Rostec participates in the creation of a pilot zone for drone flights in St. Petersburg

Rostec participates in the creation of a pilot zone for drone flights in St. Petersburg

Fly Drone, a company in Rostec’s portfolio, is implementing a joint project with the government of St. Petersburg to create an urban air mobility pilot zone for testing drones. The infrastructure necessary for drone flights in the airspace of St. Petersburg is planned to be put in place by the summer of 2022.

The work will be carried out in partnership with the Research and Production Corporation Almaz. The corresponding agreement was signed with the Committee for Transport and the Committee for Informatization and Communications of St. Petersburg. According to the document, the parties will develop a special digital platform based on existing city services and a ground-based radar system. This will ensure safe flights of drones within the city and significantly simplify the procedure for their approval. In addition, the project will make it possible to form a database of verified airspace users.

In the future, the new digital platform will enable drone owners to offer themselves as contractors for orders placed in the system. Thus, the platform will create a market for professional drone-based services. In particular, drones can be used for aerial photography, various types of monitoring, urgent delivery of goods, as well as 3D modeling of the terrain and structures.

Fly Drone engineers will develop personalized online services for user registration, flight coordination, and liability insurance. Authorization in the system will be carried out through the Portal of Government Services. A drone owner will be able to file a flight plan application using a simplified interface and automatically receive permission from the transport committee to use the airspace. Application review is expected to take no more than one day. The integration of the developed platform into the system of digital city services of St. Petersburg is scheduled for May 2022.

“Our R&D products and competencies will help create a comfortable, safe, and absolutely legal environment for drone flights in St. Petersburg. The market for drone-based services is now emerging. Any company that manages to demonstrate the safety and availability of its technology will be in demand. We invite potential contractors and customers for such services to test them in the pilot zone. By working on this project, we are creating a highly competitive international product, which in the long run will allow our country to lead the global market,” the founders of Fly Drone say.

PJSC ALMAZ R&P Corp. will provide ground infrastructure, including the central control room of the monitoring system, a multilateration system, and a radar-optical complex for detecting low-observable low-altitude targets.

Rostec’s technology partner introduced “Uber” for drones

Fly Drone, a portfolio company of the RT-Business Development holding of Rostec State Corporation, which is a resident of the Skolkovo Innovation Fund, presented Uber for unmanned aerial vehicles at the UMEX 2022 exhibition. The platform allows you to quickly find a performer for any task that requires the use of a UAV. The exhibition is held on February 21-23 in Abu Dhabi.

The main commercial product of the platform is a marketplace, with the help of which customers will be able to find qualified performers for any task requiring the use of UAVs, and pilots – a stream of orders for their services. The FlyMarket intelligent service will be able to inform pilots about orders and will allow them to conclude contracts for any flight missions.

“Thanks to its own scientific developments, the company plans to create a highly competitive international product for flying unmanned aerial vehicles in various cities and invites everyone interested in promoting their drones and infrastructure for various types of business missions to test the system. We see great interest in our development from foreign customers. So, during the exhibition in Abu Dhabi, our stand was visited by the UAE Minister of State, His Excellency Mohammed bin Ahmed Al-Bovardi,” said Nikita Danilov, CEO of Fly Drone.

Also at the UMEX 2022 exhibition, the Fly Drone company presented its new product – “Safe Urban Airspace”. This system allows you to identify a drone using dual surveillance from radars, track the UAV flight online, and also using flight plans, identify the intruder of airspace. The product can be implemented as an independent monitoring center or integrated into the control centers of a city or region.