FairFleet is the leading global full-service provider for drone-based solutions with headquarters in Munich, Germany. With more than 3,000 professional drone pilots, FairFleet can offer drone solutions as a full-service model in more than 85 countries. Through the FairFleet platform the entire value chain of drone services is covered in a standardized workflow: from flight booking, airspace check and pilot training to flight operations and data analytics. In addition, client have full access to all features and tools of the platform, to directly work with the acquired data.
Easy Engineering: What are the main areas of activity of the company?
FAIRFLEET: FairFleet offers its solutions in various industries: such as real estate, insurance & property inspection, energy, mapping & surveying and infrastructure inspection. The current market focus is, the EMEA market. However, FairFleet is expanding constantly and is collecting data around the globe daily.
E.E: What’s the news for 2021 about new products?
FAIRFLEET: At FairFleet we constantly develop new solutions for our clients and try out new approaches to increase the efficiency of our services. Besides new solutions, we continuously develop features and tool on our platform.
This year, we have developed a lot of new features and solutions. In the past weeks we have launched multiple new services such as wind turbine inspection with a single rotor stop, serial ID scanning of solar modules and the latest addition is our new Premium Video for real estate marketing.
We will be announcing a few more releases, included one of the greatest developments in the history of FairFleet, very soon!
E.E: What are the ranges of products?
FAIRFLEET: FairFleet offers drone powered solutions to B2B customers in various industries such as real estate, insurance & property inspection, energy, mapping, and infrastructure inspection.
For the real estate industry, FairFleet offers various marketing services such as high-resolution aerial photography, interactive 360° panoramas, state of the art drone videos including postproduction and animations or architecture visualizations for planning and sales promotion.
For insurances or property owners, we offer scans of buildings and provide in detailed insights into the property condition. Our infrastructure solutions are similar, however adapted to the client’s requirements of these inspections. We can inspect any object from antenna to damns or roads. Many of our clients from different industries require maps and terrain models. We can provide them with orthomosaics, pointclouds, digital terrain models (DSM), digital surface models (DSM) or 3D scans.
In the energy sector, we offer: aerial thermography and analytics for solar assets, wind turbine inspections, serial number scanning, construction monitoring or mast inspection.
E.E: At what stage is the market where you are currently active?
FAIRFLEET: The market is currently growing a lot as the global pandemic and its effects on travelling have led to a high demand in FairFleet remote sensing services.
This was a clear boost to the already existing increased interest in outsources drone activities. Many corporations around the globe discover the efficiency of professional drone solutions. Our great commitment to developing new solutions has convinced many organizations that have been skeptical a few years ago.
In addition, the drone manufactures are developing and releasing new hardware and sensors very fast. Which creates new opportunities in many untapped areas.
E.E: What can you tell us about market trends?
FAIRFLEET: The rapid development of new drone technology, such as hardware or sensors is dramatically expanding the fields of applications currently. Sensors are becoming more powerful and the quality of the captured data has increased in accuracy and precision. At the same time the cost for hardware is reduced dramatically. This allows using the latest technology in areas that could not have been served efficiently in the past.
At the same time companies in the drone economy are focusing more on certain markets or business models. Today, most companies in the drone economy are either in hardware or software.
We are FairFleet believe that offering a combination of efficient data acquisition with the latest hardware and state of the art data processing allows companies from any industry to facilitate drones into countless processes.
E.E: What are the most innovative products marketed?
FAIRFLEET: Currently as there is a huge number of innovative products on the market, it is hard to tell, which one is the most innovative. At FairFleet we are always up to date with innovation and we include the most innovate software and hardware into our existing services.
E.E: What estimations do you have for 2021?
FAIRFLEET: As we see an increasing demand for outsourced professional drone operations and insightful analytics, we expect the drone service industry to continue to grow at a high pace. Our clients have indicated a massive demand for our services globally.
