As more industries embrace digital transformation, there is a need for high quality and relevant solutions to be made available to businesses.
To this end, 5G-enabled drone technology has been hailed as a game-changer for a hostof sectors, with the potential to significantly improve cost efficiencies, make businessoperations safer and more efficient.
In recognition of this potential, Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) and Aerodyne TechnologySdn Bhd (Aerodyne) recently entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) toexplore the development of 5G, with a particular focus on drone and data technologies.The collaboration leverages the parties’ respective strengths in 5G technology andinfrastructure, as well as drone and data analytics capabilities. It presents an opportunityto evaluate and co-develop innovative 5G use cases, with a view to identifying strategicmarket needs for those use cases.
Drones and their associated technologies have compelling potential use cases across a hostof industries. The availability of ultrafast 5G speeds as well as a supportive cloudcomputing infrastructure could enable next-generation, AI-powered “swarm intelligencesystems” – a host of drones working in unison to collect multiple data points at a time.Applications include precision agriculture, with drones working to increase crop yields andprofitability for farmers.
“5G will take Industry 4.0 to the next level by facilitating unprecedented levels of flexibility,productivity and efficiency. By enabling Aerodyne to deploy their drones in a 5Genvironment, more innovative use cases can be further developed and showcased tomultiple industries. This would encourage faster adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) andA.I. solutions while building an inclusive digital ecosystem,” said Prem Kumar Menon, Headof Enterprise Strategy at DNB.
Drones have gained popularity in recent years as viable tools for both commercial andgovernmental applications in agriculture, construction, energy, mining, logistics and manyother industrial sectors. Having both pilot and drone connected to an underlying 5Gnetwork will see drones being able to serve as precision tools in these verticals, operatingwith unprecedented levels of accuracy and near imperceptible delays.Founder and Group CEO of Aerodyne, Kamarul A. Muhamed said, “5G is a game-changerin the world of connected drones. Our low-latency 4G-connected drones will be elevatedto new heights on the 5G network. This opens up a virtually unlimited range of industrialapplications and will contribute to the accelerated digitalisation of Malaysia’s industries.”
Aerodyne has been developing unmanned aerial drone solutions along with software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings for a number of fields including aerial data intelligence gathering,
emergency response and surveillance, natural resource management, intelligent resourcemanagement among others.
About DNB
Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) is a Minister of Finance Inc. company, mandated to deployMalaysia’s 5G network and infrastructure on an accelerated schedule. DNB will exclusively own, build and manage the 5G network, and provide wholesale 5G services to licensed service providers, as well as infrastructure and technology services to support and enable businesses and government capabilities. DNB is licensed as a telecommunications operator by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission. Please visit www.digital-nasional.com.my for more information.
About Aerodyne
Aerodyne Group (https://aerodyne.group) is a DT3 (Drone Tech, Data Tech, and DigitalTransformation) drone-based enterprise solutions provider, and a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence as an enabling technology for large-scale data operations, analytics, and process optimization.
Aerodyne employs over 800 drone professionals to operate on an unprecedented level in the UAS services sector, having managed more than 560,000 infrastructure assets with 458,058 flight operations and surveyed over 380,000km of power infrastructure across 35 countries globally.
Aerodyne is a recipient of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Malaysia’s ‘Industry Excellence Gold Award 2019’.
The company’s founder and Group CEO, Kamarul A Muhamed, is ‘EY’s Entrepreneur Of The Year 2020’, ‘EY’s Technology Entrepreneur Of The Year 2020 Malaysia’, ‘Technode Global’s Startup Leader of the Year 2021’, as well as ‘SEBA Entrepreneur of the Year 2020’.
