Middle East: “Skyports Collaborates with IOT Squared Services For Saudi Arabian Giga-Projects”

Sky­ports Drone Ser­vices is mak­ing its first entry into the Sau­di Ara­bi­an mar­ket via a col­lab­o­ra­tion with iot squared, a joint ven­ture between Sau­di Arabia’s Pub­lic Invest­ment Fund (PIF) and Nation­al Tele­com Group, reports a press release.

The part­ner­ship is to lever­age Sky­ports’ expe­ri­ence in Beyond Visu­al Line of Sight (BVLOS) oper­a­tions “for a proof-of-con­cept explor­ing the inte­gra­tion of drone tech­nol­o­gy into Sau­di Arabia’s large-scale infra­struc­ture and real estate devel­op­ments, known as giga-projects,” explains the release. 

Addi­tion­al­ly, Sky­ports is to help estab­lish a BVLOS-friend­ly ecosys­tem “to accel­er­ate the expan­sion of drone oper­a­tions across the coun­try. This includes devel­op­ing iot-squared’s remote com­mand and con­trol cen­tre,” con­tin­ues the release.

Daniel O’Neill, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er, Mid­dle East at Sky­ports, com­ment­ed, “With its strong focus on inno­v­a­tive infra­struc­ture and mobil­i­ty, Sau­di Ara­bia has long been a key tar­get mar­ket for us. The efforts of the Gen­er­al Author­i­ty of Civ­il Avi­a­tion (GACA) and the Min­istry of Trans­port and Logis­tics Ser­vices (MOT) have fos­tered a pro­gres­sive reg­u­la­to­ry envi­ron­ment that has been instru­men­tal in unlock­ing the drone oper­a­tions for the coun­try.” 

He con­tin­ued, “We’re excit­ed to work along­side iot squared and bring our exper­tise in inter-island drone deliv­ery to Sau­di Ara­bia, demon­strat­ing how drone tech­nol­o­gy can enhance effi­cien­cy and con­nec­tiv­i­ty for world-renowned giga-projects.”

(Image cred­it: Sky­ports)

The ini­tia­tive aims to set the foun­da­tion for wide­spread adop­tion of drone tech­nol­o­gy across Sau­di Arabia’s giga-projects. As the project pro­gress­es, the part­ners will explore fur­ther Sau­di Ara­bi­an oper­a­tions.

Oth­man Alda­hash, CEO of iot squared, remarked, “Our col­lab­o­ra­tion with Sky­ports rein­forces us as a key play­er in drone-enabled solu­tions. By focus­ing on com­plex oper­a­tions in remote and off­shore loca­tions, we’re address­ing crit­i­cal mis­sions that demand high pre­ci­sion and where tra­di­tion­al meth­ods are often expen­sive or inef­fi­cient.”

Sky­ports has pre­vi­ous­ly part­nered with major organ­i­sa­tions such as Roy­al Mail, Equinor and the Mar­itime and Port Author­i­ty of Sin­ga­pore. This expe­ri­ence posi­tions the com­pa­ny as a key enabler in advanc­ing Sau­di Arabia’s smart infra­struc­ture and mobil­i­ty solu­tions through the imple­men­ta­tion of on-demand, auto­mat­ed car­go deliv­er­ies.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.skyportsdroneservices.com

https://iotsquared.com.sa/

(Top image: Oth­man Alda­hash, iot squared CEO and Daniel O’Neill, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er, Mid­dle East, at the LEAP 2025 Con­fer­ence — Cred­it: Sky­ports)

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