An Open Source Drone Platform is More Relevant than Ever

Romeo Durscher, VP of Public Safety at open source drone platform Auterion is a drone industry hero, paving the way for drone use in emergency response and public safety.  In a DRONELIFE Exclusive interview from the floor of AUVSI’s Xponential 2022, Durscher says that an open source drone platform like Auterion’s is all about giving manufacturers the opportunity to innovate, giving customers the widest range of choice, and ultimately improving the entire workflow of commercial drone use.

And as countries around the world become more concerned with security, says Durscher, open source offers unmatched levels of transparency and safety.

Auterion takes the most widely developed open source drone platform and makes it easy for manufacturers to use.  It’s an efficient system: with many participants from around the world, open source code develops more quickly than code developed by any one company.

“There is nothing new about open source, but it’s new in the…