Advancement in cloud computing and successes of SaaS business model; when combined with the progression in artificial intelligence, has shown startling outcomes — automating repetitive tasks, identifying security threats and the security breach has led to advancement in strategic efficiency to mitigate issues in real-time. — In keeping up with the shift from manufacturing to service economy the businesses are evolving to incorporate usage-based product models. Software as a Service (SaaS) applications is one such model that facilitates self subscriptions to their customers, at the same time providing flexibility in payment methods — be it weekly…

Connecting the dots and exploring the market opportunity for Drones — Fact Check! Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Global Business Summit GBS, 2019 declared that “India might have missed the bus of first three revolutions but we are going to drive the bus of Industrialisation 4.0.” At the same conference Oliver Tonby, Chairman, McKinsey (Asia) added, “it (Industrialization 4.0) …

Objective: Land and Revenue department of Bihar Government responsible for Tax and Revenue collection in the state of Bihar, India, was struggling with efficient property tax collection; considering the poor evaluation techniques and weaker effect of the existing system. — OVERVIEW Property Tax is the principal source of revenue in urban local bodies in virtually every part of the world. In Bihar, India, the system of property tax evaluation has no regular update or proper monitoring regarding the removal or addition in new units of revenue (storeys in a building) which…

Objective: Indian Railways is to construct a third railway line between Bina and Lalitpur to reduce congestion and rail delays in between the two stations. — OVERVIEW Northern Central Railways (NCR) division of Indian Railways has recently taken a project to conduct drone mapping survey and construct a 3rd railway line from Bina to Lalitpur, distanced 90 km. Currently, the station already has two existing railway lines and the third line is proposed facilitating the existing two…

Enterprise drone usage has increased by 58 percent from 2016 to 2017 — with the construction, mining, surveying sectors in the lead. But how will drones transform the generation of insights as the industry matures by the end of 2019? — The global market has become a hotbed of activity for drone produced datasets. Data require competitive tools that can store and sort it further for critical analysis. High-resolution drone data is a reliable source (precision of 5 cms) of information for decision making, especially in the infra sector.

In this section of the series, I’ve covered an exclusive interview with Aman Mehto, Platform Architect of Indshine. He gives the best analogies to make the technically codified cloud structure and security issues understood in the language (not so technical) spoken by most of us. — This interview was conducted keeping in mind the concerns Drone businesses generally have with cloud storage. I started the interview by asking Aman (A) a basic question, “What does it mean to have a secure environment?”

Back in days from scroll with a wax seal to now having cloud server backups; in an Age of Digital Transformation, the Keys to securing business is securing data first. — “Data is the new oil” Clive Humby in 2006 gave the world a futuristic fact which still holds its relevance (that’s why the quote!) Emerging technologies like drones aim to dig deep to produce data both in quality (precision up to 5cm) and quantity (one drone flight gives 600 MB…

Imagine if you could visualize engineering drawings in your digital watch or through VR and inspect site while sitting in a different continent altogether. This is the sure future of data mobility we’re talking here. — The commercial and civil government sector is embracing drone technology for its promised potential. These unmanned flying robots are soaring high on sites for collecting critical information and facilitating use cases in Mining, Solar, Smart City planning and Construction Industry. Drones are producing immense data for Infra-sector to get better…

Construction process starts with the mere power of decision making over the collected data even before the idea reaches on site. With many stakeholders playing a part the success counts on the effective communication and authenticity of data collected ensures saving up the delays of three years hence saving up 1000 of crores. — It’s the right place and time to bring drones into context, it’s not hard to imagine the value they’ve offered to the construction industry, the drone data is processed to generate contour maps, inspect sites, monitor changes and gives analytical insights via the cloud. …