My name is Vaibhav Pachalla, from San Francisco, and I have patented an innovative design for a drone traffic control system. I have a deep interest in Drones and control systems alike and I am currently looking for an internship at a Drone company for summer 2016. I can be contacted at [email protected]
With the ever growing amount of new Drones in the sky and the ever growing amount of first time and inexperienced Drone time pilots it will soon be necessary to have system implemented which is devoted to the control of Drones to ensure safety in the skies for the sake of anyone who works in the skies and to all those who live under the skies as well. Any proposed Drone Traffic Control System must be extremely flexible to adjust for the rapidly changing Drone industry and its future innovations and extremely robust as even a minor Drone Control System blackout could result in devastation. The NASA led effort to create a drone traffic control system has recognized all of these needed features, but they are missing something that could make an even bigger positive impact on the Drone Industry. As a Drone Traffic Control System should be able to create a two-way dialogue with Drones it leads one to wonder what else could be done with an expansive system which could potentially remotely control the Drone connected to it. A system which could create a two-way dialogue with drones could function as much more than simply a tool to control the traffic of drones, but as a full-fledged platform to create more advanced and innovative Drone applications. This platform could incorporate powerful development tools which could elevate even the smallest start-ups to create applications as advanced if not more advanced than the current tech giants such as Google or Amazon. These tools could incorporate functions which could send control messages to Drones and also facilitate receiving messages from Drones remotely. The extent of this remote control could be as vast as the range of the entire Drone traffic control system itself. A control system which could give remote access to a drone and this even adds the capability for automated remote control of Drones as well. I have actually patented a system which will incorporate all of these features and then some. My system will be made up of a variety of control apparatuses known as control centres which could be directly or indirectly connected together and would allow Drones to directly or indirectly connect to it to establish a two-way dialogue. My system will also incorporate encrypted connections, a daisy chain mechanism which can indirectly connect Drones to a control system through other Drones, and also incorporate human controllers into the Drone Control System so that they can remotely control their drone(s) through the Drone Traffic Control System itself. My system also doesn’t have a specific type of infrastructure (e.g. cell towers, fibre optic cable, etc.) “baked in” to its design so it could easily be adapted to all existing infrastructure so as to save cost on building entirely new infrastructure. Overall, my patented control system design is flexible, adaptable, innovative, and effective.