4DSky Explained: The DePIN Aviation Network Built for Drone Safety, with James from Neuron

Yeah, so what interested me the most originally just getting into it was the drone side.

Like I have my own drone.

I fly it all the time with my mining farm tours that I do.

And where I saw this was like where we see the future going.

And we all know like, As much as people might love or hate drones based off of some of the challenges in the past, we're seeing drones slowly being used more and more for a delivery system for packages.

We see Amazon doing it in a number of cities throughout the US.

Yes, it's actually a thing for some people that might not believe it.

But yeah, delivering packages via a massive drone is a real thing.

And Amazon actually put in for a patent to deliver drones as well from a blimp.

like there's actually a patent pending out there to have a amazon warehouse in a blimp like in a blimp and drop those drones down to go ahead and it's all to save money uh you know you're ordering a pack of stickers that weigh less than a pound here on my desk like you could have a drone deliver that you don't have to have somebody deliver that so that being said that's what really interested me was like You know, you have multiple different use cases, not just like delivery drones.

But for me, I'm always forward thinking when I'm looking at new deep in projects and I'm like, where does this actually have a real world application? I'll be totally honest.

It is the most innovative one that I've seen out there in a very, very long time.

So I think a good question here is, you know, we have a lot of other aircraft tracking projects out there in the space.

What makes 4D Sky so different, especially when it comes down to, let's say something as simple as like drone delivery?

Yeah, so that's a fantastic question.

So what you're looking at, when you have these sensor networks, and a lot of deep end projects have the same problem is, what they do is they have this network of sensors or physical systems, and they connect them into this central server.

And then what they do is they sell an API feed to the customers from the central server.

Now, obviously, what happens if that central server gets attacked? We're in a very weird time at the moment, politically, where There's adversarial countries out there who may want to knock out your air traffic control systems for whatever reason.

We know the problems that centralized air traffic control brings.

It was being discussed repeatedly amongst the U.S. administration over the last 12 to 18 months about how fragile these systems are.

They centralize everything.

So not only can they be attacked, they can fail.

You also end up with, during high usage, these things start becoming under a lot of strain and pressure.

And so the latency of that data starts becoming a lot larger.

So you end up with data basically being old.