In Japan, the largest island country in East Asia, customers deliver orders from drones and parachutes.
Japan by 70 percent consists of mountains and islands, which creates difficulties when delivering goods to some regions of goods, in particular urgent.
To solve the situation, the companies develop various innovative solutions, thanks to which orders can be safely delivered within a few hours.
Among such solutions, the delivery of goods using drones, which have been widely used in the world in many industries for several years.
Products are delivered to the destination using drones, and “landed” within a radius of 10 meters using parachutes.
Residents of the islands Got the Nagasaki Prefecture order all the products necessary in everyday life online, and receive using drones.
Drones follow all the rules of safe flight, use advanced algorithms and software.
Sora-Iina, which provides the Delivery Delivery Service, was created in 2021 and is funded by the Toyota Tsusho trading company.
Delivery price is 1000 yen (about $ 7).
Citizens can order any product, starting from products in the supermarket, to drugs in pharmacies.
Winged drone can develop speeds up to 100 km/h, the maximum flight range is 80 kilometers. Drones are made of polystyrene and plastic, and practically do not damage objects in the collision.
At the destination, drones drop a parcel with a parachute from a height of hundreds of meters. The package falls within a radius of 10 meters from the destination.
A slight error can occur only in windy weather.