Alphabet Will Initiate Drone Package Delivery In FY17

Alphabet has plans to start drone package delivery by 2017. Alphabet Inc, the renowned Internet giant which is the recent holdings company for Google has plans to initiate delivery via drones to consumers in 2017. The claim was made by the executives at the company in an attempt top bolster its drone segment. The head of Project Wing at Alphabet, Mr. David Vos believes that the firm is now having negotiations with the Federal Aviation Administration along with various other stakeholders for establishing an air traffic control system for all those drones that will be enabled via Internet or cellular technology. This will help them to coordinate the drone flights that are below 500 feet in altitude. “Our goal is to have commercial business up and running in 2017,” mentioned Mr. Vos while addressing an audience at the air traffic control convention taking place in Washington DC, United States. Amazon and Alphabet are among those tech giants who wish to make drone delivery a reality in the times to come. The only hindrance that is stopping these companies is that the drones will not be able to take flight till the time the FAA comes up with published rules for the drones operations commercially. This is likely to happen in the start of 2016. The initial research by the search engine giant began almost 2 years before Project Wing was launched in FY14. A YouTube video surfaced that showed a field test was conducted through a prototype in Australia. Within the United States, the Project Wing unit has collaborated with NASA to conduct the testing. VOS is said to be the co-chair of the task force at the FAA that is developing a drone registry. The idea is to identify the drone operations and also enabling the UAV to be away from the aircraft within a time span of 12 months. “We’re pretty much on a campaign here, working with the FAA, working with the small UAV community and the aviation community at large, to move things along,” Vos added. According to Mr. Vos, the drone registry under the administration of President Obama is likely to take place by the end of Fy15. This will be the first step that will encompass the Internet and wireless communication technology. This will also deal with applications control via cell phones so that the UAV are far apart from one another. This is great news for all those who expected drone delivery in near future.