This podcast episode is a replay from my previous podcast that was focused on STEM education. I decided to repost it in this podcast, because it gives you a few new ideas of what we can do with drone technology.

The research article I summarized can be found here. You can also read my blog post on my personal blog to get some additional information.

Full transcript:

0:00Discover drones is your go to resource for learning about drones, drones in business, emerging drone technology and drones in STEM education. I am Dr. Heather Monthie, an FAA certificated flight instructor, commercial pilot, remote pilot and dedicated stem educator. Join us as we discover more about drone safety, urban Air Mobility, business and education. Let's get started. Hi, and welcome back to the podcast. I'm Heather Monthie. And this episode, what I am doing is I am re sharing with you a podcast episode that I did in my old podcast that was really geared towards STEM education. But I talked a lot about drones in that podcast. And so I wanted to share with you a couple of episodes that I used in that podcast, I think that you will find interesting so this podcast episode is about the library of the future. It's about library drone delivery and some of the things that we might want to think about as

1:00We are advancing in drone technology and some of the uses for it. And so what I did is I found a research article that I just summarized a little bit share with you some of the things that were they're doing. And then a couple different links in the show notes are available if you guys want to check out the article itself and some of the other resources that I share with you in this episode. So enjoy.

1:24Alright, so let's dive in. We're going to talk about the library of the future. So I have been sharing quite a bit about how I am learning more and more about the different types of drone business models that are out there, and the different drone use cases. I think that this is an emerging technology that there's a lot of ideas being thrown out there. Some are good, some are not as good. Some may need a few more years for other technology to develop. But I came across an article written by Francis Nath from the rain forest Research Institute in India. And in this article, Francis discusses the idea of library drones

2:00To delivery services. So it wasn't really something that I have come across much in the drone blogs or the scholarly papers that I read about with drone technology and business in that. So I thought it was an interesting idea and interesting concept to try to help get more and more people using library resources that can't necessarily be delivered online. So in this episode, today, I'm going to give you a summary of the article I also linked to the actual article in the show notes if you're interested in reading the actual article itself. So I'm going to provide to you a summary of this article as well as a little bit of my own opinions and input on article. So you know, as we all know, over the past several years, drone technology has become much more commercialized. And as a result, there are many creative technology professionals and entrepreneurs who are looking for ways to create scalable businesses around this new emerging technology. There are current sources of

3:00revenue for drone operators these are existing business models for drone operators. These are going to be things like filming video and movies, aerial photography, doing search and rescue operations, crop monitoring services and meteorological services. And as more and more business leaders become more familiar and more comfortable with this technology, a lot of businesses are moving their drone services in house now. So this article is titled library drone delivery program a study. So in this article Nath provides a framework for understanding how drone technology can be integrated into library resources for the community. So there, you know,