"Maximizing Data Collection and Rental Requests in Drone-Based IIoT Net" by Chuyu Li, Kwan Wu Chin et al.
Many industries now rely on drones to monitor infrastructures. In this respect, this article considers maximizing the revenue of an Industrial Internet of Things operator that provides two services: 1) data trading; and 2) drones rental. In service 1), the operator sells data of locations/points it acquired via drones. For service 2), it rents idle drones to users. The problem at hand is to determine the allocation of drones to services 1) and 2) that maximizes the operator's revenue over a given planning horizon. We outline a novel integer linear program (ILP) to solve the said problem, ...