UAV for Competitive Intelligence
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The american Tayzu Robotics has signed an agreement for cooperation with Verizon Wireless. The two companies intend to develop a new unmanned aerial vehicle which will act as a platform for wireless internet based on a SkyWire 4G LTE router made by NimbleLink. Tayzu aims to profit from the enormous amount of data gathered by the autonomous vehicles. Scott Schwalbe, director of NimbleLink, says that the combination of his company’s products and Tayzu’s aerial solutions will march the cellular world to a new future.
There are many cases where the abilities of UAVs produce profits for the business sector by various means: they can be used for various products’ deliveries, they can benefit agriculture with their different capabilities, while this latest ability which combines the cellular communication solutions with the UAV data storage is one of the first of its kind in this area. Many companies could make valuable commercial use of the data gathered with visual imaging capabilities, microphones recording peripheral sounds and other sensors that can measure temperatures, air pressure and more.
Different commercial companies could channel the data gathered for competitive intelligence, thus adjusting their products to the specific needs of the area where a market is to be established. For example, information collected on an area with especially high temperature throughout the year could indicate, after data analysis, a need for mean to cope with high temperature. It should be pointed out that relying on the information gathered by the UAV alone is not enough, since that information needs to be combined with information from various sources and analyze it in order to reacher a more accurate conclusion using integrative analysis tools. That way the final product developed by the companies will be adjusted and more fit for local needs, which will cause profits to be several times higher.
