Zoom will be employed with drone systems in projects being piloted in India

• ByStartupStory     |    October 20, 2022

According to a top executive, Zoom Video Communications wants to expand beyond just being a video conferencing network and develop into a platform for collaboration.

According to Sameer Raje, general manager and head of India & SAARC at Zoom Video, the company is testing out a few projects in India to see if drone systems are used there. Zoom Events has also been introduced by the company in India.

Raje stated, “We are introducing something for a customer where Zoom meetings are being used on a drone system to provide input for geographical mapping and geographical survey, as well as detecting missing persons. It’s a whole collaborative tale, then. A meeting application is not all that it is. Zoom is evolving in a number of formats as technology advances.

The use cases, he continued, have been “absolutely spectacular,” including using Zoom on drones to capture information for monitoring crops, industries, and pipelines as well as for geotagging land surveys and similar activities.

Raje said, “As of now, we are executing some of the pilots (and) are in the very early stages. However, law enforcement agencies and the police in the US use Zoom to capture live footage from various groups and send it back to the command centre. The upper management is then informed, and several people are watching the live video from the drone that is now in the field on a Zoom meeting.

In order to give command and management visibility into activities carried out by police, first responders, and other emergency workers, the Oceanside Police Department in California uses remote-controlled drone video that is shared over Zoom.

The Department may be able to save lives, carry out safer operations, and increase capabilities in the fields of public safety and search and rescue by using Zoom to speed up the way they process and communicate information.

“The ultimate human and machine workforce can be created through strategic collaboration technology. Public security departments can reduce risk to staff members while increasing visibility and situational awareness by integrating Zoom with drone footage, body cam technology, and other physically on-site components, according to information on Zoom’s website.

Due to Zoom’s clientele and the type of clientele the company has, Raje stated that India was definitely one of the most important markets for the company. This was one of the primary reasons the Nasdaq-listed company introduced Zoom Events in India.

The product, an all-in-one platform with the ability to deliver live events for internal or external audiences of virtually any size, combines the dependability and scalability of Zoom Webinars, Zoom Meetings, and Team Chat into one solution for event organisers.

It enables businesses across all sectors to smoothly host hybrid and digital experiences, including internal events like sales summits and all-hands meetings as well as external ones like consumer conferences.

More than 7,000 customers have used Zoom Events since its 2021 launch, and the platform is now used more than 150 times daily on average, according to the San Jose-based company.

Additionally, Zoom held Zoomtopia 2021 on Zoom Events, providing more than 30,000 digital attendees with the most recent in communications.

According to Roopam Jain, vice president of research, information, and communications technologies at Frost & Sullivan, “as enterprises in India embrace virtual and hybrid events as a core part of their communications and collaborations strategy, they can look to Zoom Events to create unique, interactive, and immersive virtual experiences.”

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