Drones

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Crewless 'drone ships' will be sailing the seas by 2020

by Alan Tovey

Remote-controlled “drone ships” will be plying the sealanes without crews on board by the end of the decade, according to Rolls-Royce.

Source: Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/201 ... s-by-2020/

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Drones: 3 Hot Drone Stocks to Buy

Drone usage is growing beyond the military and hobbyists

By Aaron Levitt

Source: Investor Place

http://investorplace.com/2016/05/drones ... 0OlipF96M8

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Brave New World

By Ben Benoy

Move over Christopher Columbus, it’s a brave new world.

The drones are coming!

Commercial drone use and their associated data collection capabilities are starting to explode in the farming, mining, and construction industries.

Expanded capabilities coupled with ever-decreasing hardware costs are ratcheting up the use of drones for functions previously done via other, very expensive means.

Several years ago, commercial drones with surveillance capabilities ran between $10,000 and $20,000. Now, most companies can get very similar capabilities with new drone hardware that costs between $800 and $1,500!

Just a snapshot of what these things can currently do includes:

Real-time crop pictures for farmers to see how their plants are growing over hundreds of acres.

Precision measuring and site layout for the mining and construction industry.

Inspection of pipe, bridge, and road infrastructure spanning hundreds of miles.

Real Estate photos of those hidden property gems.

Monitoring of wildfires.

Geographic analysis and topographic mapping.
This type of information is called aerial intelligence.

Until drones came along, intelligence of this kind was collected via very expensive platforms, such as satellites and traditional piloted planes outfitted with cameras. If you didn’t have the cash for planes or satellite imagery, you were stuck doing assessments the plain old fashion way, manually on the ground

As you can imagine, surveying crop status or checking for potholes on a 600-mile road can get pretty tedious if you’re stuck on the ground.

But now, with drone technology, we can survey large areas in hours, not days. And the real-time surveillance data that’s uploaded allows us to take immediate action!

That’s all great, but what if you don’t know how to fly a drone yourself? Well, now there’s a solution for that, too!

Companies are popping up left and right to offer “Drones-As-A-Service,” or just DaaS. These companies connect businesses with qualified drone pilots and their associated hardware and software for a fee. Simply call them up, set up a consulting appointment to tell them what aerial intelligence you want and they do the rest.

One startup called Drone Deploy even offers custom software that automates drone flights and crunches the aerial intelligence data directly on your smart phone!

This past week, the Federal Aviation Administration finalized new rules that make it easier for commercial companies to leverage unmanned aircraft systems commercially.

But wait until you hear this…

If you’re worried about flying your drone onto a government facility and having the secret service come kick down your door, underwater drones are the way to go.

A startup called OpenROV provides an open-source, low-cost underwater robot kit for exploration and education. Its Unmanned Underwater Vehicles, UUVs for short, operate off of open-source software that is completely customizable for your own Hunt for Red October mission.

Now before you get too excited, these underwater beasts come with a 100-meter tether and two to three-hour battery life, but it’s still a lot more productive for your young adolescent than staring at SpongeBob SquarePants on the TV. He can now see him underwater!

Commercial drones, whether aerial or underwater, are here to stay. These mighty contraptions are making quite the splash (no pun intended) as they disrupt industries that need to do business faster, more efficiently, at a fraction of the cost.

As such, I plan to make sure my BioTech Intel Trader subscribers are positioned to profit from this trend.

Now… if I can just get a drone to keep the birds from leaving “gifts” on my yard fence, I’ll be good!

Source: BioTech Intel Trader

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3 Drone Stocks You Can Keep on Autopilot

These drone stocks offer some exposure but don’t depend solely on unmanned aircraft

By Laura Hoy

Source: Investor Place

http://investorplace.com/2016/09/3-dron ... -B0mfB96M8

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New generation of drones set to revolutionize warfare

Autonomous drones are being called the biggest thing in military technology since the nuclear bomb.

by David Martin

Source: CBS


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes- ... echnology/

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Drones (Oil & Gas Sector)

The Federal Aviation Administration recently gave more than 1,000 exemptions for drone use in the United States.

Some of those are for the inspection of power lines, towers and pipelines.

As a whole, the commercial drone industry is expected to be worth $14 billion annually by 2024. Some of that spending will be driven by the need to take boring, tedious and dangerous tasks currently done by humans and give them to unmanned aircraft.

As energy companies face revenue crunches, they're going to need to rely on new ways to be more efficient and cost-effective. And drones allow them to do that.

Source: Oxford Club

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Mind-Blowing Applications for Trump’s Defense Spending Plan

By Matthew Carr

There’s even a company that already has a line of drones specifically for the oil and gas industry… AeroVironment (Nasdaq: AVAV).

And General Electric (NYSE: GE) has a $125 million segment that is rolling out drones for the oil and gas sector as well.

Drones can be used to monitor coastlines, look for ice, survey spills, detect leaks, map terrain, assess pipelines and fields, and provide security functions.

An energy company operating in the Arctic Ocean recently purchased a number of drones to track icebergs. It plans to place a GPS device on each iceberg, using drones, and then track them. It is basically traffic control for icebergs. If one of them gets too close to the company’s operations, the company will send out a boat and push the iceberg out of the way.

At the moment, pipeline surveys are largely done by helicopters and fixed-wing planes. That looks like it could soon be an old-fashioned process… a forgotten piece of the past.

Source: The Oxford Club

http://energyandresourcesdigest.com/inv ... ?src=email

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Drone dust could overturn dozens of today's industries

Source: Daily Crux

http://thecrux.com/drone-dust-could-ove ... ndustries/

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One Heck of an Unstoppable Trend

Source: Strategic Tech Investor


http://strategictechinvestor.com/2017/0 ... on-valley/

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Two Ways to Play the Incredible Upside in the Drone Market

By Jonathan Rodriguez

Play #1: Going Small for the Biggest Gains
AeroVironment Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV) is a leading small-cap tech company that specializes in unmanned aerial vehicles.

Play #2: Trade a Mega-Cap Defense Stock at a Bite-Sized Price
Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE: NOC) is one of America’s largest defense contractors.

The company makes several combat drones, including the MQ-8C unmanned helicopter and the popular RQ-4 Global Hawk.

Source: Wall St. Daily

http://dailytradealert.com/2017/04/01/t ... ne-market/