CONFIRMATION OF SUCCESSFUL DELIVERY BY AN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV)

摘要

Methods and devices for confirmation of successful delivery by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are disclosed. A UAV is configured to navigate to a delivery destination, authenticate a receiving zone at the delivery destination, release, in dependence upon authentication of the receiving zone, the package into the receiving zone, capture, by a camera of the UAV, an image of the receiving zone, and generate delivery confirmation data including the image the receiving zone. A recipient device is configured to detect, by the device disposed in a receiving zone for receiving a package, a UAV in proximity to a receiving zone, authenticate the UAV, detect delivery of the package in the receiving zone, capture, by a camera of the device, an image of the package, and generate delivery confirmation data including the image the package and location data obtained from a GPS sensor in the device.