given to the customers via mobile devices, that may not be still very helpful. A thief can act quick and steal the product just after it lands. Also, hackers may hack the drone’s system and change its destination point and so forth. All in all, if Amazon wants to launch their futuristic idea to life they will need to consider all the situations that they will face to, and take their precautions according to that.
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