Driving Drones in Construction

Drones represent a huge opportunity in the construction industry today--and in the future. Goldman Sachs, for instance, predicts a $100 billion market opportunity for drones by 2020. Naturally, consumer and military are big opportunities, but it actually predicts that the fastest growth will happen in businesses and civil governments, with an expectation that they will spend $13 billion on drones between now and 2020. The construction industry is one that is quickly discovering the benefits of drones in the space--and some technology companies are making big moves that will make it easier to do inspection-surveying. Case in point: Topcon Positioning Group recently announced the Intel Perpetual License Inspection-Surveying provision for the Intel Falcon 8 Drone – Topcon Edition will now be included with the system. The license will include flight planning using desktop software, quick survey flights, allowing planning of automated flights in the field, and more.