ZenaTech’s ZenaDrone Initiates Mobile Drone Operations Trailer to Boost Productivity and Scale Drone as a Service
Key Highlights
- ➤ZenaTech (ZENA) began building a mobile agricultural drone operations trailer.
- ➤Trailer supports automated multi-drone spraying, seeding, battery recharging, and takeoff and landing.
- ➤Trailer is designed to support swarms of up to five aircraft.
- ➤IQ Octo remains at the prototype testing stage with 20-to-25-minute flights.
- ➤Testing is expected to begin in the coming months at Mesa, Arizona.
Expert Statements
Shaun Passley, Ph.D., CEO of ZenaTech
“Our customers want more acres covered, jobs completed faster, and lower service costs. Developing a mobile operations trailer to support multiple drones, with spraying, seeding, and spreading capabilities and automated battery recharging, is aimed squarely at those needs.”
Shaun Passley, Ph.D., CEO of ZenaTech
“We are starting development and testing in precision agriculture, with the goal of extending this approach across our Drone as a Service applications. For ZenaTech’s DaaS business, the opportunity is to serve more customers with each crew and drone fleet, supporting stronger margins and a more scalable service business.”
Trailer is designed to support automated multi-drone spraying and seeding, with automated battery recharging, launch and landing platform, with future adaptations planned for surveying and inspections
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ZenaTech, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZENA) (FSE: 49Q) (BMV: ZENA) (“ZenaTech”), a technology solution provider specializing in AI (Artificial Intelligence) drone, Drone as a Service (DaaS), enterprise SaaS, and Quantum Computing solutions, announces that its ZenaDrone subsidiary has begun building a mobile agricultural drone operations trailer and will begin testing it in the coming months. The trailer is designed to transport and automate precision agriculture Drone as a Service jobs including for drone swarm operations. It is being configured to work with the IQ Octo drone, to complete jobs with minimal human intervention, improving speed and job capacity, and will be adapted to work with other DaaS applications such as surveys and inspection jobs in the future. The IQ Octo is ZenaDrone's medium-sized, eight-motor autonomous drone currently at the prototype testing stage, built for precision spraying and seeding. Battery powered, it is designed for roughly 20 to 25 minutes of flight per charge and a payload of up to 25 kilograms of liquid or seed, applying fertilizers, crop-protection products, and seed along programmed flight paths.
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