Thedroneoffice.com Website Review

DELIVER TECHNOLOGY SERVING YOUR VISION AND A   SENSE OF PURPOSE. Drones are part of digital transformation. They create value as a tool for digitization and automation of operations. They can unlock significant value to the benefit of organisations, their customers and their employees. In the not-so-distant future, drones will not only be « flying sensors ». Eventually they will perform actions, as it is already the case in agriculture in Japan. And soon they even will carry goods to remote places with limited or challenged road infrastructures. The professional use of drones, also known as Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), by companies and civil organisations is rapidly expanding. One of their first area of application involved alleviating organizations’ challenges in their Dull, Dangerous, or Di*ty (the 3Ds) missions. Coupled with sensors available at reasonable prices, they were used to take photos and videos. Today, ultra-high resolution cameras are commonly available. Similarly, other types of sensors have been adapted to professional drones (thermal imagery, LIDAR). As a result, the quantity and variety of data collected is expanding.  At the same time the span of use cases in an industrial or professional environment is growing fast. Presumably one of the next technological milestones will be the automation of collected data processing through algorithms and artificial intelligence, possibly onboard to save telecommunications bandwidth. Equally important, drones capable of flying beyond visual line of sight, over longer distances, with the remote pilot as a back-up in case of emergency, will gradually make their way into the commercial market.  The drone ecosystem is complex, regulated, and fast-changing. For one thing most players are specialists of a specific building block within the value chain (platform manufacturers, software developers, pilots, operators, training centres…).  With that in mind, it can prove difficult to gain a 360° perspective on a safe and innovative drone roadmap and build a powerful use case.