Insourcing vs Outsourcing

UaaS – UAVs as a Service

About Me

10 years in IT Risk Management

4 Years as Chief Information Security Officer

4 Years on Information System Audit and

Control Perth Board, 2 years as VP

Passionate about aviation

Flying model aircraft since 1998

Flying manned aircraft since 2006

Founded Coptercam in January 2012

Largest UAV aerial imagery company in

Australia – 14 aircraft, 6 flight crews, 4 offices.

Outline

Technology platforms

What is UaaS

Current and future applications

Tips and traps DIY UAV

UaaS example

Cost v Benefits

Technology Platforms

UAVs are like computers

Technology platform

Applications make them useful

Technological obsolescence

Hype Cycle

Source: Gartner August 2013

Current Applications

Photography & Cinematography

Mapping

Surveying

Powerline inspection

Infrastructure inspection

Search and Rescue

Fire spotting

Future Applications

Communications

Datacenters

Freight transport

Environmental monitoring

The Sky’s the Limit!

DIY UAV

What applications?

Which UAV? Another shiny new toy

Capital cost

Training liability

Public liability

Health and safety issues

Brand and reputation

Insurance costs

Maintenance

Staff costs

Regulatory costs

These things fly themselves….

Shiny new toy to service model

Buy a server Lease a server

Managed Service

Cloud Computing

IT as a Service

UAVs as a Service (UaaS)

Pay for the service not the technology

Mapping service

Surveying service

Infrastructure inspection service

Photography service

Search and rescue service

Pay for what you use

On demand and scalable

Example UaaS

Cost vs Benefits of UaaS

In House

Capital cost - $40k –

$100k

Insurance - $7.5k pa

Training/Licencing -

$5k

Maintenance - $??

Staff cost - $100k pa

HR & HSE overheads

Risk

UaaS

OpEx – from $1.5k

per day.

Monthly stockpile

$18k pa

Get the end result

Risk transferred to

UaaS provider

No insurance,

maintenance and

overhead costs

Summary

What is your core business?

What is your goal?

Just another shiny new toy?

Compare the costs vs benefits