Qualcomm Technologies unveiled the world’s first AI- and 5G-enabled drone last week, the Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform, whose far-reaching capabilities include transforming the way we view sports. Drones are permeating several areas of the industry, most notably in broadcasting but also with designs on aiding tactics, sanitation, security and maybe even officiating.
Qualcomm technology has powered NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars as well as the Drone Racing League’s first 5G drone, which operated on T-Mobile’s network and flew over Iowa cornfields in conjunction with Major League Baseball’s Field of Dreams game last week.
Qualcomm’s GM of autonomous robotics, drones and intelligent machines, Dev Singh, recently spoke with SportTechie about the current and future use cases of drones in sports.
“AI is everywhere now: Everybody talks about AI, and AI is touching everybody's life,” Singh says. “But we firmly believe that the combination of AI and 5G is the bigger value. This whole capability of making power-efficient AI on the device—rather than on the cloud—is very important.”
The real benefit is the distributed intelligence platform, he adds. “Now you have a very smart drone that has kickass AI on the drone itself, but then you have 5G connectivity to the cloud for real-time inferencing with low latency when it comes to making a decision right in the moment—to follow a person or a follow a car for a photography use case or other other coverage use case. The drone is able to make its own decision because it has local AI, but at the same time, it has this 5G connectivity to the cloud, which gives it real time, more compute capability or intelligence.”
Continue reading: https://www.sporttechie.com/qualcomms-5g-ai-drones-are-changing-how-we-view-sports
Qualcomm technology has powered NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars as well as the Drone Racing League’s first 5G drone, which operated on T-Mobile’s network and flew over Iowa cornfields in conjunction with Major League Baseball’s Field of Dreams game last week.
Qualcomm’s GM of autonomous robotics, drones and intelligent machines, Dev Singh, recently spoke with SportTechie about the current and future use cases of drones in sports.
“AI is everywhere now: Everybody talks about AI, and AI is touching everybody's life,” Singh says. “But we firmly believe that the combination of AI and 5G is the bigger value. This whole capability of making power-efficient AI on the device—rather than on the cloud—is very important.”
The real benefit is the distributed intelligence platform, he adds. “Now you have a very smart drone that has kickass AI on the drone itself, but then you have 5G connectivity to the cloud for real-time inferencing with low latency when it comes to making a decision right in the moment—to follow a person or a follow a car for a photography use case or other other coverage use case. The drone is able to make its own decision because it has local AI, but at the same time, it has this 5G connectivity to the cloud, which gives it real time, more compute capability or intelligence.”
Continue reading: https://www.sporttechie.com/qualcomms-5g-ai-drones-are-changing-how-we-view-sports
