Cloud work
- 500-backed drone solutions provider, Aerodyne, is running their DRONOS software as a service (SaaS) platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS), enabling drone users to onboard, analyze, and make sense of drone data to optimize operations, drive efficiencies, and increase occupational safety.
- Infrastructure maintenance is typically done manually — this means a person would climb hundreds of feet up mobile phone towers to manually install and maintain telephone lines and communications systems.
- By automating this dangerous task, drones cut labor time down from two days to three hours, keeps professionals safe on the ground to focus on more valuable tasks, as well as reduce cellular tower operational costs by an average of 20% and manual data processing costs by more than 70%!
- Aerodyne is also helping the agriculture sector address global food security challenges through precision farming using drones. Their Agrimor platform allows farmers and agriculture service providers to use drones for agriculture seeding, spraying, plant analysis, and mapping — increasing crop yields by as much as 67%.
- Independent farmers to large palm oil plantation companies in Malaysia and Indonesia are using Agrimor to rapidly identify crop issues, like under-irrigation or disease, and deploy fertilizers or pesticides more efficiently, saving resources and ultimately driving food security and farmland profitability.
- Kamarul A. Muhamed, Founder & Group CEO shared, “Through the agility of the cloud and the use of machine learning, we can bring valuable data together to help people across agriculture, telecommunications, and energy industries make faster and better decisions about their assets on the ground. We are very proud of our DRONOS solution and what it has already achieved for mobile phone operators and are excited to replicate that success for other sectors.”
- Moving forward, the team will widen the availability of Agrimor to Brazil, India, and Pakistan. They also plan to experiment with AWS’s generative artificial intelligence capabilities to build a large language model that can help companies better plan drone flights and visualize close to 1 petabyte of drone data.
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