Akihabara News (Tokyo) – NTT e-Drone Technology and Switzerland-based Auterion have announced a partnership to develop drones for agricultural purposes.
The alliance pairs NTT e-Drone Technology, a firm that promotes the social implementation of drones towards a sustainable society, with Auterion, a software company with the aim of implementing drone technologies to further support smart farming and infrastructure management.
NTT e-Drone will begin development of drones using Auterion’s software to collect, store, and share data in real-time responses with the aim of enabling a more efficient workflow. The software will be incorporated into drones that will feature LTE, 5G support, remote control, and autonomous navigation.
The companies explained that they aim to boost the implementation of drone technology into key areas such agriculture, inspection, surveying, and disaster countermeasures. They will allow a multitude of companies to access their software using Auterion’s open-source platform, even in remote areas.
Auterion CEO Lorenz Meier adds that this collaboration will allow farmers in rural areas to troubleshoot problems in real time, thus allowing the them to increase yields.
“With widespread deployment of smart farming drone fleets, Japan may even surpass its 45% food sustainability goal in the next few years,” he contends.
According to Meier, “while you cannot have 10,000 expert infrastructure inspectors in the field, you can have 10,000 drones delivering data in real time to a handful of experts in the office using powerful analysis software.”
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