Advances in machine learning, data management, and cloud computing are having a significant impact on the market for drone-based mapping and intelligence gathering. Even as satellite-based imaging gains steam, drones appear to be extending their lead closer to Earth. We are in the midst of a renaissance in drone-based aerial intelligence. From counting the number of koalas in the Australian outback to detecting enemy combatants inside of buildings, drones seem to be everywhere at the moment. The surge in drone use is great news for Krishnan Hariharan, the CEO of Kespry, a 30-person California drone AI startup.

Kespry, a drone-based aerial intelligence solution provider, and DroneBase, a drone services company, have announced a partnership to enable insurance, mining, and aggregates enterprises across North America to expand aerial analytics implementation across their worksites. Kespry's customers will now be able to leverage DroneBase to manage their Kespry deployments as part of Kespry's new Bring Your Own Drone (BYOD) program. BYOD includes a new platform pricing model designed to meet the expanding enterprise aerial intelligence requirements of multi-site mining and aggregates companies, as well as large-scale residential and commercial property insurers. The combination of Kespry and DroneBase brings the best of the platform and services worlds together, offering a cost-effective, productive way of using drone-based analytics across the largest insurance, mining, and aggregates businesses. "We're very pleased to work with DroneBase and its team of dedicated, aerial intelligence professionals to further expand Kespry insurance, mining and aggregates deployments across the country," said George Mathew, CEO, Kespry.

Kespry and DroneBase have announced a partnership to enable insurance, mining, and aggregates enterprises across North America to expand aerial analytics implementation across their worksites. Kespry's customers will now be able to leverage DroneBase to manage their Kespry deployments as part of Kespry's new Bring Your Own Drone (BYOD) program. BYOD includes a new platform pricing model designed to meet the expanding enterprise aerial intelligence requirements of multi-site mining and aggregates companies, as well as large-scale residential and commercial property insurers. The combination of Kespry and DroneBase brings the best of the platform and services worlds together, offering a cost-effective, productive way of using drone-based analytics across the largest insurance, mining, and aggregates businesses. "We're very pleased to work with DroneBase and its team of dedicated, aerial intelligence professionals to further expand Kespry insurance, mining and aggregates deployments across the country," said George Mathew, CEO, Kespry.

Jennifer Malandra has eight years' active service in the Navy and a Naval Academy education. Both are in search of civilian jobs in the highly competitive tech industry. They and 23 others are wrapping up a 10-day program run by BreakLine, an educational program sponsored by a who's who of Silicon Valley companies in search of bright candidates. The focus today was artificial intelligence and drones. Both specialties are creating jobs as a result of automation and robotics.

Jennifer Malandra has eight years' active service in the Navy and a Naval Academy education. Both are in search of civilian jobs in the highly competitive tech industry. They and 23 others are wrapping up a 10-day program run by BreakLine, an educational program sponsored by a who's who of Silicon Valley companies in search of bright candidates. The focus today was artificial intelligence and drones. Both specialties are creating jobs as a result of automation and robotics.

We usually think of aerial drones as consumer technology or used by the military to fly pilot-less missions. But there is an entire industry dedicated to using drones in industrial settings like mining, construction, and insurance. The technology of industrial drones is fascinating and involves components such as ruggedized flight bodies, GPS, and LIDAR, in addition to cameras. These industrial drones combine data collection from a network of sensors with advanced image processing techniques and artificial intelligence. So I could learn more, public relations ninja, Laura Hoang, introduced me to George Mathew, CEO of industrial drone supplier, Kespry.

Today I'm excited to speak with Parker Clark who is the CTO at Kespry. To start off our chat, could you describe who Kespry is? Kespry is an aerial intelligence company that's focused on aggregates, mining, AEC, and insurance. We build the whole stack, which includes the drone, all the data capture, backend data processing, and analytics. For someone who has many years of experience in Aggregates, Construction, Insurance or Mining but has no experience with drone technology -- how easy would it be for them to use Kespry? We've been autonomous and focused on autonomy since the first day this company existed.

Given how much writing I have been doing about both productized analytics and digital twins, it was fascinating to take a look at Kespry's Drone-as-a-Service offering, which brings to life a novel integration of both of these concepts in an exciting new domain. Drones can provide businesses with types of data they've never had access to before, enabling decision makers to have a more complete picture of their operations. Last week, I had the chance to talk with George Mathew, CEO of Kespry, about the logic driving his products and the impact of the new FAA regulations that have opened up many new possibilities. Over the past decade, we've grown accustomed (if not always comfortable) with drones being used in warfare to protect human lives. But the use of drones is greatly expanding into the commercial and private sector, as well as our everyday lives.