Understanding the full extent of damage to infrastructure after incident like a storm or fire is a hugely important — and valuable — service. So how would you go about it? You could send some people in (once all the hazards are removed) to manually document the damage, renting equipment like cherry pickers and scissor lifts, and then collating all that data to build a full picture. Or you could get some smart, flying robots to do it for you. Aerial by Drone made the smart choice — using drones to provide aerial inspection services to the building and insurance industry. And they’ve gotten very good at it. They regularly deliver huge amounts of drone data to their clients — comprehensive inspection sets with important visual details. But getting this data to their clients wasn’t as efficient as the rest of their operations — often, they relied on on USB sticks and external hard drives, using couriers or mail services . It was time for a change. Cloud-based processing and ...