Tuesday, January 07, 2020

Amazon's Cloud arm to drive drone innovation in India

New Delhi, Jan 6 : The Drone Federation of India (DFI) on Monday announced to make Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred Cloud service to boost the development and innovation around creating a perfect drone ecosystem in the country.
 The non-profit industry body will work with retail giant Amazon's Cloud arm to help provide a scalable, agile and secure Cloud infrastructure for drone manufacturers, application developers and operators to develop drone applications and accelerate time-to-market in India.

"AWS was a natural choice for us which will help drone manufacturers and developers as its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities, open data sets and technical prowess are simply unmatched," Rahat Kulshreshtha, President, DFI, told IANS.

The industry body signed an MoU with AWS at the 'Drone Festival of India 2020' here.

The collaboration will identify use cases for drones in India across various application areas such as land survey, precision agriculture, disaster management, and search and rescue missions, and build custom cloud-based solutions.

According to Rahul Sharma, President, India and South Asia Public Sector, Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd (AISPL), verticals like agriculture, healthcare, smart cities, etc will see significant drone deployment in the near future.

"AWS Open Data sets with granularity will let drone developers innovate further and deeper. With industry-leading compute, storage, database, IoT, AI and L, drone developers and operators can now test new ideas quickly, and accelerate innovation," Sharma told IANS.
06/01/20 New Kerala
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