The first step: a partnership with the dominant consumer drone maker DJI, announced Tuesday, under which Kespry will start offering a lower-cost service to inventory mines’ stockpiles using DJI’s Mavic 2 Pro drone. For DJI, the deal with Kespry furthers its strategy for expansion in the commercial space. "Kespry's a big piece of that strategy," said Jan Gasparic, head of enterprise partnerships at DJI. Kespry is going up against a number of other drone surveying startups, including Airware, Airobotics and Propeller. The aim: “so we can understand the condition and state of all the physical assets in the industrial world.”

Source: Forbes October 30, 2018 13:01 UTC