EBI Consulting’s Drone-Powered Business Benefits Happen at the Speed of Flight
The drone market is “a market opportunity that’s too large to ignore,” according to Goldman Sachs. The industry has received over $1 billion in funding to date, and it’s predicted that commercial drones could bring a 100,000 job boost to the U.S. economy by 2025.
Even better, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) regulations have brought much-needed flexibility to drone pilots. As 5G rolls out, drone technology can advance even further, with high-resolution 4K computer vision, advanced image processing, high-performance computing, machine learning, and AI.
While drone technology has its roots in military battlescape maneuvers, it’s now transforming business operations by inspecting buildings, monitoring construction sites, accelerating insurance underwriting decisions, building 3D models, and so much more. Drone-powered mapping, aerial video and photography, and active monitoring all provide inspection data that is much more precise than what the human eye captures.
Drones also work faster than humans do, and they can easily gather images and data from areas that are too dangerous to access manually. As a result, organizations can streamline their operations, save valuable time and money, and do it all at scale.
For organizations of all sizes, a drone-powered future looks bright [and profitable].
The Challenge:
EBI Consulting was selected to inspect the facades of several large Las Vegas casinos in a short period of time. However, physically scaling these buildings is dangerous and would have required an entire team, which was too time-consuming and expensive. They needed a cost-effective, quick way to gather crucial property data.
The Solution:
EBI Consulting needed a team that could handle all of the use cases, service types, and locations that their business model requires. When they learned about DroneUp’s end-to-end solutions, pilot qualification processes, multiple locations, and quick mobilization, they decided DroneUp was the perfect partner — not just for this project, but to help them scale overall business operations.
Business Impact:
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EBI Consulting sent results to its client within 10 days, far ahead of the three-week deadline.
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DroneUp’s streamlined data collection and analytics sharing capabilities has saved EBI Consulting hundreds of thousands of dollars in person-hours across multiple projects.
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Thanks to DroneUp’s cost savings, EBI Consulting was able to lower the price of its facade report product by $5,000, empowering them to win more projects.
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Using drones instead of lengthy physical inspections makes EBI Consulting’s inspections more convenient for property operators and less intrusive for guests and tenants.
"Our work with DroneUp is professional, timely, has tremendous quality, great content, and they’re a great group of people to work with.”
David Stewart
National Technical Business Development Account Executive - Acquisition Services, EBI Consulting
About EBI Consulting
EBI Consulting provides environmental risk and compliance management, due diligence, energy use reduction and management, and engineering services to organizations seeking to improve operations, lower costs, manage risk and exceed stakeholder expectations.