CHICAGO, Jan. 30, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- Epazz, Inc. (OTC: EPAZ) is pleased to announce it has formed Farm Drone, Inc. as a wholly-owned subsidiary for the company’s drone tracking solutions for the hemp industry that has now been legalized.

Farm Drone, Inc. will develop automated drone tracking solutions to eliminate routine tasks for the growing $10.6 billion hemp industry by 2025. Drone technologies have lowered the cost of air-based tasks that previously required pilots but now can be performed by drone and machine learning. Farm Drone will use drone and machine learning to track the rate of growth in hemp. Drones will be used to take daily and hourly images in a pattern determined by the artificial intelligence. The machine learning software will learn on hemp grow and predict the growth rate.

Epazz’s CEO, Shaun Passley, Ph.D., said, “We are utilizing world class technologies in order to create value added solutions which will dramatically enhance the capabilities of our software in order for businesses and governments to lower their costs. Farm Drone, Inc. will use drone technology and machine learning to provide valuable data to potential customers and may be spun off as an IPO.”

About Epazz, Inc. (www.epazz.com)

Epazz, Inc., is a leading cloud-based software company that specializes in providing customized cloud applications to the corporate world, higher education institutions and the public sector. Epazz BoxesOS™ v3.0 is the complete business web-based software package for small to midsize businesses, Fortune 500 enterprises, government agencies and higher education institutions. BoxesOS provides many of the web-based applications organizations would otherwise need to purchase separately. Epazz’s other products are DeskFlex™ (hoteling software) and Provitrac™ (an applicant-tracking system).

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