Top Reasons to Use Drones for Work
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Ever since we started the Barometer series, it has been clear that all of the top 4 reasons to adopt drones are quite important for the industry. So this year we decided to add more nuance by making this question a scale from 1-5 rather than a 3-way choice between not important, important, and very important. BIS operators are the group who responded to this question. And the results are quite enlightening and thought-provoking.
If we focus on what the industry considers “very important”, the top reasons to adopt drones are [in order]: improving work safety (41%), saving time (35%), and improve quality (33%). When looking at “quite important” (not measured last year), the ranking is: saving time (21%), improve quality (20%), and improve safety (16%). This could mean that saving time is generally considered to be the most important factor, however “saving time” also received the highest amount of responses for “not important” (10%).
So which is the top reason overall?
When looking at the general shape of the graphs, one could argue that “improve quality” is the top reason while “saving cost” is the least (after all, drones can be expensive despite being worth the money). Yet we would say that there is no right answer about the "number one top reason" and prefer to simply present the data and leave the interpretation to our readers’ discretion.
Find out more about what drone companies told us in this year's Drone Industry Barometer.
Business Executive |Autonomous Vehicle| Advanced Air Mobility| Remotely Piloted Aircraft System| Supply Chain | Law |
2 年Amongst all, improve work safety should be the top reason. Imagine gas or poisonous leaks at a critical infrastructure, the first point of emergency response is a drone....
Aerospace Innovation | Entrepreneurship
2 年Very good approach. Here at VOA, the agriculture spraying drones we see deployed at the platform are frequently associated with doing Better or Faster, with a Lower Cost.
Editor-in-chief Drones Magazin / Chefredakteur Drones Magazin / Executive board member UAV DACH / Vorstandsmitglied UAV DACH
2 年Improving work safety often is a little underestimated, I guess. Although it's a very important reason why drones are that interesting for many industries.
Senior Leadership?Operations and Logistic Management?Liaison?Strategic Thinking?Civil Affairs?Peace Support Operations Mgmt?Info Analysis?Info Assurance?Cyber Sec?Risk Assessment?Analitycal Skills?Communication
2 年I would just sum up the reasons of using drones with a simple sentence: THEY CAN DO MANY THINGS. Easy to use, money saver, low operational costs, high definition video and photo shooting.
Aviation Technical Compliance
2 年Cargo drones must have an implicit safety excellence, therefore I guess that specifically fort this class of drones, saving time & costs would be the top.