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Drones for Agriculture (formerly Poladrone)

Aonic (Formerly Poladrone)

Country:

Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia

Crops/Commodity Focus:

Rice, Vegetables, Maize

Category:

Drone Imaging, Farm Management

About

The agriculture industry often faces challenges such as a lack of transparency, inefficient management, and labor shortages. Drones in agriculture are helping to address these issues through aerial analytics and automation. First, drones are used to quickly map large plantation areas. Then, proprietary algorithms analyze crop health based on the captured data. Finally, autonomous spraying drones perform targeted spraying on affected areas. Plantation owners also receive a copy of the land map, which helps streamline management and operational planning.

Capabilities & Features

Poladrone's proprietary algorithms allow users to quickly and accurately derive valuable insights from captured images such as precise oil palm counts, crop categorization, health assessment, and identification of roads, infrastructure, and rivers. These algorithms streamline what has traditionally been a highly manual analytics process.

Poladrone also manufactures its own agricultural spraying drones locally in Malaysia, enabling the company to provide superior after-sales service and support to its customers.

Progress to Date

To date, Poladrone has mapped over 150,000 acres of plantations, won Echelon Asia 2017, and has been appointed as a dealer for DJI Enterprise and Sentera. Poladrone also has a partnership with Microsoft, co-developing AI solutions with their engineering team, as well as an R&D partnership with University Putra Malaysia which is Malaysia’s largest and only university dedicated to agriculture.

The team is currently building a spraying drone capable of performing targeted spraying on oil palm automatically.