Just ahead of Intel’s launch of its Insight Platform for drones, SoftBank announced that it was partnering with DroneDeploy on a similar offering. The move by two giants into the potentially lucrative drone services market highlights this as a growth area, as more enterprises begin realizing the potential uses for drones in their businesses. Wireless Watch’s sister service, Rethink IoT, recently profiled Delair, the company behind the Intel Insight Platform. Intel is licensing Delair Stack, the software component that evolved as Delair sold its advanced fixed-wing drones to customers. These users found that they wanted to perform analytics functions on the video and lidar scans that their drones captured, and Delair worked to facilitate that. Meanwhile, SoftBank has been working with DroneDeploy…