The Internet of Drones: AI Applications for Smart Solutions

Abstract

In recent years, drones have been integrated with the Internet of Things to offer a variety of exciting new applications in different sectors. This volume provides a detailed exploration of adapting and implementing Internet of Drones (IoD) technologies into real-world applications, with the emphasis on solutions to architectural challenges, providing a clear overview of standardization and regulation, implementation plans, and privacy concerns. The Internet of Drones: AI Applications for Smart Solutions discusses the architectures and protocols for drone communications, implementing and deploying of 5G-drone setups, security issues with drone technology, deep learning techniques applied on real-time footage, and more. It also explores some of the varied applications of IoD, such as for use in monitoring and analysis of troposphere pollutants, providing services and communications in smart cities (such as for weather forecasting, healthcare, communications, transport, agriculture, safety and protection, environmental reduction, service delivery, and e-disposal), for disaster relief management (such as for scanning the affected areas for radiation intensity in cases of nuclear disaster, gathering the location of hotspots, looking for the victims, assessing damage), and more. The authors cover package delivery, movement of traffic, crop monitoring, and mass detection. The problems and challenges associated with IoD in air traffic monitoring, communication between drones, optimum route discovery, and security are also addressed. This detailed exploration of adapting and implementing IoD technologies into real-world applications in this volume will be valuable for graduate students in computer science and especially drone technology, as well as researchers and professionals.