MARKETPLACE FOR UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES DATA COLLECTION REQUESTS
First Claim
1. A marketplace system for managing a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) comprising:
- a marketplaceregister memory, operably coupled to said marketplace, storing and registering drones available to perform drone services without responding to a request for drone services;
request device, operably coupled to said marketplace, storing and registering requested drone service to be performed; and
matching unit coupled to said drone register memory and said request device matching requested drone service to be performed with drones available to perform the requested drone service and present the results of the matching for drone operators and drone service requesters to select a drone to perform the requested drone service, the selected drone performing the requested service.
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Abstract
Aspects of the invention relate to a UAV (drone) data marketplace where requests for UAV services are matched with registered UAVs. Drone operators register in the marketplace drones in their fleet with their capabilities and requesters of drone services make their request in the marketplace. The requests can be a set of data to be collected (e.g., optical images, NIR data, temperatures, etc.) and/or actions to be performed (e.g., deploying spare machinery parts to a tractor in the field), a location from which that data is collected and/or location to which a delivery is to be made, a pipeline of analytics to be performed on the data (e.g., optical recognition, NDVI computation, fertilizer application recommendation), a timeframe in which to collect the data (e.g., “by next week”, “by the end of today”), and a market value for how much the Requester is willing to pay for that data or operation. The marketplace matches the drone service requests with drones registered in the marketplace capable of performing the requested service. The drone operator and the drone service requester form an agreement for a job to be performed.
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1. A marketplace system for managing a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) comprising:
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a marketplace register memory, operably coupled to said marketplace, storing and registering drones available to perform drone services without responding to a request for drone services; request device, operably coupled to said marketplace, storing and registering requested drone service to be performed; and matching unit coupled to said drone register memory and said request device matching requested drone service to be performed with drones available to perform the requested drone service and present the results of the matching for drone operators and drone service requesters to select a drone to perform the requested drone service, the selected drone performing the requested service. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 19)
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8. A computer-implemented method of managing a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) comprising:
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registering and storing in a drone register memory drones in a fleet of drones available to perform services without responding to a request for drone services; registering and storing in a request device requested drone service to be performed; and matching in a matching unit requested drone service to be performed with drones available to perform the requested drone service and presenting the results of the matching for drone operators and drone service requesters to select a drone to perform the requested drone service, the selected drone performing the requested service. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20)
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14. A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer readable program for managing a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) comprising:
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registering and storing in a drone register memory drones in a fleet of drones available to perform services without responding to a request for drone services; registering and storing in a request device a requested drone service to be performed; and matching in a matching unit the requested drone service to be performed with drones available to perform the requested drone service and presenting the results of the matching for drone operators and drone service requesters to select a drone to perform the requested drone service, the selected drone performing the selected service. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18)
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