[dylan604]

I worked at a place that provided services to railroad owners. This was back in the 90s, but they had camera rigs on engines that would record multiple angles along the train routes. They would store that footage in massive tape libraries to be used as reference to see the terrain in an area that service was needed to they'd know what kind of equipment would be necessary as well as a visual of the tracks themselves. They could not update the footage as fast as they liked. IIRC, footage was over a year old before getting updated.

Just another suggestion of a sector you could gain traction as it wasn't listed.

[wweissbluth]

Oh 100% - we think rail would be an excellent market. But as you've stated, they already have a thing moving around (the train) to take photos.

We see less delta in our service (but still something). There's certain perspectives only our aerial vantage point could capture, but we're too focused on power utilities right now to run that to ground just yet.

[dylan604]

Sometimes, you might be able to get a twofer, in that transmission lines often run very near tracks. However, somebody would be getting inferior imagery if they weren't the focus of the camera. But if the tracks are near enough to your lines with chargers installed, it might still allow some low hanging fruit after your initial client win. Maybe make your base stations cable of handling two drones; one for the power lines, the second for the tracks. I'm more rambling than tempting your focus. Just fun to think about.

Curious, does a straight flyover of lines/towers/poles offer the footage necessary, or do you have to orbit the support structure to see enough detail? That would obviously add much more time/expense.