Digitization is Driving the Drone Market in Enterprise: The Evolution of 3D Models and Digital Twins
“Scale” is a word of the month in the drone industry. While large industry and Fortune 500 companies have been using drones to gather data for years now, a combination of regulatory gray areas, complex workflows, and the lack of a clear and easily realized ROI has held many industries back from integrating drones into their operations at scale.
That seems to be changing. Greater clarity on regulations, more automation in drone platforms, easier workflows and better analytics are delivering on something critically important to enterprise businesses: digitization. Digital Transformation and the efficiencies realized are so important to the post-COVID enterprise that there is a 2-letter abbreviation for it: DX. Digitization is the process of converting data into a computer-readable, or digital, format – and according to PTC, more than 70% of enterprise companies are actively engaged in DX projects.
Drones and Digital Twins
Drones are instrumental in the process. Previous efforts at digitization for industries whose business is based on a portfolio of field assets – like telecom towers, transportation infrastructure, or energy – involved moving to large ERP systems and uploading documents or images to them. While better than a paper-based system, this stops short of true digitization. Drones, with their unique ability to carry a camera and fly intricate patterns entirely around a field asset with enough precision to generate a true, accurate digital twin of an asset, are a game changer. With digital twins, companies can apply AI-based analytics and reporting against immersive 3D models of field assets, enabling completely new value propositions and efficiencies.
Continue reading: https://dronelife.com/2022/10/05/drones-and-digital-twins-is-digitization-driving-drone-industry-scale/
“Scale” is a word of the month in the drone industry. While large industry and Fortune 500 companies have been using drones to gather data for years now, a combination of regulatory gray areas, complex workflows, and the lack of a clear and easily realized ROI has held many industries back from integrating drones into their operations at scale.
That seems to be changing. Greater clarity on regulations, more automation in drone platforms, easier workflows and better analytics are delivering on something critically important to enterprise businesses: digitization. Digital Transformation and the efficiencies realized are so important to the post-COVID enterprise that there is a 2-letter abbreviation for it: DX. Digitization is the process of converting data into a computer-readable, or digital, format – and according to PTC, more than 70% of enterprise companies are actively engaged in DX projects.
Drones and Digital Twins
Drones are instrumental in the process. Previous efforts at digitization for industries whose business is based on a portfolio of field assets – like telecom towers, transportation infrastructure, or energy – involved moving to large ERP systems and uploading documents or images to them. While better than a paper-based system, this stops short of true digitization. Drones, with their unique ability to carry a camera and fly intricate patterns entirely around a field asset with enough precision to generate a true, accurate digital twin of an asset, are a game changer. With digital twins, companies can apply AI-based analytics and reporting against immersive 3D models of field assets, enabling completely new value propositions and efficiencies.
Continue reading: https://dronelife.com/2022/10/05/drones-and-digital-twins-is-digitization-driving-drone-industry-scale/
