Skills to soar

Flying high: Narendran (second from right) working on a drone with his students.

THE Malaysian drone tech market is projected to contribute RM50bil to the country’s gross domestic product and create 100,000 job opportunities by 2030, according to the Malaysian Research Accelerator for Technology and Innovation (MRANTI).

Leading the Centre of Research and Development of IoT (CREDIT) at Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU), Narendran Ramasenderan, senior lecturer at the School of Engineering, foresees software and hardware integration to be the most sought-after skillset in the country’s drone tech industry.