{"id":20697,"date":"2022-01-21T21:24:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=20697"},"modified":"2022-01-21T21:27:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T21:27:51","slug":"when-drones-are-widely-implemented-as-last-mile-technology-where-will-they-deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/front-page-slider\/when-drones-are-widely-implemented-as-last-mile-technology-where-will-they-deliver\/%20","title":{"rendered":"When Drones Are Widely Implemented as Last Mile Technology, Where Will They Deliver?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Experts are predicting\nthe drone delivery industry – already gaining momentum outside the U.S. – is\nfinally starting to build here at home. That’s great news for consumers, who,\nencouraged by the pandemic, are increasingly reliant on\nonline shopping and its offshoot, package delivery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insider Intelligence predicted\na 13.7% growth in U.S. eCommerce sales<\/a>, reaching $908 billion by the end of 2021. Wing, Google’s drone delivery<\/a> service<\/a>, made more than 140,000\ndeliveries to customers in the US, Australia, and Finland in 2021. Others are\nalso getting into drone delivery, and the drone delivery sector, which\nwas valued at about $2 billion in 2020, is\nprojected to reach $5.6 billion by 2026,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But few people are talking about where, exactly, those drones are going to be leaving those packages. If it’s in yards or near porches, what’s to stop the porch pirate trade? More than 210 million packages disappeared<\/a> off American porches in 2020. 

DRONEDEK, one of the first companies in the world to patent a smart mailbox designed for secure drone delivery, thinks of little else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur technology is\nahead of the market right now, but we\u2019re going to see huge movement in the U.S.\ndelivery-by-drone market next year as usage increases,\u201d said CEO Dan\nO’Toole. “We’re ready for that and should have delivery of thousands of\nour smart mailboxes in Q2 this year.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Consumers won’t\nalways be home to watch drones deliver their packages, and that’s going to give\nrise to even more theft for those consumers without a smart mailbox” he\npredicted. “We think the smart mailbox is going to be the next utility —\nas commonplace as a smart phone or microwave oven.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The DRONEDEK mailbox also accepts traditional\nmail delivery and is destined to become an everyday utility service like power\nor water. The device is capable of keeping packages hot or cold; will alert\nusers to package arrival; recharge drones; and even serve as an emergency alert\nif necessary. An app controls when the device is opened for delivery or\nretrieval and also controls its emergency alarm features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DRONEDEK<\/a> solves three of the most critical challenges of delivering packages in \u201cthe last mile\u201d of the delivery route by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n