Informationweek's Expert Voice

Intel is in the drone business. It is, of course, in many other businesses, but on November 4 the company released a video showing a fleet of 500 drones creating an illuminated display under the control of a single operator. Besides requiring regulatory relief from aviation authorities, the demonstration required that 500 individual computers work as a unit. The drones had become a single compute platform. The idea that drones might be a compute platform used by industry, civil authorities, and entertainment companies is new but some would consider it inevitable, since drones have long been thought of as part of the Internet of Things. Anil Nanduri is one who does think of drones as a compute platform and he's the subject of this episode of InformationWeek's Expert Voice. Anil V. Nanduri is vice president in the New Technology Group and general manager of Unmanned Aviation Systems for the Perceptual Computing Group at Intel Corporation. He's responsible for Intel’s unmanned aviation systems business. Nanduri