Commercial UAV Expo, held earlier this month in Las Vegas, Nevada, brought together industry professionals, thought leaders, and top companies from throughout the commercial drone sector for a conference and exhibition. At Commercial UAV News, we spent much of that week covering a bit of the conference program, featuring both presentations and panel discussions touching on some of the most interesting projects and impactful issues felt in the industry. 

In addition to attending sessions and learning from this conference programming, however, our staff also spent much of the week walking around the exhibit hall floor and talking with a handful of exhibitors at the event. While we certainly couldn’t speak with all 230 exhibiting organizations, we tried to get a nice cross-section of the floor. We covered some of those conversations already, and here is a look back at a few more conversations with customers on the floor.

Taisync

While many of the companies that are on the exhibit hall floor, as one would imagine, are speaking mostly – or at least in part – to the end users, Taisync noted that they actually work most closely with the drone manufacturers themselves. The company provides long-range wireless link solutions to companies in a variety of industries, including the drone sector. Even so, others still tend to stop by the booth to learn more about the solutions, with Taisync representatives saying that most of the questions have to do with which frequency bands are used and the range their products achieve.

KULR

Moving over to battery technology, KULR provides new battery technology that they believe is the number one source of power for drone companies today. Their confidence comes from their background, as the company has worked closely with NASA for space-related projects before, including critical missions for bringing astronauts to the moon and the Mars Rover. Ultimately, they decided that the time was now to bring this kind of technology to commercial markets, positioning themselves to take their expertise from government work into this market. All of their batteries are assembled in the United States, positioning them to work across various sectors.

Frontier Precision

One of the most eye-catching booths toward the front-end of the floor, Frontier Precision’s featured plenty of drones from their partners. The integrator of technology from various manufacturers, representatives noted that they started in the geospatial industry but have since diversified. Today, their customers span across other sectors as well, including forestry, oil and gas, and utilities. They also noted that visitors to their booth often are looking to transition out of just offering photogrammetry services, and ask questions about how to scale into higher accuracy and larger payloads for more complex environments.