Defying the drone data deluge [Resources_Startups]

KSI Data Sciences, based in a former tobacco warehouse in Danville, Va., is unlike most drone startups. For one thing, this company is not designing robotic hardware or offering field services. Instead it's doing something that is perhaps more important-figuring out how to handle the information collected by our robotic minions. "Anybody can push out a video stream, but when you start wrapping it with all the telemetry data, all the sensor data, when you're trying to plot it on maps, when you're trying to make sense of the area around you, not just push out video-it gets much more complex," says the company's cofounder Jason Barton.