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or if you have X amount of people in a specific location . We can use different kinds of algorithms to identify the number of people that have gone missing , for example . There are specific applications that we can develop and deploy that increases the safety of facilities and that ’ s a core capability .
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Is the mining industry slower to adopt technology than other industries ? With drones , industries began to look for took a tool that is better than a camera . I ’ ll give you an example . One of the things that made us move from an application-based company to a platform is the fact that we talked to people from Siemens and they told us , ‘ look , today drones are used basically to replace . It ’ s a tool for people to replace ropes ’ because they use drones for wind turbine inspection . They basically replace the rope with a drone . Apply that to mining . They replaced walking around the stockpile with using a drone as a tool to do the assessment , but it can be much more than that . It can be an integral part of the whole operation of the system when it ’ s ongoing . That ’ s the difference here , I think , in the mindset and I think that difference starts to trickle down in specific companies .
There ’ s an understanding now that we ’ re not only looking at drones as just another component , another wrench in your tool box , but as full systems that can provide value to the security team , to the
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