Customer-Led Innovation: What’s Next for Drone Harmony in 2026
- Jeannine Stoll
- 3 days ago
- 3 min read
We’ve been thinking about the future here at Drone Harmony recently; here’s a snapshot of what’s coming in 2026.
Interest in Dock usage continues to grow, and more and more different use cases are being tried out by our customers. We love to see the different ideas they have and how they can use Dock in innovative ways. In order to help these and our future customers continue to innovate and stay within the limits by the aviation authorities in their regions, we’ll be bringing more ways to ensure compliance - think easier flight approvals, more notifications about automated flights, and more refined tools for keeping track of all parts of a mission - from planning to approval.
DJI’s own payload list for Dock continues to grow, and you’ve told us - spotlight, speaker and even infrared spotlights are all on your radar! We’ll be bringing those in 2026 and continuing to improve our enterprise offerings, such as support for TURN (Traversal Using Relays around NAT) to guarantee video connectivity even in environments with complex network configurations.
When it comes to Asset Inspector, we’ve got big plans. You might have heard before that we are expanding our list of drone hardware that can be directly controlled from the Drone Harmony app on the remote control. That work will start to appear in the coming months - we can’t name names yet, but you’ll see some familiar NDAA certified options soon.
That’s actually not the biggest hardware story coming to Asset Inspector - we’re wrapping up work that will let you bring in imagery from nearly any hardware that creates geotagged images. That means even for hardware that doesn’t support Drone Harmony, you’ll still be able to leverage all the intelligence and convenience of automatically associating images with your field assets without making life harder for pilots or inspectors by using our new Drone Harmony Collect app on a phone, tablet or even a remote control for another drone. What’s the bottom line? Fly with any drone (NDAA included), and you’ll still have full Asset Inspector functionality in the field and in the office. All data collected regardless of device or method will be able to be feed into the same data ingestion pipeline.
Out in the field collecting assets a lot? We’re going to make your life easier with some new designs that put pilot’s needs first, like a cleaner UI, better selection tools, seamless save and sync and easy display of the active scope. Tablet support for image upload means you’ll be able to upload all day long from an alternate device - no need to spend your evening babysitting file uploads from a hotel room!
We’ve already started rolling out more data access, and 2026 will bring more data availability and more ways to access and view information about your work. Expect dashboards in Dock and Asset Inspector for all your basic needs such as flight time, project progress, type of missions, who authorized vs who monitored a mission and more.
As always, future plans can change, and we can’t do everything. With that in mind, here are some concepts that have our attention, but aren’t sure things. One is the idea of a mobile app to ease life for site managers using Drone Harmony for Dock - it could allow quick onsite validation that it's safe for a scheduled mission to take off and an easy way to monitor the view from the drone in one place. Another active idea for Asset Inspector is the ability to do the ground inspection component of an asset inspection, complete with taking photos, completing a task checklist and entering external details, like the result of a core sample or measurements from special hardware. Interested in either of those? Have feedback about other features you’d like? Contact Nate Moore, Product Manager at nate@droneharmony.com
We at Drone Harmony hope that you all have great plans for 2026 and that the year treats you well!
