Drones for Business People and Investors

Drones for Business People
& Investors
Friday Innovation Lunch & Learn Sessions
Sono Corporate Center 7.8.16
Jake Berkowitz | JB Aerials
Hank Berkowitz | HB Publishing & Marketing Co.

What Is a Drone?
• An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly
known as a drone.
• AKA, an unmanned aircraft system (UAS)--an
aircraft without a human pilot aboard.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G61Zw8VyOu0
(c) 2016 HB Publishing & Marketing Co, LLC
and JB Aerials all rights reserved.
HBPubDev.com , JBAerials.com

Types of Drones
1. Target and decoy – providing ground
and aerial gunnery a target that
simulates an enemy aircraft or
missile.
2. Civil and commercial UAVs –
agriculture, aerial photography, real-
estate, contracting, data collection.
3. Logistics – delivering cargo.
4. Research and development –
improve UAV technologies.
5. Sport racing.

Market Trends
• U.S. and Israel dominate UAV global military market.
• Northrop Grumman and General Atomics dominate
commercial manufacturers.
• Leading civil UAV companies:
-- DJI (Chinese) $500m in global sales
-- Parrot (French) $110m
-- 3DRobotics (U.S.) $21m.
• 325,000 civilian drones registered with the U.S. FAA
(Feb 2016) out of an estimated 1 million sold.
• Universities offering drone research and training
programs or drone-based technical and journalism
degrees.

Bad Behavior Gets the Headlines
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/06/23/close-encounters-with-small-drones-on-rise/

Positive Uses of Drones: Civil
• Aerial crop surveys
• Aerial photography (real estate, building sites, stadium inspection, trade show sites)
• Advertising
• Search and rescue
• Power line and pipeline inspection
• Wildlife counting
• Delivery of medical supplies to otherwise inaccessible regions
• Detection of illegal hunting
• Reconnaissance operations
• Cooperative environment monitoring
• Border patrol missions
• Convoy protection
• Forest fire detection and monitoring
• Coordination of humanitarian aid
• Land surveying
• Fire and large-accident investigation
• Landslide measurement
• Illegal landfill detection
• Construction industry (warranty issues high rise building, underneath bridges)
• Crowd monitoring
• Locate missing persons, fugitives, those with dementia

Case Study: How contractors use drones
• “Drones can be very helpful for obtaining job site
progress photos, for doing safety checks and for
evaluating warranty issues without putting people in
harm’s way.
• Suppose you have a window leak on the eighth floor of
one of your buildings. You have two choices: You can
bring in a big crane and raise it up to the eighth floor so
a person in the bucket can take a look. Or you can have
a drone with a high definition camera hover outside
the leaky window and send back photos of the
damaged area.
• Drones are a lot faster, cheaper and safer than using
heavy equipment. Same thing for inspecting a tall
smokestack or for looking underneath a suspension
bridge.”
-- MIKE DUNHAM, Associated General Contractors of GA in
Association Adviser.com June 2016

Case Study: Elder/End of Life Care
• Cleveland-based Aerial Anthropology uses drones to
give a “virtual escape” to people with terminal illness/
living in hospice aerial shots of childhood hometowns or
favorite vacation spots, one final time.
• A University of Illinois professor received a $1.5 million
National Science Foundation grant to experiment with
drones that can perform simple household tasks, such
as transporting a bottles of medicine.
• Drone classes in Port Charlotte, FL retirement
community helps residents with hand-eye coordination.
https://vimeo.com/156861249

Case Study: Fitness
• Richard Branson’s Virgin Active uses drones to help
tennis players work on overheads, lobs, etc.
• University of Nevada at Reno researchers are
developing a drone that monitors and guides blind
runners
https://youtu.be/-M8BGPdXN7c

Case Study: Wildlife Research
• Samford University (Ala.) discovered two species of endangered fish in the state’s
waterways with the help of a drone. Drones can reach areas not easily
accessible by boat and can survey the water from a closer distance than a
helicopter.
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution uses drones affixed with petri dishes to
collect photographs and breath samples from humpback whales for scientific
research.

Positive Uses of Drones: Government
• Patrol borders
• Scout property
• Locate fugitives.

Positive Uses of Drones:
Media & Private Citizens
• Surveillance
• Recreation
• News-gathering
• Motion picture and film making
• Personal land assessment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SrBg_tQc0A

Until recently….many roadblocks
• Required FAA Section 333 exemption
• 40 hours of small craft flight training
• Endless paperwork

I’m ready to fly? What’s next?
• Buy unit online or at hobby store.
• Register unit with FAA (cheap, easy).
• Age 16+
• Fly below 400 feet and nowhere near airport.
• No flying at night.
• Must have spotter at all times
• NOT SO FAST!!!

Breakthrough FAA Legislation: 6.21.16
For small UAS craft (sUAS), between 0.55 and 55 pounds including payload:
• Your sUAS must be registered with FAA.
• Must have a licensed Remote Pilot in Command at all times.
• Must be at least 16 years of age
• Must pass a written test and then submit an application.
• For those holding a sport pilot license or higher, and with a
current flight review, a rule-specific exam can be taken at no
charge online at the faasafety.gov website.
• Other applicants must take a more comprehensive
examination at an aeronautical testing center.
• Must take a review course every two years.
• Applications may be submitted when the system begins in
August, 2016.

JB Aerials
www.JBAerials.com
Featured on News12 CT

• “A great eye and a very creative approach toward what you
are shooting.” --Sean Ryan, A+E Networks
• Really cool! The kids are way ahead of us.“
-Gary Klaben, Coyle Financial Counsel
• Love IT! I enjoyed the music, the longboarding and skiing
are really enjoyable. And too cool.“
-- Fara Francis, Associated General Contractors
• “A great eye for this emerging medium.”
– Dan Stevens, President, WorkerBee.TV
• "LOVE the aerial photos from our wedding!“
--Natalie Robinson D'Andrea

JB Aerials
Questions
Show and Tell

Drones for Business People and Investors

Recommended

Recommended

More Related Content

Viewers also liked

Viewers also liked (13)

Recently uploaded

Recently uploaded (20)

Drones for Business People and Investors