drone operations

In news that came as a surprise to customers and partners, Verizon Skyward closed their drone software business yesterday.  Started in 2013, Skyward.io was purchased by telecomm giant Verizon in 2017.  Yesterday, the company sent customers an email that announced their intention to close: We are announcing today that Skyward, …

DroneUp acquires AirMap: combining global airspace management with DroneUp’s network, fleet, and infrastructure. Tom Walker, DroneUp’s CEO, doesn’t do things by halves. DroneUp has grown swiftly as a drone services provider; developing proprietary software, infrastructure, and a robust, well-trained pilot network.  They’ve been instrumental in defining the boundaries of what …

The drone industry is growing, and enterprise drone programs are expanding fast.  Employees from a wide variety of industries are adding drones to their toolkits, helping them to do their jobs more safely and efficiently.  Drones are getting easier to fly and more automated all the time, but there is …

ANRA Technologies​ is a major name in UAS Traffic Management (UTM) around the world.   Now, the company announces the release of ​ANRA MissionManager™: a new version of their drone operations software platform​. ANRA’s deep expertise in UTM and involvement in testing scenarios that involve multiple flights under a vast …

In this week’s DRONELIFE Minute Survey, we asked drone operators a question that manufacturers, resellers, software suppliers and more want an answer to: are companies buying drones this year?  And if so – how much are they spending? There have been a lot of new hardware releases in 2020.  DJI …

Despite the current COVID crisis, there has been a lot of good news from the drone industry lately – and one is that LAANC use is accelerating.  This piece of positive data comes from drone operations platform Kittyhawk, developers of the FAA’s first mobile app, B4UFly.  In a blog post, …

AiRXOS is poised to be a major player in 2020, and the announcement of 11 new partners is the just the beginning. The provider of unmanned traffic management (UTM) systems has expanded their Air Mobility Platform Ecosystem, adding 11 partners with leadership in aspects of drone technology from law firms …

Two leading drone data software solutions are joining forces at DistribuTECH this week to show utility professionals and commercial drone operators a complete workflow system – delivering world class drone maps with context and AI-driven image intelligence. DistribuTECH is the utility and energy industry’s leading technology conference.  It’s a growing …

Leading drone airspace administration platform AirMap has introduced that David Hose will turn into CEO of the corporate.  The firm’s co-founders, Ben Marcus and Greg McNeal, will stay in lively roles in firm operations. AirMap has been a fast-moving success story since its inception in 2015.  In his put up …

DRONELIFE named French firm Delair-Tech as one of many prime European drone firms final yr – not simply due to their time within the trade and strong enterprise answer, however due to the thought management they supply. Silicon valley big Intel, closely invested within the drone trade and a bellweather for …