Fractal & ideaForge to Soon Deliver AI-powered Drones

By siliconindia  |  Tuesday, 04 February 2020, 07:02:58 PM IST

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Fractal, an artificial intelligence and analytics company, ventures into a technology partnership with ideaForge, a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) manufacturing company. Both companies collaborate to produce artificial intelligence-based drone solutions that would assist in crowd monitoring, object and people detection, object tracking and triggering alerts for actions. Furthermore, the companies would showcase their solution at DEFEXPO 2020 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

"We are thrilled to partner with ideaForge to provide AI-enabled drone solutions. Drones are expanding the boundaries of what security, surveillance and enforcement teams can achieve and ideaForge is a market leader in drone technology. Fractal's Image and Video Analytics platform will bring deep learning Artificial Intelligence technology to analyze the drone feed and detect anomalies & threats in real-time without any human intervention and with greater efficiency and impact," says Sandeep Dutta, Chief Practice Officer - APAC, Fractal.

Fractal's image and video analytics solutions would help in analyzing real-time video feed from ideaForge drones and would produce insights in real-time and aid in making tactical and strategic decisions. This function could be utilized to detect, recognize and track objects & people. Also, these drone solutions could be used in crucial use cases such as anti-terror operations, counterinsurgency, crowd monitoring, border security, forest and wildlife conservation, traffic management and more.

 "Our drones provide critical on-ground situational awareness to our security forces that empower them to make informed decisions. Our high-resolution drone feed and Fractal's Image & video analytics solution to analyze the feed will be immensely useful in various surveillance scenarios, especially to defense and homeland security forces. We are delighted to be partnering with Fractal to offer AI-powered drone solutions -a first in real-time aerial surveillance," says Ankit Mehta, CEO, ideaForge.

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