Three years ago, when he started playing with drones, Skycatch founder Christian Sanz focused on creating the code for controlling them. But when a construction firm asked him to take aerial photos, he realized there was more money in the data drones collect than in the machines themselves. Today, industrial-strength clients (mining, agriculture, solar energy, etc.) pay top dollar for on-the-fly intel.
Christian Sanz Sees Drones as Powerful Data-Capture Devices
The money in autonomous aerial vehicles isn't in the drones. It's in the data.
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