Drone start-up Meraque ready for regional expansion
MERAQUE Services Sdn Bhd (Meraque) will expand its foothold in the Southeast Asian market within the next five years.
The company said it has kickstarted a pilot inspections project that has been ongoing for the past few months for a telecommunications infrastructure company in the Philippines.
As part of the strategic partnership, Meraque has assembled a team to perform telecommunication site audits through unmanned aerial vehicle surveillance. Automated flight missions are being conducted around several key sites in South Luzon, including Mindanao, Visayas, Metro Manila and Palawan.
The company said automated reports using artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics would be generated and presented to the telecommunications company. The data would then be used to make informed business decisions. The pilot project will see Meraque surveilling over 3,100 telecommunication towers. The Meraque AI software is able to perform a completely autonomous data capture of towers at telecommunication sites besides providing a high-resolution inspection of the equipment and helping with future upgrade planning.
The technology enables telecommunication companies to monitor their towers, providing them with the ability to interact, inspect, simulate, forecast and improve performance remotely, without having personnel present at each tower site.
Meraque’s drones are able to fly over large and rough terrain to perform autonomous tasks, capture large amounts of data through their cameras and detect malfunctions.