PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. – Upward Drone Solutions was only in business for a few months before the coronavirus pandemic hit and much of its work cleaning the exteriors of buildings dried up.Andy Godfrey, CEO of the Pensacola Beach-based business, said that’s when he and engineers at the company had to pivot on the type of service they provided.
They reconfigured a 55-pound drone from its original use cleaning the outsides of buildings, such as hotels, to disinfecting surfaces with powerful sanitizer.“Basically the market that we had stopped.
Exterior commercial cleaning just ended. They didn’t have budgets for it. A lot of places closed down. We knew we could adapt to this and we have, and now this has become obviously very significant,”.