US businesses are deploying drones in unprecedented numbers, as uses for the unmanned aircraft move beyond photography into mapping, gathering data and even tracking criminal suspects.
With thousands of developers now building apps for drones on a common platform, the Federal Aviation Administration has admitted that it wildly underestimated the number of commercial drones in service. It now expects that there will be more than 450,000 of them in the sky this year, a total it originally predicted for 2022.
Meanwhile, analysts at Barclays estimate that the global commercial drone market will grow tenfold from $4bn last year to $40bn in five years. They believe the use of drones will result in cost savings of some $100bn.
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