Quantum South Releases Air Cargo Optimization Application

Quantum South, a software development company based in Uruguay, has announced the release of software to optimize logistics and arrangement of air cargo for transport. The software utilizes the power of quantum computing to handle multiple variable optimization problems, as loading companies must take into account load shape, weight, and center of gravity as well as important plane and flight characteristics such as shear and fuselage shape.

The development of this software came about as a submission to the Airbus Quantum Computing Challenge in 2019, during which Quantum South was selected as one of the global finalists in the competition. Airbus had identified this as one of the biggest challenges in the aerospace industry, as maximizing the packing of merchandise into planes is governed by a significant number of factors in order to guarantee safety and reliability of transport.

Quantum South is seeking air cargo companies to work with to use either a parallel system or historical data to compare with their current results. The software currently runs on the D-Wave annealer, but has been tested on IBM, IonQ, and Quantum Brilliance gate computers as well through direct access via Amazon Braket or Microsoft Azure. To read more about the software and find more information about Quantum South, find a news release from them here and a more detailed blog posting about the software here.

February 12, 2022