{"id":12964,"date":"2017-07-21T04:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/seven-startups-using-drones-for-inspections-monitoring\/"},"modified":"2017-07-21T04:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T03:48:00","slug":"seven-startups-using-drones-for-inspections-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/?p=12964","title":{"rendered":"Seven Startups Using Drones for Inspections &amp; Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#ndt According to an article by Phys.org, the U.S. Department of Transportation says that there is a $808.2 billion backlog of investment spending for bridges and highways, including $479.1 billion in critically needed repairs. More than two-thirds of the nation\u2019s roads and nearly 143,000 bridges are classified in &#8220;dire need&#8221; of repair or upgrades. One way to expedite all the inspections needed to arrive at these numbers is by using drones. While we\u2019ve covered industrial drones in the past, this time we\u2019re inter<br \/>\nSource: NDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#ndt According to an article by Phys.org, the U.S. Department of Transportation says that there is a $808.2 billion backlog of investment spending for bridges and highways, including $479.1 billion in critically needed repairs. More than two-thirds of the nation\u2019s roads and nearly 143,000 bridges are classified in &#8220;dire need&#8221; of repair or upgrades. One way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}