Drones are currently flying in the sky and it is difficult to trace who is responsible if an incident occurs. So in the UK, regulations are under way where drones will be required to have some sort of electronic number plate or identification.
As we quote from MSN, drones will be required to have electronic number plates so they can be tracked by police and relevant security services in plans being worked out by regulators and the UK government.
So later, drones passing through the air will be equipped with 'remote ID' technology, allowing drone speed, location, altitude, user location and take-off point to be tracked.
The drone population in the UK continues to increase with an estimated number of 900,000 commercial drones in the next 5 years. Not only in England, similar initiatives are also being carried out by authorities in the United States.
The US has legislated for such a system to be released in September this year under which each drone must have a 'unique identifier' broadcast along with the coordinates of its aerial position in real time.
There are indeed concerns that drones are being used by irresponsible parties such as terrorists. So this kind of rule is made to prevent unwanted events.
The UK government is preparing to spend £8 million in order to deploy anti-drone detectors around nuclear plants, transport hubs, oil rigs and other sensitive infrastructure across the UK to protect against aerial terrorist attacks.