Telefónica skipped selling drones and is selling drone missions instead. T_Space is the first end-to-end Drone-as-a-Service run entirely by a telco — the carrier owns the fleet, the 5G uplink, the MEC edge nodes, and the AI vision stack. You file a job, they fly it.
The hardware
This isn’t a SaaS dashboard with a drone bolted on. T_Space is an actual fleet of inspection-grade drones with on-board AI perception — object detection, anomaly spotting, automated waypointing — streaming video over 5G to multi-access edge compute that runs the heavy inference in milliseconds. Launch use cases: power-grid and pipeline inspection, factory perimeter monitoring, warehouse cycle counting, critical infrastructure surveillance. MODEX 2026 just made warehouse DaaS one of its headline themes, and T_Space landed on that wave.
The API for AI agents
T_Space exposes a REST API to B2B customers. An agent can schedule a flight, pull the AI video-analytics output (detections, alerts, anomaly scores), and tap the live MEC inference stream. So an autonomous agent runs the whole loop: trigger an inspection on a schedule or sensor event, parse results, open a maintenance ticket. No pilots, no separate vision vendor, no glue code between three platforms.
The bigger move: 5GWorldPro’s April 21 blueprint called T_Space the template for telcos rebuilding B2B around vertical AI services — selling outcomes instead of bandwidth.
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