DENVER, CO / ACCESSWIRE / March 18, 2015 / Valmie Resources Inc. (VMRI) today announced it is exploring a collaboration with a team from a major university's agricultural department and looking forward to having an exchange of resources and intellectual insight to maximize the value of Valmie's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology.

Valmie intends to work with a university's agricultural team to collaborate on the expanded development and deployment of its V-1 Drone along with its innovative AIMD (Autonomous Intelligence for Mobile Devices) Platform in conjunction with Valmie's vision of commercializing exciting, leading-edge products in the exploding technology sector.

"As we prepare to deploy our V-1 Drone and AIMD Platform in collaboration with Mexico-based Monitoreo Especializado Agrícola de Jalisco S.A. for its crop monitoring operations, we are excited about the field experience that will be available to the university's team outside of the restricted U.S. airspace," said Gerald B. Hammack, President and CEO of Valmie. "The university will provide a diverse array of resources and scholarly insight. Valmie will provide the university's team a learning environment in which drone technology can be incorporated to gather and analyze real world data in areas such as soil and crop science, plant pathology, environmental science and plant biology."

Valmie is in the final stages of developing its first-generation UAV prototype with a suite that will include its Software as a Service (SaaS) AIMD Platform. The AIMD Platform is Valmie's proprietary end-to-end solution designed to collect and send data from the unmanned vehicles' independent controller units back to a cloud-based modular resource network for aggregation and analysis. This platform, currently in development, will give drones and other unmanned vehicles an improved ability to communicate with remote hubs and other mobile devices. The AIMD Platform will have the capability to determine intervention thresholds, quickly route predetermined responses, communicate critical information to the operator, and in some cases deploy solutions in real time.

UAV technology, already in use throughout many areas of the world, helps growers' continued efforts to efficiently monitor their fields, mitigate crop stressors and manage crop development. Imaging from drones allows farmers to combine their crop data with advanced crop imaging, mapping and pinpointing the most advantageous times for treatments. This process, known as precision agriculture, can save the grower money from unnecessarily overusing resources while at the same time reducing the amount of runoff that could flow into nearby rivers and streams.