NEW DELHI: Indian drone supply and logistics startup Skye Air Mobility is about to start its first industrial drone supply undertaking at scale in April, in partnership with Indian diagnostics service supplier, Redcliffe Labs.
Ankit Kumar, chief govt of Skye Air, mentioned, whereas a industrial pilot undertaking is underway between the 2 corporations, the upcoming undertaking will mark the primary industrial drone supply undertaking past the testing part.
Kumar additionally claimed that the partnership with Redcliffe Labs is the primary at this scale in India. “We’ll start with choose districts, and the primary part of the undertaking will embrace 1,000 deliveries per 30 days,” he added.
To make sure, this isn’t the primary ever industrial drone supply undertaking in India, since pilot tasks have been executed by many different drone supply operators, reminiscent of drone startup TechEagle. Nonetheless, Skye Air claims that that is the primary industrial drone supply undertaking in India at scale, providing bulk supply companies for companies.
The corporate has been working industrial drone supply pilot tasks since September 2021, and claims to have accomplished 1,000 drone deliveries in India in partnership with the likes of Flipkart, Blue Dart, Dunzo and Redcliffe Labs. Kumar mentioned that Skye Air is now seeking to elevate its first spherical of pre-seed funding by the top of March 2022, in a bid to scale up industrial tasks.
Drone supply tasks acquired a inexperienced mild in India after the Indian authorities relaxed the drone rules within the nation in February. The brand new guidelines have established wider zones that allow industrial drone operations, and a brand new digital platform referred to as Digital Sky can also be being labored on for simpler coordination throughout the trade.
Kumar mentioned Skye Air was additionally engaged on a bigger variety of industrial tasks at a bigger scale, which in flip can assist the corporate provide drone deliveries at lowe prices. “We hope to execute 100,000 drone deliveries within the subsequent one 12 months. Tasks at such scale can assist our companions scale back the general supply price to one-third of current prices – and even in that, we might have a 40% margin for a similar,” Kumar mentioned.
Supply: Live Mint