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Nexus Marketplace Update: Drone & Aerial Inspection Systems
We've added the 108th category to The Nexus Marketplace: Drone & Aerial Inspection Systems.
At NexusCon 2024, we heard Lockheed Martin discuss their evolving drone inspection program.
And while this technology seems to still be in the early adopter phase, the use cases are abundant. Essentially, drone inspection can act as a autonomous and agile optical sensor, thermal sensor, security camera, professional photographer, and more.
One of the most common use cases I've come across is building envelop assessment for energy management. If a drone with thermal imaging can inspect where your building is leaking hot or cold air, you have a roadmap to saving more energy.
These devices are also incredible useful for BIM modeling, especially during the construction phases of a building when access can be difficult and status is continually changing.
Drones are also emerging into the security realm. While drone surveillance may sound dystopian to some in a human occupied space, in a data center with millions of square feet and a handful of employees, it’s quite effective.
Vendors such as Hammer Missions, Helios Visions, Joulea, FairFleet, and StructuraView are pioneering this category.
As the adoption of these tech continues, we'll eventually expand The Nexus Marketplace to multiple categories to differentiate between the broad array of use cases.
Our official Nexus Marketplace definition of this category is the following:
Drone & Aerial Inspection Systems are technologies that use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)—indoors or outdoors—to inspect, monitor, and document commercial building assets that are hard to access or expensive to survey manually. These systems capture high-resolution visual, thermal, and sensor data to produce condition evidence (e.g., roof defects, facade deterioration, envelope leakage), 3D models, and issue documentation for maintenance, compliance, insurance, and capital planning.
In addition to inspection, some solutions enable autonomous indoor drone patrols for security and operations monitoring, where drones navigate facilities on scheduled routes, stream live video/sensor feeds to a control center, and use AI-assisted analytics to flag anomalies, safety hazards, or unusual activity—reducing reliance on static camera coverage and routine guard patrols.
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We've added the 108th category to The Nexus Marketplace: Drone & Aerial Inspection Systems.
At NexusCon 2024, we heard Lockheed Martin discuss their evolving drone inspection program.
And while this technology seems to still be in the early adopter phase, the use cases are abundant. Essentially, drone inspection can act as a autonomous and agile optical sensor, thermal sensor, security camera, professional photographer, and more.
One of the most common use cases I've come across is building envelop assessment for energy management. If a drone with thermal imaging can inspect where your building is leaking hot or cold air, you have a roadmap to saving more energy.
These devices are also incredible useful for BIM modeling, especially during the construction phases of a building when access can be difficult and status is continually changing.
Drones are also emerging into the security realm. While drone surveillance may sound dystopian to some in a human occupied space, in a data center with millions of square feet and a handful of employees, it’s quite effective.
Vendors such as Hammer Missions, Helios Visions, Joulea, FairFleet, and StructuraView are pioneering this category.
As the adoption of these tech continues, we'll eventually expand The Nexus Marketplace to multiple categories to differentiate between the broad array of use cases.
Our official Nexus Marketplace definition of this category is the following:
Drone & Aerial Inspection Systems are technologies that use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)—indoors or outdoors—to inspect, monitor, and document commercial building assets that are hard to access or expensive to survey manually. These systems capture high-resolution visual, thermal, and sensor data to produce condition evidence (e.g., roof defects, facade deterioration, envelope leakage), 3D models, and issue documentation for maintenance, compliance, insurance, and capital planning.
In addition to inspection, some solutions enable autonomous indoor drone patrols for security and operations monitoring, where drones navigate facilities on scheduled routes, stream live video/sensor feeds to a control center, and use AI-assisted analytics to flag anomalies, safety hazards, or unusual activity—reducing reliance on static camera coverage and routine guard patrols.
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This is a great piece!
I agree.