Beginning with a pilot inspections project for a telco infrastructure business in the Philippines that covered 3,100 towers, Meraque Services has begun to grow throughout Southeast Asia.
The company claims to have a team that uses unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) surveillance to conduct site audits. Automated flight missions have been carried within the previous few weeks in and around a number of important locations throughout numerous provinces in South Luzon, the Philippines, including Mindanao, Visayas, Metro Manila, and Palawan.
High-resolution equipment inspection and assistance with future upgrade planning are both possible with the Meraque AI software’s ability to do an entirely autonomous data capture of towers.
Without having staff on-site at each tower site, the data enables telecommunications businesses to monitor towers, inspect, simulate, forecast, and optimise performance remotely.
Meraque observes that more telco firms are considering drone-powered solutions to keep an eye on their infrastructure. Drones are a quick fix because the majority of sites are either rural or have difficult terrain, such as being on hills surrounded by trees or being on buildings.
The inspection system from Meraque does not compromise tower performance, result in service interruptions, or endanger the lives of maintenance personnel who must scale high platforms.
“As we close 2022 and look back on the year, we have surely attained fantastic results with our global expansion and increasing our technology capabilities,” stated Md. Razalee Ismail, CEO of Meraque. Markets in the Middle East, Africa, and now Southeast Asia have all been added to Meraque’s expansion.
In 2023, there are already plans to expand to Indonesia and Cambodia, and agreements will soon be announced. Meraque claims it wants to conduct inspections on more than 20,000 telecom towers in Southeast Asia, India, and Nepal within the next five years. The company is also in talks to buy or create joint ventures with several Philippine businesses.
Meraque’s solutions range now includes telecom infrastructure inspection in addition to its previous specialties of hybrid drones for agriculture, business software and hardware solutions for palm plantation management, and commercial drone deliveries.
It also developed the Robotic Agro in Complex Environment (RACE), its first autonomous ground vehicle (AGV), to lessen the dependency on human labour and increase the consistency of fertiliser application in oil palm farms.
