Digital Nasional Berhad collaborates with Aerodyne to explore the 5G
future with drones

As more industries embrace digital transformation, there is a need for high quality and relevant solutions to be made available to businesses.

To this end, 5G-enabled drone technology has been hailed as a game-changer for a host
of sectors, with the potential to significantly improve cost efficiencies, make business
operations safer and more efficient.

In recognition of this potential, Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) and Aerodyne Technology
Sdn Bhd (Aerodyne) recently entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to
explore the development of 5G, with a particular focus on drone and data technologies.
The collaboration leverages the parties’ respective strengths in 5G technology and
infrastructure, as well as drone and data analytics capabilities. It presents an opportunity
to evaluate and co-develop innovative 5G use cases, with a view to identifying strategic
market needs for those use cases.

Drones and their associated technologies have compelling potential use cases across a host
of industries. The availability of ultrafast 5G speeds as well as a supportive cloud
computing infrastructure could enable next-generation, AI-powered “swarm intelligence
systems” – a host of drones working in unison to collect multiple data points at a time.
Applications include precision agriculture, with drones working to increase crop yields and
profitability for farmers.

“5G will take Industry 4.0 to the next level by facilitating unprecedented levels of flexibility,
productivity and efficiency. By enabling Aerodyne to deploy their drones in a 5G
environment, more innovative use cases can be further developed and showcased to
multiple industries. This would encourage faster adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) and
A.I. solutions while building an inclusive digital ecosystem,” said Prem Kumar Menon, Head
of Enterprise Strategy at DNB.

Drones have gained popularity in recent years as viable tools for both commercial and
governmental applications in agriculture, construction, energy, mining, logistics and many
other industrial sectors. Having both pilot and drone connected to an underlying 5G
network will see drones being able to serve as precision tools in these verticals, operating
with unprecedented levels of accuracy and near imperceptible delays.
Founder and Group CEO of Aerodyne, Kamarul A. Muhamed said, “5G is a game-changer
in the world of connected drones. Our low-latency 4G-connected drones will be elevated
to new heights on the 5G network. This opens up a virtually unlimited range of industrial
applications and will contribute to the accelerated digitalisation of Malaysia’s industries.”

Aerodyne has been developing unmanned aerial drone solutions along with software-as-a-
service (SaaS) offerings for a number of fields including aerial data intelligence gathering,

emergency response and surveillance, natural resource management, intelligent resource
management among others.

About DNB

Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) is a Minister of Finance Inc. company, mandated to deploy
Malaysia’s 5G network and infrastructure on an accelerated schedule. DNB will exclusively own, build and manage the 5G network, and provide wholesale 5G services to licensed service providers, as well as infrastructure and technology services to support and enable businesses and government capabilities. DNB is licensed as a telecommunications operator by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission. Please visit www.digital-nasional.com.my for more information.

About Aerodyne

Aerodyne Group (https://aerodyne.group) is a DT3 (Drone Tech, Data Tech, and Digital
Transformation) drone-based enterprise solutions provider, and a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence as an enabling technology for large-scale data operations, analytics, and process optimization.

Aerodyne employs over 800 drone professionals to operate on an unprecedented level in the UAS services sector, having managed more than 560,000 infrastructure assets with 458,058 flight operations and surveyed over 380,000km of power infrastructure across 35 countries globally.

Aerodyne is a recipient of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Malaysia’s ‘Industry Excellence Gold Award 2019’.

The company’s founder and Group CEO, Kamarul A Muhamed, is ‘EY’s Entrepreneur Of The Year 2020’, ‘EY’s Technology Entrepreneur Of The Year 2020 Malaysia’, ‘Technode Global’s Startup Leader of the Year 2021’, as well as ‘SEBA Entrepreneur of the Year 2020’.