Technology Roadmap: Drone Delivery - Amazon Prime Air

Technology roadmapping is becoming more popular in the recent days because of the value it delivers to the organizations, helping them plan strategically and align the technology with business objectives. This paper presents a creation of technology roadmap for drones, used by Amazon for their latest service Amazon Prime Air. The competition in the e-commerce industry is growing every day, and one major area where it makes a huge difference is the shipping prices and time for the delivery. To tackle this problem and overtake its competition, Amazon has come up with the drone delivery concept. Shipping costs and time are what have driven Amazon to choose drones for a faster delivery, low costs, low emissions, and happy customers. It is always difficult to predict the engineering technologies and advancements because of how fast the improvements are taking place. Without any historical data, it is not so easy to forecast them. Drones have been around us since not long ago, which is why predicting the future is not so easy. The focus of this paper is on the drones, and Amazon is going to use for 30 min Prime Air deliveries directly to home. Time is very precious today and that is one of the driving factors for the idea of using drones. Drones are now able to serve the military, for surveillance (wildlife), to help in search and rescue operations, and in shooting movies and sports. Drones are proving to help us in every aspect possible because of the pace at which the technology is improving every day [1]

Economic Impacts of Future Changes in the Energy System—National Perspectives

International audienceIn a climate constrained future, hybrid energy-economy model coupling gives additional insight into interregional competition, trade, industrial delocalisation and overall macroeconomic consequences of decarbonising the energy system. Decarbonising the energy system is critical in mitigating climate change. This chapter summarises modelling methodologies developed in the ETSAP community to assess economic impacts of decarbonising energy systems at a national level. The preceding chapter focuses on a global perspective. The modelling studies outlined here show that burden sharing rules and national revenue recycling schemes for carbon tax are critical for the long-term viability of economic growth and equitable engagement on combating climate change. Traditional computable general equilibrium models and energy systems models solved in isolation can misrepresent the long run carbon cost and underestimate the demand response caused by technological paradigm shifts in a decarbonised energy system. The approaches outlined within have guided the first evidence based decarbonisation legislation and continue to provide additional insights as increased sectoral disaggregation in hybrid modelling approaches is achieved

Kaiser Permanente Internet of Things (IoT) Roadmap

The Internet of Things (IoTs) program has been the most successful program for any organization in order to analyze the data and use those data to build a successful company. The healthcare market has consistently grown over time due to population growth, high economic growth, and the availability of technology. This paper is developed about Kaiser Permanente one of the biggest healthcare organization in the US. This organization is not just a hospital; it’s a giant healthcare and insurance provider at the same time. The objective of this research is therefore to create a technology roadmap for the business to prioritize the characteristics of the product. The Kaiser Permanente’s technology roadmap is created by taking into account four variables, namely product characteristics, market drivers, resources, and technology. Also, these variables are mapped together to create a general roadmap for technology. The roadmap is also split into a time frame of short-term and long-term objectives