From the left, Seino HD Executive Officer Hideharu Kawai, Mayor of Kosuge Naomi Funaki, and Aeronext CEO Keisuke Taji (photographed on October 30)
Seino Holdings Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Ogaki City, Gifu Prefecture, President: Yoshitaka Taguchi, hereafter Seino HD) and Aeronext Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Keisuke Taji, hereafter Aeronext) Started shopping and delivery agency services (SkyHub® Delivery) including drone delivery.
Seino HD x Aeronext
Seino HD and Aeronext are two services in Kosuge Village, Yamanashi Prefecture, which are promoting the social implementation of new smart logistics SkyHub including drone delivery. The delivery agency service (SkyHub Delivery) started in earnest from November 1st. Seino HD and Aeronext signed a business alliance in January this year to commercialize a new smart logistics that realizes uninventory and unmanned operations, and by standardizing the connection between existing logistics and drone logistics, it will be open and public. Jointly build a service model for new platform (OPP) type smart logistics. Revitalization of the entire region by providing various solutions that contribute to solving social issues in the region and promote the improvement of the quality of the community, such as population decline, traffic problems in specific depopulated areas, medical problems, disaster countermeasures, and countermeasures for the vulnerable to logistics. We have been working together with the aim of achieving this.
Products from stores and convenience stores arrive quickly
Specifically, in November last year, Aeronext started a project in Kosuge Village, Yamanashi Prefecture, where a cooperation agreement was signed for regional revitalization by introducing a drone delivery service and social implementation of new smart logistics, and drone in April. The company has started trial operation of delivery and shopping agency services, and has been conducting verification and verification to establish a service model while interacting with residents. Drone delivery started from Drone Depot® installed in the Hashidate area, and initially opened one route to the drone stand in the Kawaike area, which is about 600 m away, and started two flights a day, three days a week. Currently, there are 5 routes in 4 districts out of 8 districts in the village, and one of them is the rooftop of an inn, which realizes drone delivery that is unprecedented in Japan. As of October 30, the drone delivery has reached 190 times and the shopping agency service has reached 375 times, and after the verification period of about half a year, the service will be charged and scheduled from November 1st. It seems that it became. The outline of the two services that will start in earnest is as follows. ◆ On-demand delivery service Specialized convenience store (SkyHub Store) An on-demand delivery service that allows you to order groceries and daily necessities up to 30 minutes in advance from the SkyHub app. It is also an effort to make Drone Depot®︎, which is a drone delivery base, into a dark store. It is an on-demand service that delivers by the most suitable means from the air or land according to the needs. In Kosuge Village, customers select products from 300 items of groceries and daily necessities, select the desired delivery time frame and the delivery destination drone stand ®︎ from the 16-slot delivery frame set at 30-minute intervals, and place an order. The shipping fee is 300 yen. It is basically delivered by drone, but if drone is difficult due to weather conditions, it will be delivered by land by car. ◆ Shopping agency / delivery agency service in collaboration with local shops (SkyHub Delivery) Shopping agency / delivery agency that delivers products such as local shops and supermarkets and restaurants that you shopped with the SkyHub® app to your private home at the desired date and time. service. It is also an initiative to support the conversion of local stores to DX, and is an online supermarket and food delivery service developed in a mall EC type. In Kosuge Village, we select products from about 1,000 grocery items and daily necessities of local supermarkets in the neighboring area, and select the desired time frame from the time frame set at 2-hour intervals to place an order. The shipping fee is 300 yen. For the time being, orders by noon will be delivered by the end of the day. In Kosuge Village, as part of the social implementation of the new smart logistics SkyHub, various efforts have been implemented, such as the trial start of mixed cargo and passenger loading and joint delivery with the cooperation of bus companies and logistics companies. There is.
Expand to 820 depopulated areas
The movement to deploy the new smart logistics SkyHub® model, which will be fully launched in Kosuge Village, to about 820 depopulated areas all over Japan is accelerating, and as the first step of nationwide expansion, a comprehensive cooperation agreement was signed in August this year. In Kamishihoro-cho, Hokkaido, which was signed, multiple demonstration experiments including Japan's first drone home delivery were conducted in October in anticipation of social implementation of SkyHub®. With a population of about 5,000, there are many stores in the area, and there are many ranches, so a spacious private house is ideal for takeoff and landing. It is said that concrete activities will be started in Kamishihoro Town in November. Seino HD and Aeronext will cooperate with each other to implement the new smart logistics SkyHub®︎ as a new social infrastructure in depopulated areas, thereby contributing to solving problems in depopulated areas and revitalizing the entire area. We hope that it will be a stepping stone to the further spread of drone delivery, which is expected in the last one mile of EC.