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Nokia Unveils First CE-Certified 5G Automated

Drone-in-a-Box Solution for Secure, Reliable
Public Sector and Industrial Operations

Nokia has revealed it is the first to offer a CE-
certified, turnkey drone-in-a-box solution,
designed to meet the growing demands
of organizations including public safety
agencies, smart cities, construction, energy
and defense. CE-certified to meet safety
requirements of the European Union, the
Nokia Drone Networks solution connects
over public and private 4G/LTE and 5G
networks to enhance situational awareness
for first responders and other professionals.
The solution is manufactured in Europe
and comprises Nokia drones, docking
station, dual gimbal camera and edge
cloud processing using Nokia MX Industrial
Edge (MXIE). By connecting over public and
private 4G/LTE and 5G networks, customers
will benefit from the highest reliability. camera, from external hazards and harsh and rescue, surveillance, and other UAV
Using cellular connectivity technologies weather while it remotely charges the operations in a wide variety of industries.
also offers higher data rates and lower drone to prepare for the next flight. When Nokia Drone Networks has been designed
latency enabling more data to be streamed used in conjunction with Nokia MXIE, data to comply with the remote operation
than over Wi-Fi. Beyond visual line of sight from Nokia drones can be collected and requirements of aviation regulatory bodies
(BVLOS) operations with real-time kinetic processed in real time at the edge cloud. An such as EASA in Europe and FAA in the
(RTK) positioning improves situational open API framework allows agencies and United States. This will help us address
awareness. Dual modem connectivity enterprises to onboard pre-integrated Nokia growing market demands as a turnkey
allows Nokia drones to simultaneously and third-party applications and systems provider with a solution designed and
connect to multiple networks, complying and take advantage of a growing number produced in Europe. The unique feature set
with system redundancy that is commonly of compelling public safety and Industry enabling the integration of Nokia drones
required by aviation regulatory bodies. 4.0 use cases for drone automation, with third-party applications will aid the
The Nokia Drone Networks solution including object identification, tracking transformation of the drones, allowing
can be operated remotely for search and network measurements. Nokia and them to be used as a flying data collection
and rescue activities, and to assess the New York Power Authority have already platform leveraging reliable 4G and 5G
damage in a hazardous environment. demonstrated the use of the Nokia Drone edge cloud connectivity.” Depending on
Nokia drones can also be programmed to Networks solution, connected over private the deployed configuration, Nokia drones
manage autonomous scheduled flights LTE, for transmission line inspection. offer more than 50 minutes of flight time
for applications like additional security at Thomas Eder, Head of Embedded Wireless and cover distances of more than 30 km
large events or to manage regular remote Solutions at Nokia, said: “Our mission is due to the unique hardware architecture,
equipment inspections. The docking to reshape the industrial UAV (unmanned integrated software innovations and the
station protects the drone and payload, aerial vehicle) market, providing enhanced 4G/5G connectivity.
such as the sensor devices or dual gimbal situational awareness to aid search

Nokia Threat Intelligence Report Finds Malicious IoT Botnet Activity Has

Sharply Increased

The latest Nokia Threat Intelligence Report following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia-Ukraine conflict but has since spread
released has found that IoT botnet DDoS stemming from the growing increase in to other parts of the world, with botnet-
(Distributed Denial of Service) traffic, profit-driven hacking collectives operated driven DDoS attacks being used to disrupt
originating from a large number of insecure by cybercriminals. This sharp increase, also telecom networks as well as other critical
IoT devices with the aim of disrupting supplemented by the increased use of IoT infrastructure and services. The number of
telecom network services for millions of devices by consumers around the world, IoT devices (bots) engaged in botnet-driven
users, increased fivefold over the past year, was first noticed at the beginning of the DDoS attacks rose from around 200,000 a

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