Skydio House Scan™
Roof inspections have never been easier thanks to drones. Skydio House Scan™ enables inspectors and roofing contractors to conduct roof inspections in a fraction of the time in comparison to traditional methods. This product was built to integrate with EagleView’s inspection and mapping services.
In 2020, EagleView, a leading technology provider of aerial imagery, data analytics, and GIS solutions partnered with Skydio on a exclusive property inspection partnership for automated residential roof inspection with drones.
This was part of a multi-year, multi-million-dollar exclusive partnership to deliver Skydio House Scan to several major country markets. This partnership brought the power of precision drone technology and AI to insurance carriers, claims adjusters, and government bodies resulting in the largest (at the time) ever commercial drone deployment with thousands of units deployed.
As the product designer, I was responsible for creating an end to end workflow that enabled inspection professionals to capture every inch of a roof without ever needing to climb a ladder and risk injury.
Introducing an autonomous flying vehicle to professionals who are not expert pilots nor familiar with autonomy requires surfacing vital pieces of information, such as what is the drone doing, what is it going to do next, and how and when can a human intervene. To do this, we created a workflow outlining the entire aerial inspection process that took place with the drone while incorporating components of the Skydio 2 app that communicated telemetry, vehicle behavior, and safety functions. Due to Skydio’s unparalleled autonomy and obstacle avoidance, inspectors were able to focus on their job and not worry about flying.