Many years ago , there came a movie called, “ The
Cranes are Flying “
That expression in the movie was all about the joy of a
person, when a long war ends and the sky is once again filled with flying
cranes, heralding the return of peace
Following news will bring ( somewhat ) similar joy to
the hearts of Drone Manufacturers of our country :
Nearly
70 % of Indian Airspace now open for compliant drones ,
via Digital Sky
Extract :
Nearly 70% of India’s airspace has
been greenlit for compliant drones to fly in, as of August 15, said Amber
Dubey,
joint
secretary at the Civil Aviation Ministry, and head of the drones division.
Drones compliant with the “ no permission, no takeoff
” (NPNT) protocol will be able to fly in airspaces demarcated as green ( free
airspace ) and yellow zones ( controlled airspace ).
With this, NPNT compliant drones will
be able to seek automatic clearance from the Digital Sky
portal to fly over allowed airspaces, as
the platform gears up for its phase one launch on October 2, nearly two years after being first imagined.
Once live, the platform will
Ø integrate with other government entities,
Ø allow management of
airspace workflows,
Ø plan drone flights,
and
Ø log post-flight data submission,
among other things.
IT services company, Happiest Minds has been tasked with developing the Digital Sky platform.
As per data maintained by the Digital
Sky platform, a total of 31 drones have been granted a Unique
Identification Number (UIN), which is akin to a license plate for NPNT
compliant drones.
In contrast, over 20,000 drones have
been granted a
Drone Acknowledgement
Number, which is given to legacy drones that are not compliant with the
NPNT protocol.
It remains to be seen whether legacy
drones, a majority of which are made by China’s DJI, will still be allowed to
fly once the Digital Sky platform is fully functional.
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MY PAST BLOGS/ E MAILS ON
THIS TOPIC :
Drone – a – Charya
……………………………………………………………………….[ 02
Sept 2018 ]
Extract :
Drone Federation of India [ info@dronefederation.in / http://dronefederation.in/ ]
to invite comments from all the stakeholders on my following
suggestions by publishing on their respective web sites :
# Just like today car manufacturers stamp , CAR
ENGINE NUMBER and CAR CHASIS
NUMBER , each drone (
coming out from the manufacturer’s factory ) , will have a
UNIQUE ,
“ Drone Number “ ( which , manufacturer would obtain online from the
web site of the Drone Regulator by registering each
“ Model “being shipped out )
# Each drone would be embedded with GPS and Internet Connection ( Internet of
Things ) and will confirm to the (
planned ) protocol of the ( proposed ) National
Trusts Centre for “ Machine-to-Machine “ communication / certification , in
respect
of “ Security by Design “
This will ensure that no drone can take to sky unless the owner logs into the web
site of the Drone
Regulator ( using a Mobile App ), and files its FLIGHT PLAN /
LOCATION / DURATION / HEIGHT / DRONE CATEGORY
/ PURPOSE etc and the
Regulator Web site grants clearance for take off
# Web site of the Drone Regulator will continuously track / monitor the
flight of
each and every drone ( all over
India ) on a monitor screen ( similar to tracking
of Airplanes in an Air Traffic
Control ( ATC ) room . Constant contact is the key !
Call this : Drone – A – Charya [ Drone Traffic Controller
- DTC ]
Controllers ( sitting in DTC )
will have facility to immediately “ Ground /
Immobilize
“ any drone at any time , if security is about to be compromised or if
any drone is flying outside of its
“ Geo Fence “
Context :
# One real serious concern is with regard to
thousands of drones flying all over the
sky of a metropolis and colliding with one another
I urge the ( proposed ) National Trust Centre , to develop a software and make it
mandatory for all drone
manufacturers to pre-install this software into the drones
, before shipping out .
This is
described at :
This condition will require all drone
manufacturers ( local and foreign ) , to give an
appropriate “ Undertaking “ to the Drone
Regulator
.
Failure to give such
an undertaking will ensure that such drones are grounded /
confiscated !
Permission will not be granted to
manufacturers of drones meant for war-like
activities ( dropping of bombs etc )
# Frequent violation of the Flight Rules , should lead to “ Black-listing “ of any
particular drone and it should be
“ immobilized “ ( for varying periods , depending
upon the frequency / severity of
violation )
Context :
After all, many elements of “ Traffic Control
“ on the roads , are also relevant to
traffic control in the Sky ( especially
when , say, 10 milion drones are flying )
# Drone Regulator should announce clear rules
in respect of :
· Insurance [ crashing / hurting /
damaging ]
· Scraping / re-selling / transfer /
gifting of drones
· Registration by new buyer
# Registration
Form ( filled online through mobile app ) should require following data :
Ø Buyer
category ( Individual / Commercial Company / Organizations etc )
> Aadhar No / PAN No / Mobile No
# Since most drones would be
deployed by E Commerce companies for delivering of
goods, govt may
consider “ pre-installing “ ( in the mobile app ), an ADDRESS
MAP , based on the technology
developed by
- which will
enable better traffic
control based on TRAFFIC DENSITY on different locations ,
apart from ensuring
precise delivery to 3 meter x 3 meter squares of India’s land
# There will be many
applications in which drone-mounted SENSORS ( including
cameras
/ mikes etc ) will be collecting / compiling , “ Personal / Private “ data of
persons
or things ( eg : Photos / Videos / Images etc )
Strict
law must be enacted that the owners of the drones cannot sell / share /
transfer
such data to any third party other than a party which has “ contracted “ for
such
data collection / compilation
A very
important “ Security Feature “ must ensure that the device ( drone ) by itself
on
its own , does not transmit any data to the drone manufacturer nor to any
owner
/ licensee of an Operating System ( eg : Google’s Android / Apple’s iOS etc )
All
Mobile Apps which interact with a drone hardware or its embedded software (
including
Drone Operating System ), will need to be approved by Drone regulator
All
such “ Data Collection Contracts “
would require prior registration with the Drone
Regulator
, providing full details of the contract ( especially the nature of the data )
# Drone
Policy must take into account that within the next 5 years , there will be in
our
skies , “ Person Carrying Vehicles “ which may fall short of being classified
as “
Aircraft
“ .
Such vehicles must be classified as “ Drones “ and be subject to Drone
Policy (
eg : Uber Lite aerial taxies )
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hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 19 Aug
2020
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