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| UAE official delivery drone |
The United Arab Emirates with their Emirates ID program are the owners of the largest biometric database in the world. They seek to be the leaders in all things e-government and are aggressively adopting new technology to further this goal. One of the technologies that they are now adopting is drone technology, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles. They are seeking to use drones in all sorts of government functions.
One of their first projects is to develop a drone to be used as a delivery vehicle. They have developed a battery operated four rotor drone about 20 inches wide with a small cargo compartment on top. They intend to deliver licenses, small packages and documents including the aforementioned Emirates ID card. And how will the unmanned drone verify that the package is being delivered to the correct party? It will be by biometrics, of course. The drone will be outfitted with a retina scanner and a fingerprint scanner. So the citizens will need to be biometrically registered in order to receive documents from the government.
We want to reach people before they reach us, says Mohammed as he attends drone tests
The UAE is conducting pilot tests to
introduce unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for a range of civilian
government services including delivering documents to the public and
monitoring traffic.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid
Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of
Dubai, personally attended pilot tests for the UAVs, which are also
known as drones.
The UAE intends to use drones for a
wide variety of government services, including infrastructure
monitoring and geographic surveys.
This initiative supports the UAE
leadership’s drive to make government more responsive to its
customers and to deliver services as efficiently as possible as an
early adopter of the latest technology.
Sheikh Mohammed expressed his
satisfaction with the project, which Emirati engineers have been
running for three months.
He instructed that drones should be
used for a wider variety of services and across a larger area of the
UAE.
"We want to reach to people before
they reach us.
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