Enabling drone as a service: OneM2M-based UAV/drone management system

Recently, commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) called drones have received a lot of interest in the public and civil environments for their possibility as a potential enabler of promising services such as traffic monitoring, ad hoc network establishment in a disaster area, parcel delivery, remote sensing and streaming on various service scenarios. However, in order to support those services smoothly, a stable and reliable UAV/drone control and management system is needed. Utilizing a standard-based communication scheme is helpful in realizing efficient control and management of UAV/drone-based operations. Regarding this issue, the oneM2M global standard, which provides machine-to-machine (M2M) and the Internet of Things (IoT) service layer for globally interoperable M2M/IoT solutions, has paramount benefit. In this paper, we present oneM2M global standard platform based UAV/drone management system based on the Interworking Proxy Entity (IPE) for drones. We also show our implementation and demonstration for the oneM2M based UAV/drone management system.