How Latrobe City Council Built Australia's First OEM-Agnostic Drone Command Centre

Name: How Latrobe City Council Built Australia's First OEM-Agnostic Drone Command Centre
Uploaded: 2026-10-02T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 31 min 5 s
Description: BVLOS programs rarely stay on one drone platform for long, but most command centers are built around a single OEM’s stack, making it hard to scale operations across a growing, mixed fleet. Councils and operators need infrastructure that works regardless of who makes the aircraft.

NestGen ’26
BVLOS
Utilities

October 2, 2026 · 31 min

BVLOS programs rarely stay on one drone platform for long, but most command centers are built around a single OEM’s stack, making it hard to scale operations across a growing, mixed fleet. Councils and operators need infrastructure that works regardless of who makes the aircraft. In this NestGen session, Latrobe City Council and Yarra Drones will share how they built Australia’s first OEM-agnostic drone command centre, and what BVLOS operators should think through when building infrastructure that can scale across multiple aircraft platforms.