Development and Future of Internet of Drones (IoD): Insights, Trends and Road Ahead

This book provides a clear insight about IoD and its requirements, protocols, performance improvement, evaluation methods and challenging aspects, to the readers at one place. The recent enhancement of integrating drone with the Internet of things (IoT) technology promises tremendous global development. The top applications of the Internet of Drones (IoD) are expected to be infrastructure & building monitoring, fire service systems, insurance investigations, retail fulfilment, agriculture and forensic evidence collections. Conventional drone technology is enhanced with the Internet and other emerging technologies such as cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and communication networks which open up for enormous opportunities like ahead for on-demand service-oriented and user-friendly IoD applications. This book presents extensive knowledge about the role of IoT and emerging technology in drone networks. It focuses on major research areas of the Internet of Drones and its related applications. It provides a strong knowledge platform towards the Internet of Drones for graduates, researchers, data scientists, educators and drone hobbyists.

Provides a clear insight about the Internet of Drones (IoD) and its requirements, performance, evaluation, and challenging aspects Explores a wide range of IoD applications toward improving quality of life in civilians Explains mechanisms toward data collection, data processing, and data analysis based on IoT devices deployed over IoD systems

Inhalt
The Swarm is more than sum of its Drones.- Towards a Smarter Suvelliance solution: The convergance of Smart City and Energy Efficient Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technologies.- Cloud based drone management in smart cities.- DroneMap: An IoT Network Security in Internet of Drones.