Sony plans to offer commercial drone services targeting the construction, logistics and agriculture industries next year. The company’s Aerosense Inc. venture is making automated drones to capture high-definition images and transmit them to the cloud for analysis, Sony told reporters Monday in Tokyo. The jointly owned company with robotics firm ZMP Inc. expects sales to total about 10 billion yen by 2020, said Kotaro Sabe, Aerosense chief technology officer.

Sony is looking to find another use for its mobile phone and digital camera technologies in the nascent drone market. The unmanned aircraft industry has already attracted investments from Google, General Electric and Qualcomm despite privacy and safety concerns.