Bellevue-based T-Mobile and the New York City-based Drone Racing League (DRL) today announced a partnership to advance 5G-powered drone technology.
The multi-year deal includes an investment in DRL through the T-Mobile Ventures fund. This move makes T-Mobile the league’s exclusive U.S. 5G wireless partner, according to a joint news release.
T-Mobile and DRL will innovate 5G racing drone technology to create the first integrated 5G racing drones, with the aim of building them into the sport. DRL’s high-speed 5G racing drones, running on the carrier’s 5G network, will enable the companies to stream DRL’s 3D racing action to fans in real time. The 5G racing drones also will open up opportunities for new applications across a wide variety of industries, the release said.
“We invested in DRL to fuel innovation in two large and growing markets — drones and tech-powered sports — and we can’t wait to supercharge both with T-Mobile 5G,” Neville Ray, president of technology at T-Mobile, said in the release.
DRL features the world’s top pilots flying custom racing drones through live and virtual locations around the globe to create a new playing field of high-speed racing with e-sports. In live events, pilots race standardized first-person view (FPV) drones at nearly 100 mph, wearing goggles that stream a live video feed from a camera on their drone, as they navigate complex, three-dimensional courses. Millions of next-generation sports fans watch DRL on premier sports networks globally, including NBC, NBCSN, Twitter, and Facebook, the release said.
DRL said it has launched four iterations of racing drones, a record-setting fastest-racing drone, and the first autonomous racing drone — all designed and hand-built with proprietary technology by its in-house team of drone engineers. Adding T-Mobile 5G will offer new opportunities to drive fan engagement, the release said. It added that DRL fans are 14 times more likely than the U.S. population to be considered “tech-savvy” and four times more likely to be interested in gaming.
T-Mobile Ventures, which invested in DRL, is a multi-year investment fund focused on early and emerging growth companies developing groundbreaking 5G products and services for the T-Mobile network. DRL will benefit from T-Mobile’s network and engineering expertise, go-to-market infrastructure, and investment backing as the companies work together to develop the next big thing in 5G racing drones and sports technology, the release said.
As part of the partnership, DRL will feature T-Mobile in the 2021 DRL Allianz World Championship Season through advertising spots and branded course elements in the DRL SIM, the virtual platform hosting the elite competition. T-Mobile also will support the DRL Academy, the league’s STEM program, creating educational programming around 5G and drones to inspire the next generation of technologists and digital athletes, the release added.
In a separate blog post today, John Saw, T-Mobile’s executive vice president of advanced and emerging technologies, said reimagining sports entertainment is just one example of 5G’s impact.
“From being the engine behind a new self-service economy, to industrial IoT, security monitoring, emergency response, and so much more, autonomous 5G drones will dramatically transform industry and commerce,” Saw wrote.
T-Mobile has worked on drone development since 2015, integrating drones with the network to enable operations such as delivery services and infrastructure inspection, he said. The company aims to help safely integrate small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the national air space and fuel innovation, and bring new services and capabilities to businesses and consumers, he added.
“With T-Mobile 5G we are working to unlock advanced drone operations such as flight that goes well beyond line of sight,” he said.
The company has made progress developing drones for emergency response, “basically putting mini cell sites on drones,” Saw wrote. “… We see tremendous opportunity to enable both line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight connectivity using 5G drones in the future for search-and-rescue operations, as well to fly in temporary cellular connectivity.”
One company, Unmanned Life, which recently graduated from the T-Mobile Accelerator, is developing autonomous drones to disinfect public places in the UK to help fight COVID-19 and also will deploy autonomous UAVs in the Oxford region to deliver medical supplies from pharmacies to COVID patients at home, Saw said.
In the retail space, on-demand drone and robotic delivery will greatly advance contactless shopping, he said, noting drones’ many uses, including industrial IoT applications.
Autonomous drone swarms will unlock industrial IoT applications across numerous vertical industries, Saw wrote. He noted that coordinating the swarms in the sky and on the ground will require artificial intelligence and machine learning for the systems to work together, and cloud or edge computing to provide communication latency.
“With each device in a swarm having its own cameras and sensors feeding data into the system, this kind of complexity will rely on the type of high-bandwidth, low-latency 5G network that T-Mobile is building,” he said.
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