Drone pilots can now analyze crashes and count crowds with SkyeBrowse app

A drone can capture an entire crash scene or a packed event in seconds. Now, AI is getting better at telling crews what they’re looking at. SkyeBrowse has rolled out two new AI-powered workflows: Crush Analysis and Claims, designed for vehicle crash investigations and insurance work, and Crowd Counter, which can estimate the number of people visible in an aerial image. The latter is now available directly through the DJI RC Pro for enterprise drone operations.

From drone scan to crash analysis

For crash reconstructionists, the new Crush Analysis tool is aimed at eliminating some of the tedious work that traditionally happens after a scene has been captured.

A user can identify a damaged vehicle by year, make, model and trim, VIN or license plate. SkyeBrowse can even read a license plate from scan imagery. It then generates a catalog-accurate 3D reference of the specific vehicle and aligns it with the captured 3D model.

From there, the software measures crush depth across six stations, C1 through C6, and calculates collision metrics including a barrier-equivalent delta-V and Collision Deformation Classification code.

There’s an important advantage to doing all of this on a 3D model: the measurements aren’t just numbers in a report. Another reconstructionist can return to the model and inspect exactly where those measurements came from.

That’s a pretty compelling evolution of the drone workflow. Instead of a drone simply documenting a wreck, the captured data can become the starting point for analysis.

SkyeBrowse’s Claims workflow takes things a step further. It can analyze up to eight photographs, identify parts that may need to be replaced, repaired or inspected, provide a repair-cost pre-screen and check a claim against state total-loss rules across all 50 states and Washington, DC.

The company is careful to describe that last feature as a triage aid, rather than a final insurance decision. Licensed adjusters and individual policy terms still determine the actual outcome.

DJI pilots get an AI crowd counter

Then there’s the much simpler, and potentially very useful, Crowd Counter. Using the SkyeBrowse Flight App on the DJI RC Pro, a pilot can capture an image from the drone and get a people count within seconds. That could come in handy for event safety, emergency response, or general situational awareness when teams need a quick estimate of how many people are gathered in an area.

The fact that it happens right on the controller is the interesting part. A DJI drone pilot doesn’t necessarily have to land, pull imagery off the aircraft, send it to another computer, and then start analyzing it. The capture can immediately become useful information while the crew is still operating in the field.

For users without a Public Safety & Enterprise plan, SkyeBrowse offers three free crowd counts per day through the controller. Enterprise customers get unlimited counts. The Crowd Counter is also available through SkyeBrowse’s web app.

Crush Analysis is free across SkyeBrowse plans through October 31, 2026. After that, it becomes part of Public Safety & Enterprise models. License-plate lookups cost $1 each, with repeat lookups on the same plate free.

Taken together, the updates highlight where the enterprise ecosystem is becoming increasingly interesting: the drone isn’t necessarily the end product anymore. It’s the eyes and data collector for software that can turn aerial imagery into decisions and documentation. For public safety and investigative teams, that’s a meaningful shift from “here’s the footage we captured” to “here’s what the footage can tell us.”

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