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Sony Mobile, ZMP tie up on drone business

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By Keiko Nagaba, Nikkei Robotics

Sony Mobile Communications Inc and ZMP Inc have announced that they will cooperate in the development and provision of industrial business solutions combining drone-based imaging and cloud-based image data processing.

ZMP is a venture firm specialized in robots. In early August, they will form Aerosense Inc, a joint venture to be owned 50.005 percent by Sony Mobile Communications and 49.995 percent by ZMP.

Aerosense will develop business solutions for measurement, examination, management and inspection based on Sony's technologies in the fields of cameras, sensing, communication networks and robots, and ZMP's technologies related to autonomous driving, robots and business experience in the industrial field. It will start services for corporate customers in 2016.

Sony Mobile Communications will engage in the project as a new business targeted at the IoT (Internet of Things) market. ZMP, which has been running its business "on land" by using, for example, its autonomous driving technology, will expand the business to the sky.

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