Drones can take thousands of images or hours of video of things that previously would’ve been unthinkable.

But what good is all that data if you have no way to analyze it?

Ken Falk, CEO and Founder of Scopito, has a platform that allows users to understand what they have and quickly find what they need to detect.

“Drones allow you to capture much larger amounts of images in a much higher quality than was financially feasible before,” he said. “You need all of this data in high quality and high volume to start doing predictive maintenance work.”

One of ConnexiCore’s customers on the West Coast was set to build a complicated scaffolding setup to analyze a building that it wanted to preserve part of during a revamp, but Frank Segarra, the company’s President and Founder, realized it would be much more cost effective to use a drone and combine it with Scopito’s service to create a better workflow.

“They were going to spend well over $100,000 scaffolding both phases. We came in and surveyed and mapped the entire infrastructure facade on all four sides in two days, completed it for under $20,000, and gave them more data than they could imagine,” Segarra said.

At the top of the tower, Segarra and his team discovered a piece of copper on the cupola that had come unmoored. With many buildings on the East Coast reaching milestones and regulations in many cities looking to prevent fatal incidents caused by pieces of a facade chipping off and hitting someone below, these technologies will be crucial for building owners looking to comply with local codes.