French drone specialist Delair has signed a major strategic partnership with Intel, providing the analytical software that Intel plans to use to launch the upcoming Intel Insight offering. We spoke to Thomas Nicholls, the ex-Sigfox CMO, who joined Delair a few months ago, to find out more – and of course, ask about what happened at Sigfox. Nicholls said that Delair was born out of experience in the oil and gas pipeline industry, where its founder decided that using drones to provide monitoring services was a viable opportunity. In 2011, had seen a huge opex reduction opportunity, and so with a colleague from the oil and gas firm, plus two university friends, they launched Delair. The first design was a…