Like many companies, BGE is continually looking for innovative ways to deliver better service to customers. Founded over 200 years ago as The Gas Light Company of Baltimore, BGE was the nation’s first gas provider, tasked with lighting the streets of the historic city—a feat they completed in 1890. Ever since then, BGE has stayed on the forefront of technology, always searching for new ways to deliver energy reliably and safely.

For energy companies around the world, it's critical to keep employees and customers safe, and offer reliable service when people need it most.

Investor-owned utility company Evergy is no different. Serving over 1.7 million customers across Kansas and Missouri through its operating subsidiaries KCP&L and Westar, the 139-year-old company knows the importance of innovation in reaching those goals. In keeping with their relentless pursuit of worker safety and service uptime, Evergy decided to start their own in-house drone program in 2015—and they’ve never looked back since.

WICHITA, Kan. – June 8, 2021 – (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – AgEagle™ Aerial Systems Inc. (NYSE American: UAVS) (“AgEagle” or the “Company”), an industry leading drone solutions provider, today announced that Measure, an AgEagle company, has partnered with Parrot® (Euronext Paris: PARRO), the leading European drone group, to integrate Measure Ground Control with Parrot’s ANAFI, ANAFI USA and ANAFI Thermal drone platforms. The integration provides enterprise customers with a world-class, end-to-end solution for easily managing and scaling drone fleet operation workflows.

Here at Measure, our goal is to get the right tools into the hands of our customers. We believe in order for this industry to grow and thrive, automation, good design, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness is crucial. Everyone should have affordable access to tools like flight logging and quality mapmaking. To this end, we’ve made some key changes to our platform that we’re excited to share with you: 

Measure’s latest iteration of its drone software platform, Measure Ground Control™, adds data processing and mapping tools, powered by Pix4D, to its existing suite of program management capabilities and user-friendly flight application. The result is a comprehensive, cost-effective solution for managing operations, collecting data, and processing data into high-quality data products.

Starting today, Measure Ground Control users now have integrated access to REIN’s DroneInsurance.com, a digital risk management platform that offers customizable insurance options for your commercial drone operations.

We're excited to share some enhancements to Measure Ground Control's flight app regarding KML import and 360 panorama. 

Mission management is essential to drone operations. In Ground Control, we've updated the mission details screen to put this information all on one page, in an easy-to-navigate overview.

Measure Ground Control’s latest release creates a more robust mission and flight planning management tool for organizations expanding their commercial drone programs.

Although we focus a lot on drone hardware's ability to collect information, there is more to data collection than having the right camera and sensors for the job. As the adage goes, "Bad data in equals bad data out."