Register now for the Ultrahack Drone Tournament: a competition designed to boost the utilization of drone technology, supported for the first time by 5G networks and satellite technology! The Ultrahack Drone Tournament finals will coincide with the Assembly Summer ’21 Fall Edition event in beautiful Helsinki, Finland. (Check out the Drone Tournament’s official page.)
Teams will come together to solve essential challenges for drone utilization, using wide spectrum of navigation and sensor technologies. “These challenges are especially related to equipment landing and precision flight in various demanding and changing environments,” says the contest announcement.
Stara, the establishment of the city of Helsinki, offers a challenge for the competitors to solve, where the aim is to execute an urgent delivery in a simulated manner, by using Stara’s own system and subcontracting chain. The challenge includes all the steps between ordering and successfully delivering a product by drone to a construction site in an urban environment.
Stara offers everything that belongs to a well-functioning city. In the Last Mile Logistics-challenge, the city is looking for a demonstration of a working model to delivery a critical component to a building site on-demand. “In the best case scenario, a solution like this could be utilized even broader in the service production for the city of Helsinki,” says the announcement.
“Stara wishes to serve as a development platform for corporate service development, as we seek solutions for the everyday needs of our production,” states Sami Aherva, Head of Logistics at Stara.
In the other series of the tournament, competitors will perform navigating- and landing tasks that require precision. “These take place at a challenging performance site that will be built in connection with the final event at Messukeskus in Helsinki, utilizing satellite technology,” says the announcement. “5G technology, on the other hand, will be used to enable navigation and to allow video footage to be conveyed in the challenge, where fast-paced flight missions are performanced without direct line of sight to the drone.”
“We have been involved in researching the development of safe drone transport in Finland for two years. This competition offers an excellent showcase for what drones are in fact capable of today” says Arttu Rantala, Development Manager at Telia.
Rantala is particularly excited about utilizing the 5G network in the use of drones. “This is a great place to test out short delay utilization in a very demanding environment. I believe we will be able to take a big step towards safe and secure drone transport in October,” Rantala says.
U-blox, Spirent and Septentrio all offer satellite technology for the participants in the event. The winners will receive monetary prizes and the possibility of negotiating commercial agreements for further development of the solutions.
Additional information:
Ultrahack: Juhani Kivikangas +358405561228 , juhani.kivikangas@ultrahack.org , www.ultrahack.org Telia: Communications 02040 54000 , communications-fi@telia.fi
Robots.expert: Tero Vuorenmaa +358 40 576 2230, tero.vuorenmaa@robots.expert, https://www.robots.expert/
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