Ascending Technologies is an Intel company that creates unmanned technology for professional, civil and research.
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Kespry
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Kespry is a provider of drone systems for commercial markets. It is designed to enable capture, analysis, and sharing of aerial data for use in aggregate mining, agriculture, and other industries where arial topography analysis is important.
Kespry has a complete package. From the automatic flight path, the takeoff and landing, kespry has removed a lot of user error that plague other drone companies. I love the fact that Kespry takes care of all of the maintenance. In a construction or production setting, use of the drone removes the historical liability of employees walking across busy sites between heavy equipment passes.
Kespry has the most amazing customer service of any company I have worked with. Any time there is an issue, they respond back within minutes, and typically can resolve the problem within an hour or two.
Kespry listens to their customers and implements suggestions that are beneficial to the industry.
We find that the quality of the data is second to none.
Our company would like to see more data entry fields in the inventory management area. It would be useful to see information such as material cost and retail price. We have mentioned this and I understand that it is being addressed.
I would like to see faster data transfer from the drone to the iPad. When a mission is completed, I like to make sure that the data is completely transferred from the drone before I leave the site.
A vehicle cigarette lighter powered battery charger would come in extremely handy for missions that use multiple batteries, or for times when there is no power present for recharging the drone batteries.
While evaluating different stockpile measurement drones, we also took a look at a fixed wing drone system. While both systems can deliver the same raw data, Kespry makes it so easy to capture and manipulate the data. The other drone system is a series of different parts that you have to procure, where the Kespry parts are bundled and designed to work together from the ground up. We also didn't feel that the level of service and support with the competitor was on par with Kespry.
In one of our companies, we are performing monthly stockpile measurements at four different sites. Before Kespry, the schedule at those four sites was bi-annual, at a cost of over $20,000. We are now able to get 6 times the data at a fraction of the previous cost.
During one big inventory measurement push, I captured data for 212 stockpiles in 3 days.
The following is an excerpt from an email message that I sent to Kespry last summer;
"Up until now, I didn’t quite realize how much time we are saving with Kespry. With my previous method, I could measure an average stockpile in about 45 minutes. With Kespry, I averaged 7.9 minutes per stockpile. That’s INCLUDING the time it took me to drive 850 miles. We completed 173 hours worth of work in about 28 hours. If my math is correct, that’s an 84% reduction in labor costs for this single inventory measurement cycle. That’s over a month’s worth of work in 3 days."
