I’m curious how most of you are handling data delivery right now. Are you just dropping everything in a Google Drive or Dropbox link, or do you have another system in place?
When we started National Drone Services, the idea was to build a service provider with a nationwide network of FAA-licensed pilots (Yes, like a flyguys/zeitview, but with the intent of actually paying our pilots fair rates). Our core clients were going to be in construction and property management, and we needed a way to deliver data like panoramas, site overview imagery, and orthomosaics in a format that added value and made sense to them. The challenge with the DSP industry as a whole isn't flying drones (that's really easy) - it's delivering your data to clients in a way that provides value. Sending thousands of raw images through Dropbox or Google Drive doesn't cut it. Because of that, we ended up building our own delivery platform, originally just to solve our own problem.
Now we’re pivoting NDS into more of a SaaS platform so other DSPs can use it the same way. It’s set up to:
When we started National Drone Services, the idea was to build a service provider with a nationwide network of FAA-licensed pilots (Yes, like a flyguys/zeitview, but with the intent of actually paying our pilots fair rates). Our core clients were going to be in construction and property management, and we needed a way to deliver data like panoramas, site overview imagery, and orthomosaics in a format that added value and made sense to them. The challenge with the DSP industry as a whole isn't flying drones (that's really easy) - it's delivering your data to clients in a way that provides value. Sending thousands of raw images through Dropbox or Google Drive doesn't cut it. Because of that, we ended up building our own delivery platform, originally just to solve our own problem.
Now we’re pivoting NDS into more of a SaaS platform so other DSPs can use it the same way. It’s set up to:
- Let you organize your deliverables into clean folders
- View standard images, 360 panos, and videos
- Generate orthomosaics (As long as your imagery is suitable)
- Add annotations onto images for inspection purposes and export reports on those
- Use a timeline feature by adding extra captures to the same job for progress tracking
- Compare orthos to satellite or other captures of that job
- Easily share everything to your customer and generate zip downloads
