Privacy-Aware Restricted Areas for Unmanned Aerial Systems

Although drones are receiving a lot of attention from industry and academia alike, the protection of citizen privacy is still an open issue. To this end, we demonstrate how basic principles of information privacy could be integrated with existing infrastructure to build up a framework for privacy-aware unmanned aerial system (UAS) dispatch considering restricted areas. The software framework proposed enables UAS operators to determine whether a selected UAS flight path intersects with a restricted area, by considering privacy preferences that can be configured by citizens themselves.