Esri UK announces a new partnership with drone specialists heliguy™ to complete its end-to-end drone solution for the emergency services industry.
The final piece in Esri UK’s strategy to offer all parts of the drone workflow, the partnership will provide customers with drone hardware, payloads, and pilot training from heliguy, combined with Esri’s drone flight planning, data capture, data processing, and GIS software.
Desktop data processing
Esri UK and heliguy will work on joint customer projects, aiming to introduce more efficient workflows and new capabilities, including the rapid creation of FMV (Full Motion Video), real-time drone surveillance programs, digital twins, and 3D models of buildings.
New approaches will include both cloud and desktop data processing and storage, enabling faster sharing of drone data and integration with other systems such as GIS. Esri UK's current customers include Humberside Fire & Rescue and Avon & Somerset Constabulary, while heliguy counts London Fire Brigade and Greater Manchester Police as customers.
Sophisticated fleet management
The new partnership makes their procurement process more efficient"
“From creating digital twins and real-time surveillance to emergency planning, asset inspections or fire risk assessment, the use of drones is increasing and becoming more complex,” said Adrian Friend, Head of Defense, National Security and Public Safety at Esri UK.
“The end-to-end approach will give users sophisticated fleet management and remote flight planning workflows, combined with geospatial analysis, which is vital in delivering drone data to teams on the ground or in operations centers, so faster decisions can be made. By providing a single source of hardware and software, the new partnership makes their procurement process more efficient.”
Streamlining current processes
Designed to streamline current processes, from drone hardware selection and management, through to data capture, analysis, and sharing, the partnership will make it easier and more cost effective for customers to create a tightly integrated drone program, which can scale across an organization.
“Defense and public safety organizations are now looking to maximize their drone investment as new workflows begin to emerge,” said Ben Sangster, GIS and Survey Lead at heliguy. “New payload sensors recently launched will now enable high-fidelity mapping to be achieved much faster than before, for example. Combining our hardware expertise with Esri’s software will reap new benefits for defense and public safety drone programs.”