Drones, claims & Canadian airspace.
Field notes from nearly a decade of flying insurance inspections in Canada: CAT response, technology adoption, regulation, and what actually works on a roof.
How Drone Services Are Transforming CAT Claims
Why Insurance and Roofing Professionals Are Turning to DSC for Reliable, Fast, and Consistent CAT Response The CAT Season is Coming. Are You Ready? Insurers, adjusters, and contractors are under growing pressure to deliver faster, impartial claims outcomes as catastrophic weather events grow in both frequency and severity. After a record-breaking 2024, drone-captured data has […]
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CAT Solutions
Longer, more intense, and more frequent CAT seasons have been a feature of North American weather patterns in the recent past and are likely to continue in future. For many insurers, the use of drones has become a valuable addition to their inspection and assessment processes. Here’s a quick overview of why drone inspections make […]
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Drones and Tech and Claims
Drones have finally made it into mainstream insurance use and what better way to learn about their impact at the front end of the industry than to hear direct from some of the industry’s early users. We interviewed drone pilots in Canada and Australia and here’s what they said: Rohan McPhee and Brett Sanderson – […]
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7 Winning Features of Successful Tech Adopters
What we learned while working on drone-based software implementation projects in 2019 We partnered with numerous insurance, inspection, restoration, and roofing companies in 2019 to help them deploy a drone-based asset inspection program. We already had deep historical business relationships in these industries but the difference in 2018/2019 was the relative newness of aerial inspections. […]
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5 Reasons for the Canadian P&C Industry to Look Up
Call it a UAV, UAS, drone, RPA, RPV, or quadcopter. It doesn’t matter. What matters is that it’s up there so that you can stay down here and it’s a great enabler. UAVs have the insurance world buzzing. UAVs have been available for a few years. However, equipment costs, flight time, training and certification requirements, […]
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UAVs: Killer Drones or Safety Equipment?
This article is for the Canadian insurance, IA, roofing, and restoration industries and is based on current Transport Canada regulations. UAVs are becoming more visible in the insurance, IA, roofing, and restoration workplaces and it is important for potential new entrants to separate relevant facts from general perceptions. This will allow for rational decisions when […]
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Drones in Restoration
When it comes to roof inspections, ‘Drones are the Future’. Now what? Buying a drone is easy. But using a drone for roof inspections, not so much. Figuring out how to conduct roof inspections by using a drone legally, skillfully, safely, and profitably, while simultaneously getting better and faster data, all while protecting people’s privacy, […]
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Canadian Company Receives Nation-Wide Federal Drone Operating Certificate
Automated Drone Property and Roof Inspections Toronto, ON, May 1, 2018–Leading drone services provider for the insurance and roofing industries, Drone Software Canada Inc. (DSC), has been awarded a Nation-wide Complex Restricted Standing Special Flight Operations Certificate from Transport Canada. This advanced Standing SFOC allows DSC to operate Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or ‘drones’) weighing 25 […]
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