Drone Delivery Canada has announced that it will be collaborating with Bell Mobility to develop drone technology. The collaboration contract is effective from April 13. 2022 and would include the development of specific products and services to improve technology as it relates to the 5G network and multi-access edge computing for autonomous drone performance for a three-year term.
This
collaboration will lead to new revenue-generating solutions for Drone Delivery
Canada. The focus will be on developing technologies that would, in a
controlled environment, evaluate new capabilities to support Command and
Control (C2), Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS), Remote Identification
(Remote ID), and Unmanned Aerial System Traffic Management (UTM). These will be
all based on 5G and Multi-access Edge Compute (MEC).
The new
agreement also supports DDC's aim to drive further enhancements to its
proprietary drone delivery platform and its Flyte software solution. DDC will
adopt any technological advancements that result from this new collaboration
across its full fleet of delivery drones. It even includes the Condor heavy-lift
drone, which is undergoing development and commercial testing at the moment.
The CEO of Drone
Delivery Canada, Steve Magirias, stated, "We are pleased to be
collaborating with Bell to work on unique customer drone delivery projects and
also to further advance our solution to leverage the advanced technologies and
know-how that Bell brings. Technological advancements like Bell 5G,
multi-access edge computing, GPS-independent location tracking, computational
offloading, IoT, and smart grids will position DDC for the next generation of
advanced and novel drone applications in logistics, as well as mobile real-time
imaging & sensor data analytics."
He added, "Our
focus on a very broad range of drone applications fits perfectly with the wide-ranging
capabilities of Bell. Market response to our logistics solution continues to be
very favorable, and we are pleased with our ongoing commercial progress and
technology momentum."
Charlie Wade,
Vice President, Products and Services at Bell Mobility, stated, "Bell is
excited to collaborate with Drone Delivery Canada to explore new capabilities
that will leverage the speed, low latency, and coverage of Bell's 5G network,
our IoT connectivity and breadth of solutions to enable autonomous drone delivery
and related services. We're committed to fostering the growth of companies like
DDC and next-generation technologies to support Canada's growth and industry in
the years to come and look forward to collaborating further with DDC."
For those who are
unaware, Drone Delivery Canada Corp. is an ISO 9001 certified, award-winning
drone technology company that is primarily focused on the design, development,
and implementation of its proprietary logistics software platform using drones.
DDC's platform is used as a Software as a Service (SaaS) model globally for
government and corporate organizations.
It is also a publicly
listed company trading on the TSX.V Exchange under the symbol FLT, on the U.S.
OTC QX market under the symbol TAKOF and on the Frankfurt exchange in Germany
under the symbol A2AMGZ or ABB.F. To know more, visit their official website here.
Sources:
https://www.aircargonews.net/airlines/drones/drone-delivery-canada/
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/drone-delivery-canada-announces-collaboration-with-bell-for-5g-and-multi-edge-computing-initiatives-for-drones-843907769.html
https://www.stattimes.com/drones/drone-delivery-canada-and-bell-partner-to-improve-drone-technology-1345241