Drone company Swoop Aero has been approved by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) of Australia to operate the Drone Logistics Remote Operations Center (ROC) on its campus in Port Melbourne, Victoria.
According to the company, the approval allows the company to “operate like an international airliner”, remotely monitor global operations across Oceania, Africa and Europe, pilot up to five aircraft, and more in one facility. you can focus the operation. A single pilot drone that goes beyond the physical view of the aircraft via the web interface.
“ROC acts as an important feature to promote full visibility of drone operations. From a regulatory perspective, ROC ensures that Swoop Aero meets the highest aviation and safety standards at the world level. We do, “said Zachary Kennedy, Chief Regulatory Officer for Swoop Aero.
Swoop Aero plans to increase the number of remote pilot operations by one pilot to 30 drones within the next few months, and is on track to reach the goal of providing drone logistics services to 1 billion people by 2030. I advertised that I would ride on.
The company also added that the ROC will continue to serve as an educational resource for training and improving new pilots.
Since last year, Swoop is a Queensland Victoria To provide healthcare services to remote communities. The company expects to receive approval to deploy services in each state by the end of the year after these tests.
The study is behind the existing work that Swoop is doing in Malawi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique and Banuatu, offering medicines such as malaria and tuberculosis vaccines, penicillin, antimalaria drugs and antitoxic drugs. , And HIV / AIDS test kits from healthcare centers to remote villages. On return trips, drones often also test for tuberculosis and other blood samples.
Is the CEO of SwoopAero EricPeck told previously ZDNet The company hopes to be able to provide the same services to rural and remote areas of Indonesia and Australia, especially indigenous communities.
At the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Australia and New Zealand Summit on Thursday, Peck’s detailed Swoop Aero drone network is backed by a combination of AWS cloud and machine learning technology. This will allow the company to interact with air traffic control and unmanned traffic management systems. , And manned aircraft in the same vicinity will allow the drone to land autonomously, accurately and safely when deployed.
Peck added that the company has developed a digital twin of its aircraft hardware and software, so it fully monitors all aircraft and each of its 17 modules.
“We keep the aircraft’s digital shadows in the cloud, collate specific flight data throughout the aircraft’s life cycle, and use machine learning to train that data, from manufacturing to service to lifespan. Until, it tracks all modules and monitors their status. “He said.
“This fleet digital twin is managed by combining the Amazon AWS IoT device shadow service with the Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database, where aircraft perform automatic checks on shadows and fleet managers access insights through online applications.
“By leveraging Digital Shadow, we can trigger remote updates of all chips running on all aircraft at the same time. This announces that the aircraft will launch in the morning and have a 5 minute update. It’s as easy as that. Start flying for the day. This means you can manage and update your entire global fleet from the center of the AWS cloud. “