In our Drone Service Provider Business Guide, you’ll learn how to earn an income flying drones. Read it now.
In this post, we’ll share where and how you can immediately start providing drone services.
Drone Services You Can Offer Today
Drone technology has applications across a variety of industries. To own and operate a successful drone business, you’ll need to decide which industries to target and what services to provide your clients. If you need help deciding which services to offer, here are a few popular ideas to consider:
- Real Estate Photography
- Cinematography
- Wedding Photography
- Mapping and Surveying
- Building and Insurance Inspections
- Search and Rescue
This article by The Balance takes a deeper dive into the top drone business ideas.
Industries Your Drone Business Can Serve
If you’re still wondering how many job opportunities there are for drone pilots, here are just a few examples of how drones are advancing a variety of industries.
Construction
In construction, drone site data can be used across a project’s lifecycle to reduce risk and effectively manage more with less. Here are a few ways aerial intelligence is being used to transform the construction industry.
- Jobsite Reports and Progress Monitoring—using aerial imagery to track and report daily progress to reduce claims and improve the accuracy of scope, schedule, and cost estimates.
- Security and Monitoring
- Monitoring job sites with aerial surveys of equipment and materials to protect against loss of material and reduce claims.
Insurance
Aerial intelligence is being used in the insurance industry to optimize risk assessments and claims management. Several applications include:
- Roof Inspection
- Obtaining detailed aerial imagery and measurements of roofs to accelerate inspections and improve quality assurance.
- Crop and Field Damage
- Applying quantitative measures to fire, hail, water, and wind damage to reduce assessment time, accelerate claims management, and reduce bias and fraud.
- Property assessment
- Using drones to produce high-resolution aerial imagery of property before and after a damaging event.
Energy
Drones are replacing traditional inspection techniques in the energy sector. Managers are using them to inspect the condition of key assets like power plant and pipelines, which in turn helps to reduce onsite safety risks by eliminating the need to use humans for dangerous tasks. Here are a few examples of how drones are being used to transform this industry:
- Right-of-Way—drones are accelerating inspections and protecting uptime by monitoring right-of-ways.
- Pipeline Integrity—managers are reducing the risk of high-consequence events by using drones to visually inspect pipeline conditions.
- 3D Asset Analysis—increase the accuracy of asset inventory and reduce climbs by using drones to extract antennas, plumness, rad center, top height, bottom height, width, height, surface area, azimuth, and down tilt measurements.
Agriculture
Today drones are being used to make smarter decisions about farm management. When paired with the right software, drones make it easier to count plants, measure plant height, monitor field performance and much more. Take a look at a few ways drone technology is advancing the agriculture industry:
- Plant Counting and Yield Prediction—farmers can improve the accuracy of yield forecasts and accelerate scouting, collecting and analyzing data by using drones to generate plant counts and forecast yield based on surveys of row-based plants.
- Field Water Pooling—drones can also help identify standing water in pre-emergent fields, determine flood damage, and monitor permanent water features to improve the accuracy of insurance claims and yield forecasting.
- Stockpile Monitoring—to improve the accuracy of materials management, farmers are using drones to monitor stockpile volume of feed, fertilizer, and other agriculture products.
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