Challenges and Revenues for Service Providers
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by David Benowitz
1y ago
Service provider revenues trend upwards and a breakdown of the challenges these firms face The rise of the services market and the “droneprenuer” is nothing new, with a sea of content and forums out there on how to start. Each year we like to distill findings on service provider revenues and where providers are making the most money (find last year’s article here). However, this year we’re changing things up, focusing more broadly on the annual trends and what challenges these service providers face. The goal of this article is to paint a clearer picture for all industry stakeholders on the pr ..read more
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Participate in Our 2022 Survey Today
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by David Benowitz
1y ago
Have your voice heard in the industry’s longest running survey We just announced our sixth Drone Market Sector Survey, established to provide clear benchmarks for the industry. This survey is the online research portion of our upcoming 2022 Market Sector Report, and will provide a comprehensive look across drone purchases, service providers, business and public agency buyers and software services. The 2022 survey is more comprehensive than ever before, by building on top of our previous efforts and diving deeper into: What types of users are deploying advanced drone operations (BVLOS, ov ..read more
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Autonomous Drones in 2022
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by David Benowitz
1y ago
Just how automated are drone operations today? We dive into the data. Last time we covered autonomy we debated twitter spats and laid the foundation for looking at drone autonomy. This included adopting the levels of driving automation to drone flight and establishing that autonomous drone solutions goes beyond just simple flight – covering everything from data capture and processing to analyzing and acting. Autonomous drone solutions require more than just automating flight. But just how common are autonomous drones today? And at what part of the drone stack is automation happening ..read more
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Drones Lead the Way for Everything Uncrewed
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by David Benowitz
1y ago
Drone industry likely to be the birthplace of leaders in the growing mobile industrial robot / uncrewed ground vehicle space While the industry has set its sights on using the term “drone”, these devices are truly just another domain of uncrewed or robotic systems being deployed by industrial users. And often they’re the first adopted, as drones tend to be relatively affordable and mature in their capabilities. We’ve seen a few industry leaders slowly crossing the boundaries between the drone and growing industrial robotics sector. This includes DroneDeploy’s acquisition of Rocos, a ..read more
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How Has 2021 Changed the Drone Industry?
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by David Benowitz
2y ago
Key Takeaways from DroneAnalyst’s Fifth Annual Market Report In this post, I’ll illustrate some of the market trends over the past year using data from our fifth Drone Market Sector Report and describe large shifts that have impacted the industry in 2021. While the full report covers everything from purchasing factors to challenges faced by each industry, we broke the key shifts down into four key insights: Business and Agency Spending Surges Commercial Drone Hardware Market Shakeup Starts Services Revenues Reach Sustainable Levels Software Market Matures and Consolidates The repor ..read more
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Finding the Money for Service Providers
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by David Benowitz
3y ago
How much can commercial drone pilots make? What industries pay the most? And more. Improvements in drone products and regulatory changes have caused a wave of photographers and other professionals to become commercial drone pilots. This may mean joining a services firm or going at it alone as a “droneprenuer”. The rise of drone service providers in the early days saw a few “winners” scaling to form larger DSP businesses (CyberHawk, SkySkopes, DroneBase, etc), while others have turned their piloting skills into a profitable small business. However, that is not always the case. There have been s ..read more
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Participate in Our 2021 Market Survey
Drone Analyst
by David Benowitz
3y ago
Have your voice heard in the industry’s longest running annual survey We just announced our fifth Drone Market Sector Survey, established to provide clear benchmarks for the industry. This survey is the online research portion of our upcoming 2021 Market Sector Report (to be released in September), and will provide a comprehensive look across drone purchases, service providers, business and public agency buyers and software services. The 2021 survey is more comprehensive than ever before, by building on top of our previous efforts and diving deeper into: How new autonomous features are impact ..read more
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The Rise of Open-Source Drones
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by David Benowitz
3y ago
Amidst Global Tensions and A Surge of New Manufacturers, Open-Source Has Risen as a Key Winner With much of the industry discussing the pressures on DJI, rise of Blue sUAS offerings such as the Skydio X2 and the promise of autonomous drones, there has been one consistent force driving many of these larger trends. That is the rise of drones relying on open-source technologies, and the strengthening of open-source protocols themselves. In this analysis, we break down data and share insights into the trajectory of the open-source drone ecosystem, and explore the impacts of open-source in the comi ..read more
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How Large is the Drone Market?
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by David Benowitz
3y ago
New DroneAnalyst Research Dives Into Market Size in Initial Hardware Sector Report The history of the drone industry is also the history of hype and oversized forecasts. Whether that be the tale of Lily Robotics or Goldman’s $100 Billion market estimate by 2020, we’ve seen it all. And it’s understandable, drones are a new, unique piece of technology and it’s hard to predict how consumers and enterprises will adopt them. Making matters worse, there are only a small handful of public companies who publish financial data, and these firms make up just a small slice of the market. While historicall ..read more
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Why the Industry Still Relies on DJI
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by David Benowitz
3y ago
Despite geopolitical tensions and security concerns, the drone industry’s reliance on DJI remains firm. We explore why. While headlines have focused on DJI drones being “banned” or “blacklisted” from the US market, many following the industry will know just how little impact these US government actions have had on the majority of drone sales and DJI’s market dominance. While it is worth going into the nuances of DJI’s Entity List addition – which is not a ban – we are focusing this article on how DJI has reacted and the role it plays in the industry. Despite ..read more
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