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Drones for Disinfection: State Farm Arena, Home of Atlanta Hawks, Brings Lucid Drone Tech to the Game

March 1, 2021 by Miriam McNabb 9 Comments

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The award-winning State Farm Arena, home of the Atlanta Hawks, is the first in the NBA to use drones for disinfection, as the arena prepares to host the annual NBA All-Star Festivities and start the second half of the 2020-21 season. State Farm Arena has brought on Lucid Drone Technologies to use their D1 Disinfecting Drone (D1) to help in sanitizing the 17,500 seat venue … [Read more...] about Drones for Disinfection: State Farm Arena, Home of Atlanta Hawks, Brings Lucid Drone Tech to the Game

Drones and Insurance are Moving Closer All the Time: AeroVironment Collaborates with DroneInsurance.com

September 26, 2018 by Miriam McNabb 2 Comments

Insurance is taking a more important role in the drone industry, as InsurTech and drone insurance companies collaborate with hardware and software providers. Leading commercial and defense drone systems provider AeroVironment announced a collaboration with REIN's DroneInsurance.com, a digital drone insurance portal.  DroneInsurance.com will offer commercial drone insurance … [Read more...] about Drones and Insurance are Moving Closer All the Time: AeroVironment Collaborates with DroneInsurance.com

High Resolution Thermal Imaging for Drones: Changing the Game on Building Inspections

July 25, 2018 by Miriam McNabb 3 Comments

 Kespry, the leading drone-based aerial intelligence solution provider, today announced new high-resolution thermal inspection capabilities for commercial property and industrial facilities. It's a technology that may mean inspections by drone become standard operating procedure.  Drones already provide efficiencies in thermal inspections, but only go halfway - they can't … [Read more...] about High Resolution Thermal Imaging for Drones: Changing the Game on Building Inspections

Drone Mapping Gets Better and Better: DroneDeploy Releases Live Map, Map Creation in Real-Time

February 16, 2018 by Miriam McNabb 9 Comments

Drone technology is evolving at an incredible pace these days, but few new announcements really offer a really game-changing - or work changing - feature.  This one is different.  A few years ago, the ability to create a map from drone data in real time would have been unthinkable - but now DroneDeploy, the world's leading drone mapping software platform, has done just … [Read more...] about Drone Mapping Gets Better and Better: DroneDeploy Releases Live Map, Map Creation in Real-Time

Toro Invests in GreenSight Agronomics to Integrate Drones and Irrigation Systems

February 14, 2018 by Miriam McNabb 2 Comments

Agriculture is one of the top verticals for the drone industry.  A study by the Farm Journal says that about thirty percent of farmers in the US are already using drone technology; another 30 percent say they'll use them this year.  Market reports put the value of the agriculture sector at over $2 billion in the next few years.  The ROI for the sector is already clear - and … [Read more...] about Toro Invests in GreenSight Agronomics to Integrate Drones and Irrigation Systems

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