Stampede has brought its Drone Arena back to Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2017, currently underway in Amsterdam, showcasing more vendors and more SKUs, and offering more training classes for attendees.
"The global AV industry in general, and the European AV market in particular, has experienced first-hand the exponential impact Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Drone Video Systems are making in virtually every vertical market served by ProAV resellers, dealers, and system integrators," says Stampede President & COO Kevin Kelly. "In particular, we have seen major growth in real estate, commercial and residential construction, facility management, film and television production, live event production and infrastructure inspections."
According to Kelly, Drone Video Systems (DVS) integrate videoconferencing software with drone hardware to create a single system solution that provides a 360° HD aerial perspective of any situation that can be streamed in real-time to any connected mobile device or computer.
Throughout the ISE 2017 exhibition, Stampede has been running demonstrations at the Drone Arena of different types of drones and unmanned vehicles for a full range of applications. Visitors to the Stampede Drone Arena have the opportunity to enter to win a DJI drone. The winner will be selected and announced at noon on Friday, February 10.
ISE 2016 (Photo by Bob Griffin)
Participating companies at this year's Stampede Drone Arena include Yuneec, DJI, VideoBank, Virtual Air Boss, Trackimo, Agrowing, GPC, xFold, Amimon, Elistair, Droneify, Hoverfly, Christie, Vidyo, Aerialtronics, and Hitachi.
Also making its debut at this year's arena is the first-ever edition of the Stampede European Big Book of AV, featuring 394 pages that showcase products and solutions from leading manufacturers in every product category. In addition to the printed book, visitors can also view the online versions of the book at www.bigbookofav.com, and can download the mobile application from the iTunes and Android stores.
"We will have a full team of professionals who are fully versed in every one of the drones being showcased," says Kelly. "Visitors will be able to obtain a very detailed introduction to what specific models can do for their business. Representatives from Unmanned Vehicle University, our strategic partner, will also be on hand to provide visitors with an overview of all of the different types of certificate and degree programs available to them and their customers. We learned a great deal from our first experience at ISE 2016 and, as a result, we've taken steps to ensure that the products and information we have available at ISE 2017 will help our partners to become even more successful with this exciting and rapidly growing product category."
At top: Stampede's Mark Wilkins (left) and Kevin Kelly pose in the Drone Arena at the 2016 ISE trade show last February. Photo by Bob Griffin