How Drone Data Security Is Becoming Non-Negotiable for Critical Infrastructure Inspections
Infrastructure inspections used to mean a crew with clipboards, a bucket truck, and a lot of guesswork. Now it means a drone circling a substation, capturing LiDAR point clouds, thermal signatures, and centimeter-accurate geospatial data in a single flight, an approach Drone as a Service (DaaS) and similar operators have helped bring into the mainstream. That shift solved a lot of old problems. It also created a new one that most operators haven't fully priced in: what happens to all that data once the drone lands.
