Drones and Web are Driving Data Mobility
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 at quick decision making. Also, drone data is laden with rich analytics which has enabled the adoption of this lone wolf technology in 50 countries already.
Let’s turn the wheel to see how drone data is simplified (easy to understand) to fit in different case scenarios;
Case Scenario 3 (Remember we had a deal of putting out a series, check the previous blog):
Deconstruct data for easy understanding
Haven’t we been all there when the client goes blank when you talk engineering jargons?
Remember, your client might not be as thorough with the engineering drawings as you are. Digital surface model (DSM) definitely gives thousands information but if in client’s vocabulary the word “elevation” is his problem then the wisdom is in breaking the rich DSM to provide Visualization to elevation profile only! Let’s understand it closely. Jatin Prabhu, Government officer at Land and Revenue department of Bihar, India, had problem with the irregular property revenue being collected. He wanted elevation coordinates of buildings in different sections to calculate property tax according to the number of floors of each house.
“ The essence of solution delivery is in understanding the language of the question.”
An elevation profile was provided to Jatin on Indshine, an online drone platform that quite solved his known problem. In case Jatin had to first figure out DSM to find elevation, he would have paid minimum of $1500 to a consultant. You see, there you saved your client’s money for good.
For Jatin, The elevation profile helped him in calculating the estimated revenue collection from many sections of the state. With the right data, the revenue data collected was 1.5 times of what was collected in the past.
Case Scenario 4
Emancipate data of hardware limitations
Drone data is all good and what not. But! Yes, there is a ‘but’ which is the limitation of heavy data size that also limits its use cases. Aziz Mustafa, Government officer in Indian Railway uses a personal computer of low configuration for maintaining documents and doing related office work. For Yard planning when a local drone service provider (DSP) provided him various engineering drawings and orthomosaic he sadly failed to put rich drone data to any use.
But it’s not the end yet! Aziz had heard of Indshine’s cloud-based online platform, he asked the DSP to share the project files with him via Indshine.
Voila! Aziz was not only able to visualize the data on his laptop but later in the evening, he showed the files to his colleagues on his phone. This saved Aziz the cost of buying an advanced system of $2200 just for visualising drone data.
What happened here? It’s the Indshine’s cloud platform where data is hosted, this relieves the client from hardware limitation that comes along with drone data.
“The power of cloud is yet another factor that has an influential role to play in the exponential growth of drone usage across various industries.”
Cloud has connected the field to your hardware (desktop, laptop, tab or mobile) and made drone data just a click away.
Case Scenario 5
Give data mobility because what does not move, dies fast!
First, let’s understand, what is data mobility? Data mobility means accessing data when and wherever you need it.
In India, land acquisition is the biggest problem faced by the government while rolling out any construction plan. National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) planned to provide extra lanes to an existing highway in the state of Madhya Pradesh. When the officials inspected the site via drone they found that the residents have illegally acquired government’s land and they refused to vacate it. The situation was moved to court where the jury sat to understand the issue and pass the verdict. NHAI submitted the visual document via Indshine’s platform and showed (online) the jury orthomosaics to prove right of way (ROW).
NHAI won the case because the drone data presented as proof gave precise analytics that could be visualized from the court itself. If not the visual document the case would have stuck in court for years due to the lack of authentic data. Such delay in construction progress results in five times the cost incurred than the initially estimated cost.
Wondering about the next story? It will be up the coming Monday. What it would be about? I did want to keep it a surprise but I’ll drop a hint; it is more cautioning than what I’ve covered yet, it will make you reevaluate traditional ways of drone data sharing. Follow the publication to get the notifications! Also, benefit from the shared public projects on Indshine that you don’t have to log in to see and contribute to get yourself noticed among industry people.
