New Modem Transforms Drone Fleet Management
- By CDOTrends editors
- April 20, 2023
Australian company Advanced Navigation has launched a cellular micro-modem that taps into 4G and 5G networks. It enables drone fleet managers to live-stream, command and control their fleets through a web browser.
CEO and co-founder of Advanced Navigation Xavier Orr believes the development of CGConnect, which plugs into the company’s existing drone fleet management platform Cloud Ground Control, delivers a simple solution for multi-drone operation “which is becoming more and more commonplace in our lives.”
“In the drone age, humans rely on drones and robotic vehicles to achieve physically demanding and even unattainable tasks,” Orr said.
CGConnect provides real-time camera feed data to support versatile missions with autonomous vehicles using AI algorithms running in the cloud for object detection, tracking, and thermal imaging.
The flexible and customizable open platform operates on industry standards, allowing diverse autonomous vehicles to operate as a coordinated fleet.
The platform simplifies multi-drone operation and supports AI for intensive object identification and classification on the vehicle during dynamic missions.
The technology is being used by US company Clean Earth Rovers, which operates a fleet of autonomous vehicles that monitor the quality of oceans.
The company has used CGConnect to transform its cleaning Rover AVPro robots into a connected autonomous fleet, giving customers full situational awareness in real-time.
The Rover AVPro collects physical and chemical pollutants that have flowed into harbors and communities, supporting immediate disaster relief and the restoration of ocean health.
The Clean Earth Rovers deployed CGConnect across its fleet of aqua-drones, giving the robots access to the Cloud Ground Control platform. It enables emergency services or any permitted individual to log in through a web browser to view real-time footage from each robot’s perspective.
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