All Foundries

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Commodity Management & Trading

Transforming trading ecosystems through data-driven insights and secure, agile platforms that empower global commerce.

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Customer & Marketing Strategy

Reimagining customer engagement with personalized, connected experiences that build trust and long-term value.

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Digital Engineering

Turning ideas into scalable digital solutions—accelerating transformation through design, technology, and engineering excellence.

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Station Studio

Redefining mobility hubs with digital innovation to create smarter, sustainable experiences for people and businesses on the move.

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Supply Chain & Industry 5.0

Building resilient, intelligent supply networks that anticipate change and deliver efficiency with purpose.

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Sustainability

Driving responsible innovation to help organizations achieve net-zero goals and create a positive impact for future generations.

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Physical AI

Physical AI gives machines, robots and physical operations the ability to perceive their environment, decide what matters and act in real time. Factories, plants, stores and infrastructure become systems able to sense conditions, learn from them and improve on their own, closing the gap between the physical and the digital world.

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Next-Gen Infrastructure

From networks as infrastructure to connected platforms that enable critical, autonomous and intelligent operations.

Robotics Cloud Platform

Manufacturers often run robots from several providers, and every brand demands its own specialist skills. NTT DATA built the Robotics Cloud Platform, an agnostic control layer for robotic arms independent of proprietary systems. ROS and a digital twin simulate each movement, and AI adds new skills before a robot reaches the production line.

Robotics Cloud Platform

Multi-UAV system for autonomous inspection

Critical infrastructure and private areas need constant watching, and fixed surveillance leaves gaps across large sites. NTT DATA applied artificial intelligence to build a multi-UAV system for autonomous patrolling. Reinforcement learning optimizes every flight path, and computer vision designed for bad weather keeps inspection results reliable.

Multi-UAV system for autonomous inspection

Contact

Cooperative networked UAVs for 5G coverage extension

Fixed base stations decide where 5G reaches. Users at remote sites, at temporary events or on the move often fall outside their range. NTT DATA built a control platform for a fleet of drones acting as IAB (Integrated Access and Backhaul) nodes: a ground donor station supplies the signal, and the drones reposition on their own to keep users connected.

Coverage model: Mobile and on demand

Coverage goes to the place and the moment users need.

Drone role: IAB nodes

Each UAV carries radios and computing units to relay the 5G signal.

Positioning: Automatic

The platform watches network quality and moves drones to raise signal strength and throughput.

Optimization policies: Pluggable

Operators integrate different policies for drone positioning and control.

Cooperative Networked UAVs for 5G Coverage Extension

5G coverage beyond the reach of fixed infrastructure

Objectives

Extend a 5G network on demand with a coordinated drone fleet, and keep connectivity steady as users move.

Opportunity

The purchasing process held measurable gains in efficiency, control and traceability.

Coverage stops where the base station ends

A 5G network reaches as far as its fixed stations. When users leave the range, or when a site needs connectivity for a few days, the network has no way to follow them.

Key Challenges

1: Fixed range. Users who move beyond a base station lose coverage.

2: Remote and temporary sites. Locations far from infrastructure, or needed for a short time, have no 5G of their own.

3: Users on the move. Coverage has to shift as people change position during the day.

4: Fleet coordination. Several drones share the relay work and need to keep signal quality high together.

Solution

A control platform for a fleet of IAB drones

NTT DATA developed a platform to manage drone fleets as mobile IAB nodes within a 5G network, built with Python, ROS and Docker. A ground-based donor station provides the main signal, and the drones extend coverage dynamically as users move around.

Donor station and IAB nodes

A ground-based 5G donor station feeds the network, and each drone works as an IAB node with its own radio and computing unit.

Optimization policies

Operators plug their own optimization policies into the platform and stay in charge of where drones fly and how they behave.

Network quality monitoring

The platform tracks signal quality across every coverage area without pause.

Automatic repositioning

Drones move on their own to maximize signal strength and throughput for users in motion.

Impact

5G for the place and the moment

Operators extend 5G quickly beyond fixed infrastructure, and coverage adapts as the drones follow mobile users. The same setup serves industrial campuses, emergencies and temporary events. The platform also sets the base for AI-driven optimization and more autonomous network management, in line with NTT’s work on IOWN, a next-generation network designed for minimal latency.

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