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innovation groups working on it , but it ’ s not necessarily a fully-fledged deployment across the entire business .
“ There are a few things that I think need to happen today which would make this technology much more quickly and greatly adopted , especially for enterprise adoption . Having a complete solution is really important , not just the hardware piece of it , not just the data collection piece of it , but also the application piece of it . Then there is the question of how drones tie into existing applications .”
Incrementally , all of these things will change and move forward as drone manufacturers and organisations use the technology to collaborate on projects attempting to innovate on all of these fronts . Perhaps there is capability to physically adapt the drones to make them more useful to companies , or different approaches to deployment which have yet to be explored . There can be no doubt though , that drones could potentially provide solutions to some of the logistical problems procurement companies are presented with .
Govil believes that the wider
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