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Drones for Outdoor Signage Inspection

Orakwe John

Orakwe John Jul 25, 2021

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Drones designated for inspection of geo-tagged outdoor signage in cities. This technology saves on fuel and manpower costs and protects the environment.

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Drones in marketing!

jnikola

jnikola Jul 26, 2021

Hi John! Your idea, although probably used somewhere, inspired me to think of drones as the inspection agents for the billboards. They could re-stick, remove and clean the billboards or hard-to-reach ads. Then I realized something. What if we used drones to carry around "billboards"? 

That way, you can order marketing at the exact place and the exact time, targeting specifically the right audience. If you hang a small billboard about a cool new refreshing drink on a drone and fly above the cars in the hot rush hours, you could have a more efficient marketing strategy. Also, if you flew in front of the windows of a business skyscraper with a new healthy food restaurant ad just opened in the neighborhood, you could save paper (eco-friendly) and do a better job. You could even have different meal-of-the-day ad each day! 

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Povilas S

Povilas S3 years ago

Reminded me of this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS8r63slUN8

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Orakwe John

Orakwe John3 years ago

Juran Drone-powered mobile billboards would be brilliant. Especially with tethered drones that can fly across a defined path. Although, I suspect there would be a lot of regulatory bottlenecks on the path to making this work. 

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Darko Savic

Darko Savic3 years ago

Depending on the area, this might prompt a new sport to emerge - shooting down the spam bot😂 

I guess some areas would be advertisement free:)

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Autonomous Outdoor Display Boards With Inbuilt Robotic Arm and Micro-Drones

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D. Eagle Aug 11, 2021

The immediate concern is the proliferation of drones and misuse of airspace in unrestricted zones, with potentially inaudinate number of fleets of drones deployed by countless agencies (never mind other competing organisations), buzzing around from site to site.  Probably, not too far from swarms of drones, before much tighter regulations are scrambled to intercept and clear the skies.

So, rather than that, why not make the outdoor signage boards autonomous? This could be a better alternative solution.  Autonomous outdoor display boards with an inbuilt robotic arm and fleet of micro-drones (possibly, tethered physically/electronically to the base robotic arm). 

The boards are self-inspecting/maintaining with an inbuilt retractable robotic arm stored in a secure housing within the board.  The robotic arm contains all the necessary equipment (camera, tool-bits, etc), as well as the fleet of micro-drones, for microscopic inspection and maintenance of the display and board generally.  All surfaces are coated with self-cleaning properties. 

There's also added onboard capacity to measure ad impresssions/views and calculate site revenues realtime.   

Needless to say, the network of boards is connected back to the main base (wherever that might be), for realtime visual and data stream.

In this way, any transit inspection/maintenance would virtually be unnecessary, saving costs.  There might be the rare human site visit for essential control base-monitoring or if a board needs external attention.

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Darko Savic

Darko Savic3 years ago

Good one👌 but it's already been done:
https://youtu.be/M7oNxqvZnqg
https://youtu.be/aPqyjkGc_Go

Don't feel bad though. Today I came up with an idea that's been done for decades:) 

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Orakwe John

Orakwe John3 years ago

Darko Savic wow...I'm enjoying this. I'll revise my submission shortly

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