Race to the bottom

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Fortune did an article about how commercial rates for drone related business have dropped in the last few years. It looks like one to stay ahead in the business is to provide advanced analytics and image analysis for field inspections. You can't make money in a race to the bottom for basic video and image work. This is where AI comes in and being able to build and train models to recognize defects and structural damage.

Running a Drone Business Was a Massive Cash Cow. Then the Drones Arrived
Andy Trench made $2,000 a day in 2015 taking sky-high photographs along the East Coast with a drone he made himself. Now, that same work fetches about $175.

“It’s apparent that a lot of this industry is a race to the bottom,” said Trench, a Rhode Island entrepreneur who’s been operating remote-controlled aircraft for more than a decade.
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