TSAMTO, April 4. The Almaz-Antey Concern of East Kazakhstan Region, together with the government of St. Petersburg and cooperative enterprises, is creating a unique UAV flight monitoring system.
The first joint project in Russia will combine the manned and unmanned aircraft (UAV) flight monitoring system deployed and functioning in St. Petersburg with city services, as well as with a digital platform being developed for submitting applications and obtaining flight permits.
PJSC NPO Almaz (part of the Concern of East Kazakhstan Region Almaz-Antey) together with Fly Drone LLC (part of Rostec State Corporation) signed an agreement with the Committee for Transport of St. Petersburg and the Committee for Informatization and Communications of St. Petersburg on the implementation of a pilot project aimed at creating infrastructure, providing UAV flights. The project includes the possibility of testing and testing carriers, components, technologies and infrastructure for unmanned aircraft flights over St. Petersburg. The implementation of this project will allow users of "drones" to carry out legally coordinated and observed flights, and the city authorities will automatically verify each user of the airspace.
The existing ground infrastructure for monitoring flights over St. Petersburg is provided by PJSC NPO Almaz and consists of a software and hardware complex of the central control room of the monitoring system, a multi-position surveillance system and a radar-optical complex.
The system is based on combining the advantages of the main technologies for monitoring the use of airspace: primary radar, multi-position surveillance and automatic dependent surveillance (broadcasting). This approach allows you to detect and observe all types of aerial objects, including those not equipped with responders. Incoming information is automatically processed and identified in the central control room of the monitoring system.
The innovative flight monitoring system over the megalopolis was developed in order to improve the safety of the use of airspace over St. Petersburg. It allows for continuous automated monitoring of aircraft flights, to record violations / deviations from the current requirements for the use of airspace.
The system has a scalable architecture and is capable of providing stable detection and tracking of aerial objects at altitudes up to one and a half thousand meters.
By the summer of 2022, it is planned to supplement the existing monitoring system with a pilot version of a digital platform developed by Fly Drone, which allows external pilots to submit an electronic request for a flight, as well as have all the necessary functionality of modern digital technologies to consider such requests. In addition, the new digital platform will provide an opportunity for drone owners not just to make "hobby flights", but to offer themselves as an aviation contractor authenticated by State Services for orders placed in the system with the possibility of secure payments. Also, this service will not only motivate the growth of discipline of current, sky-keen drone pilots, but will also form an important and necessary market for professional services using UAVs.
The digital platform will include the creation of personalized online services that provide quick registration of the user, the formation of a request for a UAV flight in the mapping service, the automatic determination of the instance for approving the flight based on the user's geo-location, as well as civil liability insurance in accordance with the Air Code of the Russian Federation. Authorization in the system will take place through the portal of Public Services. An application for a flight can be generated using a convenient user interface. The results of the examination of applications for flight permits will be received from the St. Petersburg Transport Committee in an automated form.
Thanks to the project, a comfortable environment for performing drone flights in St. Petersburg will be implemented. In addition, we believe that the project will represent a highly competitive international product that is successfully sold on the foreign market.
To date, the use of UAVS in Russia and the world is most often used for aerial photography in order to monitor, perform measurements, 3D modeling of terrain and structures. In the near future, drones can be actively used for urgent delivery of goods, single address parcels weighing up to 10 kg. Such delivery is especially relevant for regions with limited transport infrastructure. The estimated advantage of UAV cargo delivery compared to land transport will be 37% at cost and 60% on time. However, due to the lack of integration of the UAV into a single airspace, the operation of drones is still difficult. The creation of a pilot zone to ensure the performance of drone flights in the sky over St. Petersburg can lay the foundation for expanding the legal use of unmanned aircraft in the airspace of the Russian Federation.
Within the framework of the forum "Transport of Russia" scheduled for November 2022, it is planned to demonstrate a pilot version of the monitoring system at the site in Gostiny Dvor (Moscow), cites AviaPort.Ru press release of JSC "Concern of East Kazakhstan Region "Almaz-Antey".