UAV-based Travel Assistive Technology for Smart Transportation

We demonstrate state-of-the-art DJI drone emergency response to investigate the efficiency of using UAVs for smart transportation systems. Response time, flight time, battery usage, environmental conditions, and video are recorded in a real-world response experiment to understand further the practical capabilities of the DJI Mavic 2 Pro and DJI Phantom 4 drones. GPS coordinates are sent from the emergency location to the drone operator for dispatch of the drones. The battery usage of each of the experiment phases is recorded, resulting in an estimated flight time of 33.67 flight minutes and 35.4 flight minutes for the DJI Mavic 2 Pro and DJI Phantom 4 drones, respectively. The observation is made that automatic flight modes consume more energy and thus lower the potential flight time of the drones.