STORM DAMAGE ASSESSMENT WITH DRONES

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STORM DAMAGE ASSESSMENT WITH DRONES
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• Super storms are raging across the world, and
  with hundreds of billions of dollars of damage to
  homes across parts of America, Puerto Rico and
  the U.S. Virgin Islands of late, assessing the
  damage these storms have wreaked, is proving big
  business for drone companies.
• Drone companies authorized by the Federal
  Aviation Administration and contracted to conduct
  storm assessment with insurance and utility
  companies, have been busy inspecting homes,
  electrical lines and gas and oil refineries to
  assess and document storm damage after the recent
  hurricanes, Harvey, Irma and Maria.

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• Why are storms such big business for drone
  companies?
• Insurance companies in recent years, have begun
  to rely heavily on drones to try and help them
  get ahead amidst the deluge of claims. Drones
  have the capability to conduct inspections and
  collect data in areas that may not be accessible
  by vehicles, or which are simply too dangerous
  for humans to go near. They are helping adjusters
  to determine the level of damage and estimate how
  much should be awarded in pay outs, and since
  there are simply not enough adjusters out there
  to cover all the damaged properties, drone
  companies are proving invaluable.

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• Drones, with 3-D imaging and 4K cameras, can
  detect damage even to shingle on a Roof their
  accurate rooftop inspections can then be given to
  the adjusters who generate analytic reports
  within a matter of minutes.
• Drones also have the capacity to drastically
  reduce the amount of time each inspection takes
  with a human adjuster, a ladder and a camera, the
  average inspection takes around an hour at a
  minimum, whereas with a drone, inspection time
  can be reduced to a mere fifteen minutes.

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• Which storm proved the catalyst for drone
  companies?
• Hurricane Harvey was the first storm after which
  many drone companies found their services being
  called for. Drone companies began by assessing
  damage caused to the infrastructure of buildings,
  and assisted energy and utility companies in
  finding out whether or not it was safe to send
  humans in to begin clean-up efforts.
• Farmers Insurance, a large U.S. based insurance
  company, began deploying drones to help with
  inspections after Hurricane Harvey hit, too, and
  they now have their own team of drone
  pilot-adjusters.

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• What does the future hold for drones and storm
  assessment?
• Its widely predicted that as aerial technology
  and data analytics advance, there will be a
  fundamental change to the way in which customers
  will make claims after a storm has hit, and in
  how insurance companies make pay outs to those
  customers with damage to their homes or
  properties.
• Particularly where damage to roofs is involved,
  human adjusters may one day need never to attend
  the property to assess the damage, instead the
  data will be collected with drones and processed
  with software that then sends the reports
  straight to the adjusters computers.

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• As the saying goes, one mans misery is another
  mans gain, and so in the aftermath of the
  destruction caused by many recent and
  particularly lethal storms, drone companies are
  at least reaping some reward.
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