You’re reading it here first: Vodafone Idea is set to enter India’s drone ecosystem by partnering with Zomato in the upcoming “beyond visual line of sight” (BVLOS) drone experiments being organised by India's civil aviation regulator, a company source confirmed to MediaNama. BVLOS drone operations allow remote piloting of drones, and do not need to be manoeuvred by keeping the drone in sight. This a crucial use case for the industry from a commercialisation perspective, according to multiple people from the industry. Vodafone Idea and Zomato are part of the ClearSky consortium, which is one of the 13 consortia that have been been allowed by the DGCA to partake in the trials. ClearSky includes Gurugram-based drone startup TechEagle Innovations, Bengaluru-based AI company Curl Analytics, and US-based drone traffic management company, Airmap, another source involved in the project confirmed to us. Even though TechEagle is no longer a part of Zomato, both the companies have said that they will go ahead with the trials. TechEagle's founder and CEO Vikram Singh Meena is the project coordinator for the ClearSky consortium. Vodafone Idea to provide SIM cards for communication between the drone Vodafone Idea will provide LTE support to TechEagle’s drones that’ll take flight as part of the project, another person involved in the project told MediaNama, on the condition of anonymity. “The drones will be attached with a device with a Vodafone Idea SIM in it, which can be used to connect to the internet and gather data such as weather updates and airspace…
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