Unmanned Aircraft (a.k.a. drones) are finding their way into IoT implementations. This presentation explains what’s driving the adoption and how drones relate to IoT and cloud data.

1. November, 2014
Colin Snow
CEO and Founder
Why Drones Are The Future of IoT

2. IoT
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Image credit: GE

3. Why?
Drones are the future of IoT because they:
– are not static
– are deployable
– can carry flexible payloads
– can be re-programmable in mission
– can measure just about anything, anywhere

4. Hobby
Open-source
Mass produced
Cheap
Commercial applications
[Cloud device]
Extensible
High ROI
Specialized use
Proprietary
Custom made
Expensive
A new kind of drone

5. Aircraft Sensors/Payloads Ground Control &
Communications
SoftwareAvionics
Unmanned ‘systems’
Commercial Applications

6. Multirotor

7. Fixed wing

8. Fact or Fiction?
It’s possible to run a
drone in France from
your smartphone in
California.

9. Deployable
• Cloud control for drones
• Addressable smart drone management
platform controls multiple drones, from
anywhere, on any device.
• Founded 2013
• San Francisco based

10. Deployable
4G telemetry device
enables any drone
with real-time data
transmission,
processing and
sharing

11. Control a fleet
Runs missions
anywhere in the world
Multiple drones

12. Flexible payloads
• Unmanned aerial systems and remote
sensing company
• Founded in 2010
• Provides an end-to-end solution for aerial
data gathering, processing and analysis
across a wide range of civilian industries
• Operates out of offices in Indianapolis,
Raleigh, and Toronto

13. Flexible payloads
Hot-swappable sensors

14. Reprogrammable in-mission
• Swiss company based in Cheseaux-
Lausanne.
• Founded in 2009 as a spin-off of the EPFL -
based Laboratory of Intelligence Systems
• Develop, assemble and market
autonomous mini-drones and related
software solutions for civil professional
applications such as accurate mapping of
mining sites, quarries, forests, construction
sites, crops, etc.

15. Reprogrammable in-mission

16. Measure just about anything
LiDAR unit
Image credit: Phoenix Aerial Systems, Velodyne Lidar

17. Measure just about anything
Image credit: Section 3D, Jason Amadori.com,
Eliminates multiple sensors
Cloud based dynamic models

18. Thank you
Learn more:
• Web http://droneanalyst.com
• Twitter @droneanalyst
• Email colin@droneanalyst.com