The main duties of drons’ are to fulfill missions in potentially dangerous for people

In recent years, as a result of the evolution of technology and management systems, demand for drones has been increased. At present these instructions are used in a wide range of areas such as agriculture, health, education, the arts, media, construction, environment, sports and so on.

Head of the Institute of Information Technology Institute Shakir Mehdiyev talked about it on Institute seminar in his speech "Drones: current situation, problems and prospects".

Shakir Mehdiyev stressed that the main task of the drones is to perform potential dangerous missions for people. Rapporteur provided information about the history of Drones, noted that remote-controlled ship models with radiowaves were demonstrated for the first time in 1898, unmanned aircraft was being used by UK “Queen Bee” in 1933.

Drones are widely used in military, industrial and civilian areas. The head of the department noted that drones are being used basically on the purposes of exploration; finding missing people, victims of natural disasters and illegal criminal investigations, as well as traffic accidents or traffic jam photos and so on. That is being said, these devicescan be used for observationof rare animals, delivery of medical equipment and medication, creation of heat maps for the buildings.

Head of the department, as well as gave detailed information about the principle of the devices, their usage patterns, "MQ-1 Predator" drones weight, flight distance, speed, length, the duration of the flight.etc. He noted that to ensure the safety of flight “Airware” operating system are being used based on the Linux platform.

Shakir Mehdiyev spoke about spy drone, “DJI Phantom 4” which supports intelligent flight systems, drone which is controlled via Cloud, opportunities of police-drone and drone-camera, and noted  that in 2020, the volume will amount to $ 2 billion.