Drone Delivery, Bell collaborating on 5G edge computing initiatives for drones

TORONTO — Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) announced today it has signed a three-year collaboration agreement with Bell Mobility Inc. to develop products and services and improve technology as it relates to 5G and multi-access edge computing (MEC) for autonomous drone performance. This follows Bell’s launch yesterday of public MEC, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) Wavelength, for its business customers. “The collaboration is expected to lead to new solutions that will be revenue generating for DDC and will focus on the development of technologies that will evaluate, in a controlled environment, new capabilities to support Beyond Visual Line of Sight...