How Titan Protection Security Scaled Drone Operations with a Nationwide BVLOS Waiver

About this episode

Matt Collins interviews Ryan Smith about Titan Protection Security's integration of drones into physical security and their nationwide BVLOS waiver.

In this week's episode of Uncrewed Views, Matt Collins speaks with Ryan Smith, founder and president of Titan Protection Security, about how the company has been at the forefront of integrating drones into physical security operations for over a decade. The two discuss Titan's journey from early drone experimentation in 2014 to securing a nationwide BVLOS waiver from the FAA, the process behind the company's recent one-to-many approval allowing a single remote pilot to oversee up to four drones across multiple states, and how the evolving regulatory landscape is shaping the company's growth strategy and its vision for the future of drone-as-a-service in the security industry.

People in this episode

Host: Matt Collins

Guest: Ryan Smith

Topics covered

• drone operations
• physical security
• BVLOS waiver
• regulatory landscape
• drone-as-a-service
• technology integration

Keywords

• drone
• security
• BVLOS
• FAA
• Titan Protection
• regulations
• drone operations
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Titan Protection Security, FAA

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