A small pizza chain Francesco Pizzeria located in Mumbai succeeded in making delivery using GPS enabled drones.
It was not a regular delivery as they were experimenting and the customer was a friend of chain’s CEO.
The CEO of the chain said that, “All of us had read about
(global e-commerce giant) Amazon’s plans of using drones. We
successfully carried out a test delivery by sending a pizza to a
customer located 1.5 km away from our outlet on May 11.”
This is the first time in India where a product is delivered in such a unique way.
It delivered a 13 inch plain Margherita pizza, weighing half a kilo to 21st floor.
The drone speed beats the speed of the leading pizza chain, which delivers pizza within 30 minutes.
He added “What we have done now will be common place in the
next four to five years. Every such customized drone costs around USD
2,000,” he added.
Drones are mainly used in India by filmmakers for shooting
to mount cameras And they are allowed to fly only between 200 to 400
feet.
The Pizzeria told that it used a remote-controlled four-rotored drone which was custom made.
The city police said that they are confirming whether the pizzeria request permission from the civil aviation authorities.
The company told that they had operated within the law.
Drones are banned in India from flying over security
reasons and there are technical difficulties like after operating within
8km area they ran out of batteries.
Amazon also reported that they would be testing drones for
making depiveryand also confirmed that it would take five years for the
service to begin.
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