Jamie Bailey Alan Perlman FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 0528/03101/164

CEO, Initial StateFounder, UAV Coach

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1,500+ Drone Pilots Speak Their Mind About U.S. Drone Regulations

Initial State Launches and Celebrates Version 2.0 of Cloud-Based Debugging ToolsRaises $1M to Keep IoT Data Simple

ESharing results from av market research survey conducted in March & April 2016ent-driven data platform offers real-time streaming to makers and engineers.Log data visualization platform now offers more data security with offline mode.

NashvilleNew York, TNNY: Today, UAV Coach, an sUAS industry portal and training center for new drone pilots, published results from a market research survey conducted in March & April 2016. The survey aimed to explore the habits and opinions of U.S. drone pilots interested in operating commercially.

“Many believe the dangers imposed by drones are being over-exaggerated and not fully understood,” says founder, Alan Perlman. “Others recognize the challenge of safely integrating thousands of new UAS pilots into the national airspace, and what that means for the aviation industry. For these reasons and more, the UAV Coach team put together a survey on sUAS/drone regulations in the U.S.”

Over a period of 30 days, 1,530 drone pilots weighed in on their habits and opinions of U.S. drone regulations. Key survey insights include:

  • Education is Paramount. Many drone pilots take to the skies without any formal training in the National Airspace System (NAS).
  • Inconsistent Communication. When contacting airports, heliports, and air traffic control, drone pilots are seeing a wide range of (mostly positive) responses.
  • Culture of Non-Compliance. Even though it is currently required to hold a manned aircraft license if you’re serving as the drone Pilot-in-Command (PIC) under the Section 333 Exemption, more than 50% of operators are NOT licensed pilots.

The full market research survey report (and an infographic that summarizes the key findings) is made available here.

Initial State, an event-driven log data visualization platform that helps makers and engineers capture and understand product their data more effectively, launched v2.0 of its tools to the public, and to a Beta community of 1500 users. “We make it easy to capture and visualize data from Internet-connected services and devices (Internet of Things, IoT),” says founder Jamie Bailey. “We built Initial State so that hobbyists (makers), small companies, and enterprise alike can easily and affordably harness the power of the IoT.”

Initial State offers a free tier, as well as paid tiers that cost $1/mo for every 1 million events that are streamed.

Users can go from sign-up to viewing their first real-time data stream in less than two minutes. “Our users take advantage of our tools to monitor and debug their drones, home automation systems, greenhouses, irrigation systems, hobby projects, classroom projects, and so much more,” Bailey added.

Through custom, interactive data visualizations that run in the web browser, Initial State users can mine, analyze, transform, and simply see their data at-a-glance.

a community of 435 ~500 Beta usersparticipants from 35 countries.. Two significant feature improvements include instant view, whichsignificantly speeds up transformation of log data into interactive data visualizations withoutthe lagassociated with traditional web applications, and unplugged, which enables offline use for data-sensitive engineers, and instant upload, . Users now have the option to debug in the cloud without their data ever going to the cloud.which significantly speeds up log file data uploads,

Of the company’s recent feature upgrades, Initial State’s CEO Jamie Bailey said, “Each year, $1133B is spent debugging product data in the U.S. alone, and rather than innovating on new technologies, engineers are spending the majority of their time debugging. There’s a huge opportunity to help engineers do their jobs more effectively. Over the last couple of months, some of our Beta users told us that their company security policy restrictions were holding them back. Today, we're proud to deliver features that not only address this roadblock but also greatly increase the speed of the user experience.”

Over the last couple of months, our Beta users asked for more security and faster processing times, and today we’re proud to deliver results. Our team has greater comfort knowing our tools work in a native environment, a significant request from those with data-in-the-cloud security concerns.”

The test-and-measurement space is undergoing a massive transformation:

Today, there are 4.over 185 million engineers in the U.Sworldwide. that work on products that produce data.

Cisco has predicted that by 2020, over 50 billion devices will be connected.

More connected devices will produce an explosion of log data to be debuggedthat will be used for analysis and debug.

About Initial StateUAV Coach: Founded in 2014, Initial StateUAV Coachis an sUAS industry portal and online training center for new drone pilots, boasting one of the largest subscriber bases in the industry. UAV Coach offers training in multirotor flight proficiency, regulatory compliance, cinematography, and more.is an event-driven log data visualization platform that helps makers and engineers capture, stream, and analyze event-driven data and understand product data more effectively. Founded in 2012, Initial State opened its doors to Beta users in May 2014, growing its community from a handful of engineering users to 435 ~15500 Beta members in 31 35 countries .participants.

Initial State has six team members, including chief executive officer and founder Jamie Bailey, chief technical officer and founder David Sulpy, director of business development and founder Raymond Jacobs, front-end development lead Adam Reeves, software developer Vanessa Magalong, and user specialist Rachel-Chloe Gibbs.The company anticipates launching a paid product this fall. For a limited time, engineers are encouraged to join the free Beta program.