Resources
Operator-Grade Resources for Inspection Programs
Operator-grade resources for inspection planning, CMMS-ready workflows, and the policy environment shaping commercial drone operations. Written for facility, reliability, and maintenance leaders who need substance, not marketing.
Sample Deliverables
What a Stratum Inspection Cycle Produces
Concrete examples of the structured findings, severity ratings, and condition records your maintenance team would receive.
Sample Essential Asset Watch Deliverable
Walk through what a recurring annual roof inspection produces — severity-rated defect log, georeferenced photo evidence, and the structured PDF/CSV findings file your maintenance team would receive.
Request a Sample DeliverablePilot Summary: Baseline Roof and Exterior Asset Assessment
A short, anonymized walk-through of an initial baseline inspection at a Northeast Ohio commercial facility — what was scoped, what was found, how findings were classified, and how the deliverable was structured for the client's maintenance workflow.
Request the Pilot SummaryInspection Planning Guides
How to Scope and Run a Recurring Program
Practical guides for setting cadence, defining scope, and connecting drone findings to the systems that drive maintenance work.
Inspection Frequency Framework for Northeast Ohio Facilities
How to set cadence by asset class — roofs, overhead structures, crane runways, solar, mechanical, and stormwater — for facilities operating in the Northeast Ohio climate and storm cycle. A reference for building a defensible inspection schedule.
Request the FrameworkHow CMMS-Ready Drone Findings Become Work Orders
The integration patterns that move a drone-captured defect from a severity-rated finding into a structured work order — with asset tags, location codes, priority, and trade classification — inside IBM Maximo, FIIX, UpKeep, or Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Request the BriefThe Facility Manager's Guide to Drone Roof Inspections
What to expect from a commercial drone roof inspection — flight planning, deliverables, severity ratings, and how a recurring program differs from a one-off flight. A practical overview for facility managers evaluating drone services.
Read the GuideIndustry Perspectives & Regulatory Commentary
The Policy Environment Shaping Commercial Drone Operations
Founder-written perspectives on the federal rulemaking that defines what industrial and commercial drone operators can do — and the framework Stratum thinks should guide it.
What the BVLOS Rule Needs to Get Right for Industrial Drone Operations
Stratum's formal public comment to the FAA on Beyond Visual Line of Sight rulemaking (Docket FAA–2025–1908). Performance-based standards, layered safety, simple right-of-way logic, risk-scaled detect-and-avoid, and realistic transition timelines for industrial operators.
Read the ArticleWhy Commercial Drone Policy Needs a Risk-Based Framework
Stratum's formal public comment to the FCC on commercial drone hardware regulation (Proceeding DA 26-22). The case for a tiered commercial-use framework that distinguishes enterprise inspection from national-security-sensitive contexts — built around operator certification, data handling, and operational context.
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