The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of May 17th, 2018

#6 PrecisionHawk leads with first beyond visual line of sight drone

In North Carolina, PrecisionHawk Inc., a leading provider of drone technology for the enterprise, announced the first Beyond Visual Line of Sight -enabled, multi-rotor drone platform. First to market, the drone incorporates industry-leading technology to automatically identify all cooperative and non-cooperative aircraft within a 10km radius, ensuring airspace de-confliction well before potential confrontation.

Companies with big infrastructure investments spread over vast distances could reap huge benefits from BVLOS drone operations. Under PrecisionHawk’s commercial BVLOS waiver, it has identified opportunities to save as much as $180 for every mile of data capture when compared to traditional methods.