Company profile
KDDI Smart Drone
KDDI Smart Drone provides connected-drone services for inspection, logistics, monitoring, agriculture and surveying. The company combines aircraft, remote...
Facts
- Segment
- AERIAL
- Country
- JP
- Headquarters
- Tokyo, Tokyo
- Founded
- 2022
- Website
- https://kddi.smartdrone.co.jp/
About KDDI Smart Drone
KDDI Smart Drone combines aircraft, mobile connectivity and remote operating infrastructure into managed drone services. Its remote-operation platform connects drones and automated ports over 4G LTE, with Wi-Fi or satellite links available as communications backup. Operators can plan flights, monitor aircraft, control ports and receive collected data without stationing a pilot permanently at each site.
The company selects aircraft from multiple manufacturers and supports inspection, surveying, disaster response, security, agriculture and logistics programmes. Its operating service can include fleet ownership, maintenance, regulatory preparation, flight execution and round-the-clock monitoring, allowing a customer to purchase an outcome without building an internal drone department. KDDI Smart Drone reports more than 10,000 flights and over 300 deployment projects, including longer-distance and beyond-visual-line-of-sight workflows that depend on connected command and automated charging.
Market context
DEPLOYMENT
Summary
Type: Drone operator
Core: Remote operations
Function: Connected flight
Audience: Industrial operators