Ian Smith

In this most recent podcast, Ian Smith of Commercial Drones FM spends some time with Adam Bry of Skydio on the recent release of Skydio 2, the latest in their line of autonomous drones for commercial application.  The show has an interesting twist: Ian is both interviewing Adam and also …

Image Provided by Ware The drone industry excels at addressing expensive and slow processes that can be dramatically improved with aerial assets.  One San Francisco startup has identified a major need in a $1.9 trillion industry, and they’re solving it with a combination of easily available commercial hardware and their …

Image Provided by Ware San Francisco drone startup Ware is using Skydio drones and sophisticated sftware to handle inventory tracking for the warehouse industry.  Inventory tracking is both labor intensive and time-consuming: making it a perfect target for robotic assistance.  The Ware solution uses a drone to capture images of …

Think that drones are only good for flying outside?  Check out this Commercial Drones Podcast as Patrick Thévoz of Swiss-based Flyability talks to Commercial Drones Podcast host and industry expert Ian Smith. Indoor drone inspections have become an enormous ROI booster for energy companies who own and operate industrial assets. Patrick …

Back in March, automotive producer Ford introduced that its drone division had put ahead a suggestion to the FAA’s distant monitoring & ID aviation rulemaking committee. Our first impression was ‘Hold up, Ford has a drone division?’ After that, we had a have a look at the specifics of the …

In this episode of IndustrialDrones.FM, Ian Smith interviews Major General Marke “Hoot” Gibson on drone integration.  Gibson was Senior Advisor, UAS Integration on the FAA and is now the primary CEO of the NUAIR Alliance, a UAS check website in Syracuse, New York.  Tune in to study extra about this …

As we attain the top of 2017, it’s not possible to not look again on a 12 months within the drone trade with out recognizing the ups and downs of main producer, DJI. Most of the ups have in fact been product-related: The Spark hit the market, as did the …