Jio Platforms’ subsidiary Asteria Aerospace, a drone manufacturer and solution provider in India, has launched its drone operations platform SkyDeck.

SkyDeck is a cloud-based software platform to deliver a Drone-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution for various industry verticals such as agriculture, industrial inspections and surveillance and security, according to a company release.

SkyDeck provides services such as drone fleet management, scheduling and executing drone flights, data processing and visualisation and AI-based analysis of aerial data captured using drones.

Elaborating on the features of SkyDeck, the statement said the platform ensures operational transparency, improves collaboration between stakeholders and provides secure and centralised management for scaling drone programmes across multiple applications.

Neel Mehta, co-founder and director, Asteria Aerospace, said the recent liberalisation of regulations for drone operations and the promotion of DaaS by the government have increased the demand for drones across industry sectors.

“With the launch of SkyDeck, we are addressing the need of the hour with integrated drone hardware, software, and operations solution. SkyDeck simplifies the use of drones to generate aerial data and turns that digital data into business insights to power drone applications at scale,” Mehta added.