Skydio and Trimble Collaborate on Recent Integration for Utilities, Construction and State Transportation Agencies
by DRONELIFE Staff Author Ian J. McNabb
Skydio, a California-based drone and UAV manufacturer focused on autonomy, recently announced a brand new strategic partnership with Trimble to create latest integrated workflows designed to unite data capture, data visualization, and data analytics for the critical infrastructure industry when surveying, mapping, and inspecting. The collaboration, which is currently in the event stage, goals to provide centimeter-accurate results for surveying and mapping projects, utilizing a mix of Skydio’s UAV with a Trimble GNSS receiver and software package.
The brand new Skydio X10 integrated with Trimble’s Construction Cloud software package is designed to serve each public sector and company customers. The fully autonomous, API-based integration will allow for straightforward transfer of drone-captured video and metadata to Trimble Industry Cloud, turning it into actionable insights quicker and empowering faster decision making. As well as, the mixing of Trimble’s GNSS receiver package and base station system with the RTK GPS-enabled X10 will allow for survey-grade accuracy on quite a lot of mapping projects. On top of RTK, customers will even have the opportunity to conduct PPK based corrections post flight.
“This collaboration brings together two leading corporations and their revolutionary technologies to further revolutionize how we digitize and map our physical world,” said Gagan Kanwar, Skydio’s Head of Technology Partnerships. “By deepening product integration, organizations using Trimble and Skydio will profit from survey-grade accuracy in mapping missions and go from data-to-insights that much faster.”
“Incorporating Skydio into our ecosystem augments our platform’s capabilities, offering our customers a completely integrated, end-to-end workflow from data acquisition to analytics,” said Aviad Almagor, Vice President of Technology Innovation at Trimble. “Our customers are in search of such automated workflows to handle the vast amount of knowledge and maximize its value through improved production and quality control processes.”
This latest partnership comes on the heels of the September unveiling of the brand new X10 and its improved sensor package and the October announcement of a collaboration with Teledyne Flir on their latest Boson+ thermal module, showing the operational flexibility of the brand new autonomous UAV.
More information on the partnership between Skydio and Trimble is on the market here.