The Future of Drones

According to the AT&T Foundry

Background

Safety is Important

At a great cost and employee risk, AT&T employees climb cell towers in order to inspect and repair them, often due to wildlife and environmental damage. This means staff is trained to climb cell towers to visually inspect and repair cell towers. The goal of the Foundry was to look at the innovation landscape and horizons to create and test future ideas. This report married all of the aspects of the Foundry by doing a startup scan of the market, creating a point of view on some possible areas of exploration, and defining new projects to explore with new business units. This report was a part of a series of reports entitled The Futurist Series that had corresponding events and matchmaking services within the business units at AT&T and Ericsson to find startups to work with and projects to undertake.

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The Future of Drones According to the AT&T Foundry

Developing a point of view on future uses of drones and impact on communications

We interviewed 100+ leading innovators, executives, and researchers puching the industry forward. Our goal was to understand the impact of unmanned ariel vehicles (UAV) on communications, on traffic control, on industry, and transportation. In understanding the landscape, we could think about inputs to how AT&T builds their network to support these new, connected devices.

Analysis Per Projection

Each section had a projection, analysis, indicators and some early stage startups whose investments and traction were helping us formulate a view on what the venture capital community saw and what was delighting users.

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