Malaysian drone services company uses AWS to
deliver insights for organizations in the telecommunications,
agriculture, and energy industries while reducing data processing
costs by 70% compared to on-premises infrastructure
Aerodyne’s drones are transforming cell tower
inspections by improving safety for workers
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an
Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that
Aerodyne, the world’s No. 1 drone solutions provider, is running
its DRONOS software as a service (SaaS) platform on AWS to help
drone operators worldwide grow their businesses. All-in on AWS, the
Malaysia-based startup operates drone solutions for
telecommunications, agriculture, surveillance, logistics, and
energy industries in 45 countries. DRONOS is an innovative,
end-to-end drone service platform that allows drone users to
onboard, analyze, and make sense of drone data to optimize
operations, drive efficiencies, and conduct aerial inspections to
keep workers safely on the ground.
To better maintain their infrastructure, power companies, mobile
network operators, and farmers are increasingly using drones to
collect operational data from towers, grids, and fields. Aerodyne
created a data lake on AWS using Amazon Simple Storage Service
(Amazon S3) to store and turn drone data, including images,
satellite, agriculture, and weather data, into actionable insights.
Using Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed service to build, train,
and deploy machine learning (ML) models, the company automates
infrastructure analysis on mobile phone towers and farm fields.
In the global telecommunications industry, monitoring, managing,
and accurately monetizing vast and remotely located infrastructure,
such as cell towers and antennae, is critical to ensure continual
connectivity. However, the infrastructure is often difficult to
access and complicated to examine manually. Cell tower inspections
are historically performed by human riggers, a person who scales
towers to manually install and maintain telephone lines and
communications systems by climbing hundreds of feet into the air to
visually inspect them. Drones automate this process, keeping human
riggers safely on the ground and freeing up their time to work on
higher value tasks. By automating drone data analysis in the cloud,
Aerodyne also helps cellular tower operators verify the physical
conditions of towers and available space for new antennae, cutting
labor time down from two days to three hours.
Aerodyne is also helping the agriculture sector address global
food security challenges through precision farming using drones.
With AWS, the startup has developed solutions like the
DRONOS-powered Agrimor platform, which 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. As
part of its global expansion, Aerodyne will widen the availability
of its Agrimor offering to Brazil, India, and Pakistan in the
coming years.
The rapidly growing global startup, which has doubled its
revenue annually since its inception in 2014, has met the rising
demand for new 5G cellular towers by deploying 5G antennae over 90%
faster using ML on AWS. Using AWS, Aerodyne has reduced its
customers’ cellular tower operational costs by an average of 20%
and manual data processing costs by more than 70% compared with
on-premises infrastructure.
“Working with AWS has significantly transformed our ability to
resolve complex industrial challenges, expand to more countries,
and deepen our footprint in the global drone community. Our
exponential growth is only made possible by scaling our workloads
on AWS to meet rising user demand,” said Kamarul A. Muhamed,
founder and group CEO at Aerodyne. “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, Aerodyne plans to experiment with AWS’s
generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) capabilities to
build a large language model that can help companies better plan
drone flights and visualize close to 1 petabyte of drone data,
including insights from digital twins, which are virtual
representations of physical infrastructure, like towers, solar
farms, or wind turbines. These digital twins will help Aerodyne’s
customers centralize the management of physical assets by combining
images and environmental data in real time. For example, mobile
phone operators can use the DRONOS platform to carry out more
timely preventive maintenance, using fewer workers under safer
conditions, without having to shut down cellular towers and
interrupt service. In the energy industry, Aerodyne’s drone SaaS
conducts visual and thermal inspections of infrastructure to detect
issues like leaks or vegetation intrusion, reducing maintenance
costs by 30%.
“Startups around the world rely on AWS to help them
cost-effectively and rapidly transform into data-driven companies,
and drone services are a prime example of how the latest cloud
technologies and generative AI can revolutionize an entire
industry,” said Conor McNamara, vice president of ASEAN at AWS.
“Malaysian-born startup Aerodyne is rapidly going global with AWS,
delivering its innovative drone service to customers around the
world and helping them turn insights from geospatial data into
meaningful outcomes. Aerodyne’s DRONOS platform is also helping
solve complex issues, like food security, with the transformative
power of AI, and we’re excited to support Aerodyne’s next phase of
global expansion.”
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About Aerodyne
Aerodyne is a 360DT3 drone-based enterprise solutions provider,
ranked as the world's #1 drone service provider for three
consecutive years by DII since 2023. Their holistic approach to
Drone Tech, Data Tech, and Digital Transformation (360DT3) helps
organizations overcome complex industrial challenges by leveraging
drone data and AI-powered analytics. With a team of over 1,000
drone professionals operating across 45 countries, Aerodyne
specializes in managing critical assets, such as power lines, solar
facilities, telecommunications infrastructure, agriculture, and oil
and gas operations. They enable organizations to rapidly scale,
digitally transform, optimize operations, and increase
productivity, delivering unprecedented levels of operational
efficiency.
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