LuxTurrim5G partner in spotlight
Rumble Tools was founded in 2016 and is based in Imatra, Finland. Rumble Tools aims to create a fully autonomous drone system comprising of custom drone with tailored payload and peripherals as well as a docking station that charges the drone and handles data collection and distribution. Rumble Tools has already deployed drone systems to multiple sites, ranging from industrial site surveillance to border control.
Tailor-made drone and docking station as a basis for drone services
Drones have become popular and commonplace in last few years, but in the professional field their utilization is still very low when compared to the limits of current drone technology and potential applications. This is natural as for autonomous operations safety concerns are paramount, however lack of unified international regulations also causes large amounts of work.
Rumble Tools is one of the forerunners in drone business, and sees a great commercial potential for drone services in the future. Drone sector and business will be one of the service fields that will grow the most in the world during the next decade.
In LuxTurrim5G ecosystem Rumble Tools’ target has been to develop a docking station to bring drones as an integral part of the LuxTurrim5G sensor and service environment as well as pilot smart city services utilizing drone. The company has just finalized the development of such “mini docking station” installed on top of a smart pole within the LuxTurrim5G Kera route pilot completed in May. From the docking station the drone can operate autonomically as part of the smart pole network making specific mission flights for example to monitor the area or collect weather or air quality data.
Drone docking station prior to installation.
Aiming towards commercial services
“We feel this station fits well into modern infrastructure development and allows sensors and monitoring to be where they’re most needed. The sky is not the limit anymore”, Tuomas Hallikas, project lead for LuxTurrim5G from Rumble Tools comments.
Next steps for the project will be pilots of commercial services, mainly in domains of public safety, air quality monitoring and security and surveillance.
Read more:
Rumble Tools docking station in Karaportti.