Wednesday, May 14, 2014

drag2share: DRONES: Commercial Drones Are Becoming A Reality, With Huge Impacts For Many Industries

source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/businessinsider/~3/Fmc7ARtr5Fs/drones-navigating-toward-commercial-applications-2014-5

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While drones are unlikely to become a part of our daily lives in the immediate future, they will soon begin taking on much larger roles for businesses and some individual consumers, from delivering groceries to revolutionizing private security, to changing the way farmers manage their crops — perhaps even aerial advertising. 

We predict that 12% of an estimated $98 billion in cumulative global spending on aerial drones over the next decade will be for commercial purposes.

In a new report from BI Intelligence, we size the commercial and military drone market to estimate how big the drone industry could become, and which industries are most likely to see drones become part of their business model in the next few years. We also look at what components industries, like GPS and sensors manufacturers, will be working on to become drone-ready. And we assess how drone development will proceed in light of stiff safety and privacy concerns and regulatory hurdles.