The resumed its drone delivery operation in Sergipe, in partnership with the engineering company Speedbird Aero. The Rota, from Shopping Center Riomar to Barra dos Coqueiros, in Aracajú, will now be expanded that the National Civil Aviation Agency (Anac) has granted permanent authorization to safe flights on areas with circulation of people.
Started in 2021 as a pilot project, the route was the first to receive a type release in South America.
Today, the route flew a stretch of less than a minute over a pedestrian circulation area in a line of less than four kilometers, where a delivery man takes the delivery and makes the last mile to the consumer in a maximum of 30 minutes. By land, this route would take about an hour by 36 kilometers added to round trip.
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“IFOOD is multimodal: it combines bicycles, motorcycles, cars, boats, robots and now also drones to connect a complex delivery ecosystem. The drone enters to resolve excerpts that would not make sense to the delivery man, who is still allocated to more productive routes,” Rodolfo Klautau, IFOOD logistics director.
At this stage of the operation, the capacity is 280 orders per day with seven days, ten hours a day.
In addition to the resumption of the route, the operation now has an aircraft capable of loading up to 5 pounds, against a previous limit of 3 pounds. The drone flies at 50mk/h at an altitude of up to 60 meters – the same as a 20 -story building – operated by a Speedbird Aero Control Center in Franca (SP). It supports winds of up to 55km/HE light rain, and is equipped with a parachute for falling cases.
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“The resumption and expansion of the project in Aracaju is a milestone not only for IFood and Speedbird, but for the entire air mobility sector in Brazil. This is the first permanent authorization of ANAC for flights on people with people circulation, a fundamental step towards the consolidation of drone deliveries in the country,” says Manoel Coelho, CEO of Speedbird Aero.
Speedbird Aero is the only company that has been approved by two Drone models by ANAC for the so -called BVlo Operation, an acronym in English to “besides the operating line”, focused on cargo delivery in Brazil. Each process took 12 to 24 months to process at ANAC and the department of. Airspace Control (DECEA).
